Chells of England
voi_brown
Hi I have been researching the family name CHELL.It is unusual name from England. Sometimes spelt CHEAL or CHELLE. I have managed to trace the family of CHELL back to early 1700.
Nathaniel CHELL is the main ancestor of the family CHELL, from Staffordshire.His decesendants have had large families with 10 or more children in each family, in each generation.
The most interesting family member is Richard CHELL born 1776 and was sent to Australia as a convict in 1789, for stealing some items of clothing. Apparently he got 7yrs for the crime. Not sure what happened to him after he completed his sentence. Its possible he returned to England, cannot find any records to support this. If anyone is fimilar with these records (convict - settlers?) I would appreciate your help. Voi
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allycat on 2010-06-18 00:55:08Dear Voi, Hello there. I've only done a little bit of looking for your ancestor, haven't unearthed much yet. I have four direct line ancestors who were convicts transported to Australia.
Generally, even after a term of seven years when they received their Ticket of Leave/granted freedom they didn't go back to the mother country because of various reasons like not enough money, or their families followed to Australia.
Perhaps you could join up as a new user of Rootschat, free site, scroll down to their 'Australia' board and post some lookup requests. No doubt more Aussies are descended from your ancestor.
Best wishes,
Alison from QLD.
voi_brown on 2010-06-18 05:49:47thanks Alison
I will give it a look