[THURLEYONLINE]Two of the six THURLEY convicts (James and William) were transported to Van Diemen's Land (VDL) and the other four to New South Wales.
Of the two VDL convicts only James Thurley married and had children. William (James's brother) was a hopeless drunk that asked permission to be married twice but his convict records indicate that he was back behind bars for the equivalent of todays "drunk and disorderly" the day after his formal requests were lodged. On his convict records William was described as "bad in all ways". He died, aged 45, from "softening of the brain".
The four New South Wales convicts (William, Daniel, Joseph and Joseph) remain a mystery to this day. Even taking into the account the fact that these men were basically illiterate, that many convict records do not exist today and even the fact that they might have wanted to disguise their convict past, it is hard to believe that absolutely nothing can be found to determine if these men produced descendants.
Other than a few assignment records to acknowledge their existence, nothing else has been found on any of them to date.
One of the four convicts, Joseph, was a brother of James, William and John. The other three were cousins or uncles of the VDL THURLEYs.