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The Snelson DataBase & Armory includes references from sources at St Catherine’s House in London during 1969-1971 and during my activity here in Sydney at The Society of Australian Genealogists where I served on the Council for many years – and was the a founder (along with Max Carrick and Phil Young) of the Sydney Dead Persons Society.

Much knowledge was gleaned from parish registers of births, deaths, marriages, christenings and burials. I also spent some time with the IGI fiche (remember them).

Another fruitful source was found in chartularies, tithe maps, land records, wills and other records.

I have wasted more time than I care to remember with the dead than with the living, poring over census records, scrutinising transportation and shipping lists, groveling around churchyards trying to decypher monument inscriptions, looking at land records and corresponding with the guild and the College of Heralds … when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were still in short pants.

• [S1008] Letter from Richard James Snelson dated 6 December 1993
• [S1018] Peter Kraushaar, Peter Kraushaar, Letter 20 March 1994
• [S1019] Edward Alec Abbott Snelson, Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, Source Element: 28 September 1933
• [S1039] The Office of Greer Garson, Letter from Greer Garson, June 1994
• [S1052] National Commercial Directory for the Counties of Chester, Cumberland, Durham and Lancaster
• [S1057] Short Title Catalogue, Source Element: Eighteen Sermons; British Library, 1774, , 3
• [S1058] Catalogue of all such persons deceased whom I have known in their lifetime ..... from MDCXXVIII., British Museum, Volume: Sloane 886
  Source Element: R4-11065
• [S1072] Burial of Roger Snelson, Islington, 1647, Source Element: Alan Simkins and Valerie Scadeng, September 13 1994, Roger Snelson, 2:254/231.10 and 2:254/231.11
• [S1076] Karen Hughes, Ben Walters
• [S1078] Boyd's Inhabitants of London
• [S1081] William Kent, Encyclopaedia of London
• [S1154] General Muster of NSW - Thomas Nelson, Sydney - 1814, Source Element: [BO:In 1822 there is an entry A13953 for Mary McMarty, free by servitude, from the ship "Surprize", sentenced to 7 tears transportation, being the wife of Thomas Nelson, Windsor ":BO]; "5163 S Thomas Nelson Earl Spencer C Off Stores To Mr. Lord"; General Muster Of NSW 1814, , , State Library Of NSW - Family History Section, The "S" means resides at Sydney; the "C' means Convict.
  Memo: Comments: [BO:In 1822 there is an entry A13953 for Mary McMarty, free by servitude, from the ship "Surprize", sentenced to 7 tears transportation, being the wife of Thomas Nelson, Windsor ":BO]
• [S1155] Convict Muster - Thomas Snelson, Bathurst - 1837
• [S1156] Convict Indent - Thomas Snelson, Ship "Earl Spencer" - 1813, Source Element: Thomas Snelson, Age 26, Native Place Stafford, Trade Locksmith, Tried at Stafford Assizes on 12 March 1812, Sentenced to Life Imprisonment, Height 5' 51/2", complexion Sallow, Hair Dark Brown, Eyes Hazel, Ticket of Leave 30/714, Left England 2 Jun 1813 arriving 9 Oct 1813.; AO NSW ref 4/4004, Reel 393
• [S1157] Ticket of Leave - Thomas Snelson, Bathurst - 1830, Source Element: The Bathurst Bench made the recommendation for the granting of the ToL #30/714. Card Index 1810-14, Index 1824-27 ( COD 470, F752 ), T/L butts.; AO NSW ref 4/4076, # 914
• [S1158] Register of Recommendations - Thomas Snelson, Condtional Pardons - 1838, Source Element: CPs 1826-46, Index F824, 828 pg no 106 Fiche 826; AO NSW 4/4437, # 777
• [S1159] Conditional Pardon - Thomas Snelson, Sydney - 1838-40, Source Element: Conditional Pardon, # 39/426 is actually signed by George Gipps and dated 1 November 1838. Governor Gipps then certifies " that Her Majesty's gracious approbation and allowance of the conditional pardon has been sighted to me by the Secretary of State for the Colonies on 26 July 1839 ", and the entry made in the records on 1st January 1840. So the actual date of effect is hard to see.
• [S1160] Criminal Register - Thomas Snelson, PRO Reel 2755, Source Element: AO NSW, PRO 2755
• [S1194] Tasmanian Convicts, Kiama FHS
• [S1196] Hazel Appleby ( nee Fox ), Letter from Hazel Appleby ( Fox ), Dated 16 November 1995, Source Element: 4 Bray Road, Buddicombe Park, Saltney, Chester, CH4 8DL
• [S1197] Wills at Chester, Memo: (1) James Snelson of Lower Wthington, Yeoman
  
  (2) Mary Snelson of Allostock, Widow
  
  (3) Thomas Snelson of Broken Cross, Yeoman
  
  (4) John Snelson of Manley, Yeoman ( Admon )
  
  (5) Thomas Snelson of Somerford-cum-Radnor, ( Admon )
  
  (6) Edmund Snels
• [S1224] Chester St. Mary Baptisms 1820-1831, mf 98/2 & 3