Publications | Down Survey | 1999 Issue Contents

Frontispiece

Jean Walton, seated left, visited Down County Museum from her home in Australia in 1996, in pursuit of ancestral research. We were able to join her quest, and in 1999 she returned with other members of her family to show them the Cell Block of the old County Gaol, now the Museum, from which their ancestor John Kirk, parish clerk of lnch, was transported to New South Wales in 1822, for 'being in possession of a stolen cow'. The family are gathered round our replica of the convict cart by which prisoners were conveyed to the ports for removal to the penal colonies.