tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684123802714909043.post1826755751407714589..comments2024-03-26T14:15:11.144+00:00Comments on Dave's Book Blog: "The Policeman and the brothel" by Theodore Dalrympledajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11692913901619410684noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684123802714909043.post-62986841683457038832016-04-10T21:24:47.737+01:002016-04-10T21:24:47.737+01:00It may not seem like the stories warranted such a ...It may not seem like the stories warranted such a large book, but for myself, one of the literally hundreds of descendants of Thomas Nicolle, one of the transportee's in the book, this is a doorway into the part of our family history we had little knowledge of, after all, Thomas was semi illiterate, and as he was a Convict in Tasmania, his past was never spoken about by his descendants. Personally, we would have liked the book to have been a series so we could have learnt more about his past and the place he came from. On a sub note, one of Thomas' descendants married one of the prostitutes descendants years later in Tasmania.NO-ONE-REALLYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947420890812291692noreply@blogger.com