As I have written a book about my Seabrook ancestors, Crossing the seas to build a future , I have to admit to not continuing my research with the family. However, since I'm on holidays I have time to spend on Trove and have decided to see what other things I can discover about the Seabrooks and Whites in Tasmania. Previous research involved manual searching of newspapers. Henry William Seabrook and his brother-in-law Thomas White were at one stage in a building partnership in Hobart. These posts that I discovered relate to Mark Smith, an assigned servant or prisoner on loan. Hobart Town Police Report, Colonial Times 9 June 1840, p. 7 Mark Smith, a prisoner on loan, to Messrs. Seabrook and White, was charged by Mr. White with felony, in having on Saturday night last, picked up a £5 note, his property, which he had lost, and appropriated the same to his own use. He was remanded. The man acknowledged to Mr. White, in the presence of witnesses, that he had ...