From Wiltshire, indent description on arrival at Sydney

William Vines arrived "Planter", 15 Oct 1832, No. 2241/172
Standing No. 40/2719
Aged 47, could not read or write, Protestant, married with two children (thought to be both female from another source.)
Occupation: Ploughman & Milks
Native Place: Wiltshire

Crime: Burglary
Trial: Salisbury, 3 March, 1832
Sentence: LIFE [no previous convictions]

Description: 5' 8"; complexion dark ruddy; hair brown with grey; eyes hazel; lost a front tooth left side upper jaw; 4th & little finger of right hand contracted [accident to  his hand?]

Certificate of Freedom: 49/652 15 Feb, 1849
There was no record  of William's wife and children in Australia [possibly adults at time of sentencing]. Not named in the lists of families who came as assisted migrants to join their loved ones, no evidence of  applying to marry in the Colony.

There are two possible deaths for William Vines on the NSW BDM; one in 1860, with no mention of his parents, and one in 1858 at Bathurst, son of William and Sena. On IGI, there is a William christened 4 May, 1783 in Bremhill, son of Daniel and Elizabeth who may fit the bill as this William would have been born around that time.

This is typical of the brutality of treatment of many convicts: separation from family for life for desparate attempts to obtain the necessities of living. The 1820s and 1830s were particularly hard times, in the wake of economic problems  following the Napoleonic Wars, and the bad epidemics at that time. These references on line well describe the times.
English Farming Past and Present 1912  especially Chapter 15
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Peter Vines arrived "Aurora", 3 Nov.,1833, No.2906/278

Aged 20, reads and writes, Protestant, single
Occupation:Baker, Labourer & Carter
Native Place: Wiltshire

Crime: Pig Stealing
Trial: Wiltshire, 2 March, 1833
Sentence: 7 years [Previous convictions - 2 months]

Description:5' 5 3/4"; complexion brown & freckled; hair brown; eyes brown; front upper teeth projecting: scar top of forehead; raised scar inside top of little finger of left hand.

Certificate of Freedom: ? 41/561, no date given -not sure of this.
Peter must have completed his sentence a couple of years before he married Catherine Riley, daughter of Edward Riley and Rosan, on the 19th Dec, 1842 at St. Andrews in Sydney. I think he died in 1887 at Grenfell [probably living with one of his children, as Catherine had died in 1876 in Dubbo]. Peter's parents were given as Thomas and Sophia.

Peter was typical of many of the younger convicts, uneducated, unemployed and irresponsible with time on their hands, with a generation-gap attitude to direction by their elders. It is thought that Peters mother died when he was young and that he was passed between his elder siblings. 

Peter & Catherine had at least six children:
Sophia R.[? Rosan], b. abt 1844, d.1902 at Forbes. She married John Byrne at Bathurst in 1864.
William b. 1846 d. ?1860
Edward Joseph b. 1848, d. 1915 at Granville. He married Susannah Sherman at Bathurst in 1872. This family seems to have stayed in the Granville/Parramatta area.
Peter b 1851 d ?  . He married Mary Ellen Carmody at Bathurst in 1873. They had most of their children in St. Leonards, Sydney. I have more to do on this family, but so far I have found one son's death in Qld
Robert b. 1854 d. 1915 Parramatta. He married Mary Jane Morris in St. Leonards, Sydney in 1886. Some of their children were born in Waterloo Sydney and one son married in St. Peters in 1920, so I presume the family stayed in the Sydney area.
Catherine b. 1860 d. ? She may have married a Von.
(Thanks to Jenny)

Benjamin Vines arrived "Strathfieldsaye", 15 June 1836, No. 2241/172 

Standing No.36/1172
Aged 20, reads & writes, Protestant, single
Occupation: Waterman
Native Place: Norfolk

Crime: Stealing Cloth
Trial: Central Criminal Court, 11 Sept,1835
Sentence: 14 years [no previous convictions]

Description: 5' 6"; complexion dark ruddy, pockpitted & freckled; hair dark brown; eyes grey; nose thick & short; three brown moles on breast; mermaid inside lower right arm; small wart back of middle finger.

Benjamin got his Ticket of Leave [No. 44/1514] before 21 Jan, 1846, when he married another convict, Judith Sheahan, who came on the "Margaret". He was 29 and "free" and she was 27 when they were married by the Rev. Woodward at St. Thomas' Church of England, Port Macquarie. 
I can't find any children for them so far. 
Benjamin died at Sofala, aged 54 in 1869, but the names of his parents were not mentioned.

Being from Norfolk Benjamin was very probably unrelated to the Wiltshire Vines.
The sentence of 14 years exile was certainly a rigourous punishment on a child. He was a fairly big kid at 5ft 6in, so perhaps was also cheeky. Sounds like he answered the judge back and had the sentence doubled!