In the years between 1788 and 1868 a passage of eighty years, around eighty-thousand souls from predominantly the British Isles were convicted of crimes ranging from petty through to the more serious. Generally speaking the truly diabolical criminals did not find themselves transported to the colonies, rather their end was much more immediate and final. For those that were sent ‘beyond the seas’. Sentences ranged from seven years, fourteen years and life. Most would leave behind family and friends forever. Very few ever returned. Ten of these known people were ours.
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