Prisoners DOWN UNDER
Nov 13, 2020
3 minutes
nce America gained its independence in 1783, Britain could no longer deport its convicts there. However, British authorities still wanted to send criminals far away, and the decision was made to despatch them to Australia instead. Transportation to Australia became a common sentence handed down by the courts, and hence one method to identify transported convicts is to search British court records such as locally-held quarter sessions or the Old Bailey Online Various ‘HO series’ criminal registers at The National Archives (TNA) are also available on FindMyPast,
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