Bound for Australia: A Guide to the Records of Transported Convicts and Early Settlers - Softcover

Hawkings, David T.

 
9780752460185: Bound for Australia: A Guide to the Records of Transported Convicts and Early Settlers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0752460188 ISBN 13: 9780752460185
Verlag: The History Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

From the arrival of the First Fleet in 1787, bringing almost 1,500 convicts and marines to establish a penal colony, to the end of transportation in 1868, approximately 165,000 criminals were sent from Britain to Australia as publishment for a range of crimes, most often for theft. Added to this were guards, administrators and free settlers, the latter increasing in number as the transported convicts decreased. Because of the vast distance involved, few returned, and the descendants of many of them live in Australia today. Completely revised and expanded to include new research, Bound for Australia is the essential guide to the records kept in Britain of those who were sent there as punishment or who went to start a new life and will be an invaluable tool for any family historian who discovers an ancestor amongst their number and wants to trace their antipodean relatives.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David T. Hawkings has spent more than 40 years researching family history. He created the television series Find Your Family, worked on the BBC&;s Who Do You Think You Are?, is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, and was founder chairman of the West Middlesex Family History Society. He is also the author of Railway Ancestors, Criminal Ancestors, and Pauper Ancestors. He lives in Taunton.

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Verlag
The History Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0752460188
ISBN 13 
9780752460185
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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