The Metropolis

Attention Australians: discover what your no good convict forefather did to get deported

Mike Pollitt | Tuesday 25 October, 2011 16:45

Ever wonder what foul deed caused your great great grandaddy to be banished from this pure and innocent isle? Well, there’s a new online historical resource at the Connected Histories site which might help.

It lets you search a big deportations list and the records of trials from the Old Bailey along side each other, and you can work it out from there. So if you know the right name, and their crime was bad enough or Londony enough to be tried at the Old Bailey, the rest is pretty easy. An example search, of one James Paul who stole some petticoats and a clock in 1830 and got sent to New South Wales, is here It’s a little fiddly, but might well be worth it.

To get you started, here are all the deported Warnes.

Source: Old Bailey Online Photo: Wikipedia

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