Among the convicts that were transported to colonial Australia, there was a small group ... Effectively what they did is … steal time from [mostly] thieves to steal a continent." ...

They were sent with other convicts to Australia and they arrived in Sydney ... because it seems that the two did not have a happy marriage. He must have lived in Picton and in 1852 bought two ...

It was viewed as a suitable alternative to hanging. From 1787 onwards, convicts were sent to Australia, where they faced many years of hard labour. America had become independent from Britain in ...