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Member Since: March 2011 Posts: 18 490 Send Message	JoyLouise	Report	13 Aug 2016 10:22
	It was only when America 'kicked off' about this that our government began to send its 'undesirables' to Oz big-time. Undesirables included murderers, thieves, vagabonds etc. If the powers-that-be did not like the 'cut' of you, whatever you'd done, then it was 'off to the colonies'. If you were Irish the chances of deportation were greater. It often paid to be really pretty. ;-)
	Researching: Mum's Azalea.
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 2 736 Send Message	TessAkaBridgetTheFidget	Report	12 Aug 2016 21:26
	Will check on Ancestry to see if I can find any of my lot on the list. Have previously found some that were sent to prison, probably more as a result of poverty rather than wickedness.
	Researching: Woodhouse and Trilloe from Herefordshire; Lockyear and Date from Somerset, Thomas and Edwards from Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, also Argyll, Tipperary, Limerick, Cork
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 9 736 Send Message	MR_MAGOO	Report	12 Aug 2016 20:47
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 9 736 Send Message	Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. New on Ancestry. Between 1614 and 1775 more than 50,000 English men, women, and children were sentenced to be deported to the American colonies for crimes ranging from the theft of a handkerchief to bigamy or highway robbery.