Forced Removal of Surplus Population
A Study of Convict Transportation
by Peter K. B. Edwards
A detailed study of Convict Transportation and the political pressures behind it, examining Crime, Trial, Conviction and Sentencing, Hulks of the Southern Ports, Hired Convict Transports … through to Life in New South Wales and possible freedom. Researched from the official records of a group of Lancashire convicts, the Lancaster Ninety-One, many of whom were transported on convict ships, which arrived in Australia in 1816 and 1817: Atlas III, Elizabeth I(1), Fame, Larkins (1), Lord Eldon, Lord Melville I(1), Ocean I, Surrey I(2), Shipley (1)