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From: "Ray Edmunds" <>
Subject: Re: [Mon] murder and transportation
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:28:53 +1000
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Hi,
They were transported for more than the clichés of stealing a loaf of bread
and poaching. People were sentenced to be hung for lesser crimes than
murder.,but these were frequently commuted to 'transportation' for specific
periods e.g 14 or 15 years or life and at usually 2/3 of the sentence, if
their behaviour was good, they got a Conditional Pardon and conditional on
never returning to the UK under pain of death. The foregoing is very much a
simplification. It is a rather complex subject with many, many changes in
policy.
Ray
Queensland


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Macey" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Mon] murder and transportation


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "COLIN PARLOR" <>
>
> > Whilst all these apocryphal stories tend to have some basis of fact, I
can
> > assure you that murder was NOT punished by transportation but by
hanging,
> so
> > either the ghillie lived, or your ancestor hanged. Transportation was
for
> > shooting rabbits.
>
> not always because I have an ancestor who, according to the court records
> from the Central Criminal Court, London, was "Feloniously Killed and
Slayed"
> and the men who were convicted of the crime were sentenced to six months
> hard labour.
> I have my own thoughts on why they received this sentence - it was 1842 -
> when there were children being transported for stealing bread but that's a
> whole different subject.
>
> Ann Macey
> in chilly Newport Gwent
>
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