A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess RoyalThe story of 100 women convicts transported together in 1829 from England to Australia--to become the unwitting and unwilling pioneers of a new land. Portrays the personalities and circumstances of the women, the conditions under which they served their sentences, and the course of their life after prison. Acidic paper. Available in North America from ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Page 7
... Bulwell , and also Arnold where the Watsons subsequently lived , were at the heart of the framework knitting industry and its agitation for improved conditions and the main- tenance of standards . " By 1817 the protest movement on both ...
... Bulwell , and also Arnold where the Watsons subsequently lived , were at the heart of the framework knitting industry and its agitation for improved conditions and the main- tenance of standards . " By 1817 the protest movement on both ...
Page 237
... Bulwell Registers the following all seem to be their children : Maria ( 1834 ) , Elizabeth ( 1835 ) , Hannah ( 1839 ) , daughters of Emmanuel and Hannah Birkin , Bulwell . Thomas ( 1838 ) , Edmund ( 1841 ) , Sarah Ann ( 1842 ) ...
... Bulwell Registers the following all seem to be their children : Maria ( 1834 ) , Elizabeth ( 1835 ) , Hannah ( 1839 ) , daughters of Emmanuel and Hannah Birkin , Bulwell . Thomas ( 1838 ) , Edmund ( 1841 ) , Sarah Ann ( 1842 ) ...
Page 238
... Bulwell , father Charles Kirk , warper , married Mary Povey , widow , of Bulwell , father Edward Watson , FWK . Bulwell Parish Register , op . cit . 8 Edwin Povey's birth , op . cit . Sarah , daughter of William and Mary Kirk , Bulwell ...
... Bulwell , father Charles Kirk , warper , married Mary Povey , widow , of Bulwell , father Edward Watson , FWK . Bulwell Parish Register , op . cit . 8 Edwin Povey's birth , op . cit . Sarah , daughter of William and Mary Kirk , Bulwell ...
Contents
Pity Our Distress | 6 |
The Full Penalty of the Law | 15 |
Transported Beyond the Seas | 24 |
Copyright | |
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A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal Babette Smith Limited preview - 2008 |
A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal Babette Smith No preview available - 2005 |
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