John Owen Smith
Echoes of Home: The Story of Ellen, the Transported Daughter of the Trumpeter of Selborne, Hampshire
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9781873855560
ISBN13:
9781873855560
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Echoes of Home: The Story of Ellen, the Transported Daughter of the Trumpeter of Selborne, Hampshire
$16.22
n the mid-nineteenth century men, women and even children were being transported to other British Colonies for crimes as diverse as stealing a loaf of bread and murder. In 1831, men from the village of Selborne in Hampshire were shipped off to Australia for their part in the Swing riots, and eighteen years later, in 1849, another resident followed. Ellen Heath was sentenced to death for attempting to poison her husband. This was reduced to transportation for life, but how harsh was her life to be, sent away with her baby daughter from family and the only life she knew? This is her story ...
| Author: Jean Newland |
| Publisher: John Owen Smith |
| Publication Date: Jan 24, 2008 |
| Number of Pages: 284 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1873855567 |
| ISBN-13: 9781873855560 |
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