Showing Transportees from Gloucestershire to Australia, 1783-1842 by Irene Wyatt

The system of transporting convicts was employed from the end of the seventeenth century as a means of supplying labour for the plantations of the West indies and the southern American colonies. But the most consistent and the important feature of transportation was its use after the American revolution to colonize Australia from 1788 to 1869. This volume collects material about convicts sentenced in the quarter sessions for the city and county of Gloucester and at Tewkesbury borough sessions between 1783 and 1841, and subsequently transported to Australia.