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Transportation of 280 named male convicts from Great Britain to Western Australia...
Catalogue reference: TS 18/1318
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This record is about the Transportation of 280 named male convicts from Great Britain to Western Australia... dating from 1858 in the series Treasury Solicitor: General Series Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1858
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Transportation of 280 named male convicts from Great Britain to Western Australia by the convict ship Edwin Fox: contract dated 9 August 1858
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Treasury Solicitor: General Series Papers
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