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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
John Whatmore of Worcester, transported to New South Wales in 1829
To contemporaries, the punishments meted out by English courts in the early nineteenth century appear merciless and out of all proportion to the crimes committed. Many of the so-called ‘crimes’ were most probably acts of desperation by starving and destitute people. An earlier post told the story of James Watmore of Detton Mill, Neen Savage […]
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