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Bondage, Mr. Coldham closed the remaining gaps. Altogether there are some 9,000 new and amended records in this important new work, which is arranged and annotated in the same way as the parent volume. To the original list of 50,000 records, these additions come as a windfall, arising from the availability of previously closed archival resources and the re-examination of conventional transportation records such as Assize Court records, Circuit Court records, and the quaintly-named Sheriffs' Cravings, to which can be added newspapers and printed memoirs.
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Between 1614 and 1775 more than 50,000 English men, women, and children were sentenced to be deported to the
American colonies for crimes ranging from the theft of a handkerchief to bigamy or highway robbery and sold as indentured servants for from 7 to 14 years depending upon the crime against the
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British Foreign Office and was posted to the British embassy in Belgrade 1954–1956. He subsequently worked at the Central Office of Information (COI) in London 1956-1987. In retirement he
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The addition of 9,000 records to the canon makes this the most important list of ships' passengers to be published in years. Whether as a list of additions or corrections, this new work is an indispensable tool in the researcher's arsenal, and anyone using the parent volume and supplement cannot
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Emigrants in Bondage published in 1988 acknowledged that there were some notable omissions from the list of transported felons then printed, which remained to be researched and remedied. The Supplement of 1992 began to supply the omissions, but with the publication of More
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possibly ignore this volume. Questions about the peopling of colonial
America come readily to mind when looking at a book like this—questions about ancestors, too—and the answers found here are both challenging and surprising.
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Frederick Wilson Coldham and Grace Clara Cutler. He later married Paulette Nagle (1928–2012 ) on 4 July 1953 in Purley, Surrey, England and had four children. He wrote over 26 books and multiple
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