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Convict name: Hesketh, James.

sentence_details:
Convicted at Lancaster, Liverpool Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 21 October 1833.

vessel: Bengal Merchant

date_of_departure: 27 September 1834.

place_of_arrival: New South Wales.

source:
Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 436

title:
James Hesketh, one of 270 convicts transported on the Bengal Merchant, 27 September 1834.

publication_details:
Canberra [A.C.T.] :Australian Joint Copying Project, [1948-1990]

original_version_note:
This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).

topical_subject_heading: Convicts--Australia--Registers.

neographic_subject_heading: Australia--Genealogy.

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