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Convict name: Towns, Martha.

name_alias_1: Metcalf, Betty (Alias)

sentence_details:
Convicted at Lancaster Assizes for a term of life on 25 March 1815.

vessel: Lord Melville

date_of_departure: August 1816.

place_of_arrival: New South Wales.

source:
Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 274

title:
Martha Towns, one of 101 convicts transported on the Lord Melville, August 1816.

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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