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British convict transportation H to N

Last name:
Higgins
First name:
Thomas
Place of conviction:
Staffordshire Stafford Quarter Sessions
Alias names:
Sentence details:
Convicted at Staffordshire Stafford Quarter Sessions for a term of 7 years on 02 July 1844
Vessel:
Maitland
Departure date:
22 June 1846
Arrival place:
Van Diemen's Land (The convicts disembarked at Port Phillip and not Van Diemen's Land)
Publication:
Thomas Higgins, one of 299 convicts transported on the Maitland, 22 June 1846
Notes:
160 convicts disembarked at Gibraltar and another 157 embarked giving a complement of 277 convicts transported from Gibraltar to Western Australia
Source:
British convict transportation registers and others