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British convict transportation O to Z
- Last name:
- Sceours
- First name:
- John
- Place of conviction:
- Wilts Assizes
- Alias names:
- Scours (Alias)
- Sentence details:
- Convicted at Wilts Assizes for a term of life on 13 March 1802
- Vessel:
- HMS Calcutta
- Departure date:
- February 1803
- Arrival place:
- (Port Phillip) New South Wales (transferred to Van Diemens Land 1804)
- Publication:
- John Sceours, one of 292 convicts transported on the (HMS) Calcutta, February 1803
- Notes:
- 140 of these convicts previously had been trans-shipped to Gibraltar where they subsequently embarked
- Source:
- British convict transportation registers and others