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British convict transportation O to Z
- Last name:
- Sheard
- First name:
- John
- Place of conviction:
- Berks Assizes
- Alias names:
- Sentence details:
- Convicted at Berks Assizes for a term of 14 years on 24 February 1838
- Vessel:
- Portsea
- Departure date:
- 24 July 1838
- Arrival place:
- New South Wales
- Publication:
- John Sheard, one of 240 convicts transported on the Portsea, 24 July 1838
- Notes:
- 140 of these convicts previously had been trans-shipped to Gibraltar where they subsequently embarked
- Source:
- British convict transportation registers and others