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British convict transportation O to Z
- Last name:
- Shearer
- First name:
- John
- Place of conviction:
- Scotland, Glasgow Court of Justiciary
- Alias names:
- Sentence details:
- Convicted at Scotland, Glasgow Court of Justiciary for a term of 7 years on 01 October 1844 Exile
- Vessel:
- Thomas Arbuthnot
- Departure date:
- 06 January 1847
- Arrival place:
- Van Diemen's Land (convicts disembarked at Port Phillip, not Van Diemen's Land)
- Publication:
- John Shearer, one of 289 convicts transported on the Thomas Arbuthnot, 06 January 1847
- Notes:
- 140 of these convicts previously had been trans-shipped to Gibraltar where they subsequently embarked
- Source:
- British convict transportation registers and others