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Transportation to Australia of Irish women and children as convicts. 1 year 46 weeks ago

Transportation to Australia of Irish women and children as convicts.
In 1848, there were 171 female prisoners and their children who left the Grangegorman Female Penitentiary in Stoneybatter and boarded the convict ship the ‘John Calvin.’
All women and children prisoners from around Ireland who were sentenced to transportation to Australia went to this Dublin prison first. Grangegorman Female Penitentiary in Rathdown Road, Stoneybatter Dublin 7. received .
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