Echoes of Home: The Story of Ellen, the Transported Daughter of the Trumpeter of Selborne, Hampshire by Newland, Jean

Echoes of Home: The Story of Ellen, the Transported Daughter of the Trumpeter of Selborne, Hampshire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781873855560)

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Echoes of Home: The Story of Ellen, the Transported Daughter of the Trumpeter of Selborne, Hampshire by Newland, Jean

Echoes of Home: The Story of Ellen, the Transported Daughter of the Trumpeter of Selborne, Hampshire

$13.50
Echoes of Home: The Story of Ellen, the Transported Daughter of the Trumpeter of Selborne, Hampshire by Newland, Jean

Echoes of Home: The Story of Ellen, the Transported Daughter of the Trumpeter of Selborne, Hampshire

$13.50
Format: Paperback
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n the mid-nineteenth century men, women and even children were being transported to other British Colonies for crimes as diverse as stealing a loaf of bread and murder. In 1831, men from the village of Selborne in Hampshire were shipped off to Australia for their part in the Swing riots, and eighteen years later, in 1849, another resident followed. Ellen Heath was sentenced to death for attempting to poison her husband. This was reduced to transportation for life, but how harsh was her life to be, sent away with her baby daughter from family and the only life she knew? This is her story ...

Author: Jean Newland
ISBN-10: 1873855567
ISBN-13: 9781873855560
Publisher: John Owen Smith
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2008
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.60d

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