Bound For Australia: A Guide To The Records Of Transported Convicts And Early Settlers

Author: David T. Hawkings

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  • : 01 June 2012
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Description

Bound for Australia is the essential guide to the records kept in Britain of those who were sent there as punishment or who went to start a new life, and will be an invaluable tool for any family historian who discovers an ancestor amongst their number and who wants to trace their antipodean relatives.

Author description

DAVID T. HAWKINGS has spent more than forty years researching family history. He created the television series Find Your Family, worked on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists and was founder chairman of the West Middlesex Family History Society. He is also the author of Railway Ancestors, Criminal Ancestors and Pauper Ancestors. He lives in Taunton.