FROM THE ARCHIVES: How a pint-sized petty thief faced being transported Down Under with rapists and robbers

There is a woman called Jane Ann Robertson born in the same year admitted to a London workhouse ... goods yard. Such was her crime she was given 10 years’ transportation. Just before Jean Ann Robertson’s appearance, James Thomson of St Andrews was ...

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Published: Wed 19th Dec 2018 01:03 PM