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Fine. 8vo. 199pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, tables, bw ills. Or card. Minor foxing to prelims and top edge. The story of two Irish convicts (Stephen Howard of Limerick and Ellen Lydon of North Galway) transported to Tasmania where they were married in 1854. Most of the book describes in great detail the conditions in which they lived in Ireland, at their trials, en route to Van Diemen's Land, as convicts and as pardoned convicts making a new life for themselves in their new homeland. The final chapter charts the fortune of their family in the Tasmanian west coast mining industry.
