DomainMonograph or Collective Volume
TitleBermuda Dick : the true story of Forest of Dean convicts ...
AuthorKear, Averil
Publication Date2002
PublisherLightmoor Press
Place Of PublicationLydney
Number Of Pages160 p.
Era Covered1200 — 1901
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1899889086
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NotesA brief history of the Kear family in the Forest of Dean from the 13th century; life in the forest around 1850, the background of the men involved in the crime (including Richard Kear) against an Irish woman called Mary McCarthy; their imprisonment and trial; life in British gaols before the transportation; the voyage; imprisonment in Bermuda and the eventual return to Britain of some of the men.
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