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Transportation to New South Wales
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R. Fred Roberts
Sarah Evans, confronted with the evidence, confessed to her crime and was sentenced to transportation.
In fact she was held in Ruthin Gaol, under appalling conditions, for almost five years before being taken to the prison ship at Gravesend for the horrific voyage to New South Wales.
Convicts transported to New South Wales or to Van Diemen's Land had little or no hope of ever returning to Wales on the expiry of their sentences, this being especially true of women. Sarah was therefore taken away never to see her husband and family again for what today would be regarded as a petty crime meriting perhaps a fine or a suspended sentence.
Ruthin Gaol
First published: Abergele Field Club and Historical Society Review No.12 | 1993