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Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Ava is asked to dress up as an inspirational figure for her school assembly, but who should she choose? Granny suggests famous familiar figures such as Winifred Atwell, Mary Seacole, and Rosa Parks, and tells Ava all about their fascinating histories, but Ava's classmates have already claimed them--and she must choose someone else. But who? When Ava finds a mysterious old suitcase and Granny shares her own history, and how she came to England on the...
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"Historians tell us that a large percentage of the population of colonial Virginia and Maryland consisted of men and women who had been transported from Great Britain and Ireland for crimes ranging from bigamy to highway robbery. Given the unique role of transportation in the peopling of colonial America....Coldham has made it his task...to abstract from every surviving record the names and histories of all those sentenced in England and Ireland to...