Convict transportation

10 Sep 1823 - escapee re-transported to NSW
On the 10th of September 1823 Susan Courtney was tried in England for returning from transportation.

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In the 21st century we are accustomed to thinking of imprisonment as one of the more obvious forms of punishment for convicted criminals. This was not so in the past.
!['Margaret stealing the horse' [Margaret Catchpole]](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/03/89a390f0a8b8414f8ab61e222da8604d.jpg)
The remarkable Margaret Catchpole
A Suffolk countrywoman turned Hawkesbury midwife; twice sentenced to death and twice reprieved; transported to New South Wales in 1801 and transformed after her death into a romantic literary heroine