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Mon 08 Aug 2010Bonnet ceremony remembers women convicts transported to Australia
THE GREAT grandson of a young Irish woman who was transported to Australia after she was convicted of stealing was among the members of the public who gathered yesterday for a memorial service for the thousands of women who were transported out of Ireland and Britain to Australia.
The Roses from the Heart bonnet project is a unique memorial to the 25,566 convict women transported from 1788 to 1853.
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