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Transported to New South Wales, Australia
« on: Tuesday 24 March 09 22:03 GMT (UK) »
The following names were transcribed from the 'Martyrs' Monument', Sighthill Cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland

"For their part in the 1820 Rising the following, originally sentenced to death
were transported to New South Wales, Australia and in 1835 were given a Royal Pardon"

JOHN ANDERSON, JOHN BARR, WILLIAM CLACKSON or CLARKSON, JAMES CLELLAND     
ANDREW DAWSON, ROBERT GRAY, ALEXANDER HART, ALEXANDER JOHNSON,
ALEXANDER LATIMER, THOMAS McCULLOCH, THOMAS McFARLANE, JOHN McMILLAN,
BENJAMIN MOIR, ALLAN MURCHIE, THOMAS PIKE or PINK, WILLIAM SMITH,
DAVID THOMPSON, ANDREW WHITE, JAMES WRIGHT.
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For more information on Sighthill Cemetery/Martyr's Monument, see: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/springburn/spring133.htm

Anne