ISABELLA SHORT RECEIVES A PARDON: Isabella Short, was one of 184 female convicts transported on the Gilbert Henderson, which arrived at Van Diemen's Land on 24th April, 1840. She had received a sentence of 10 years transportation. This is the original vellum document, signed by the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir William Thomas Denison, granting Short a conditional pardon (in January 1849) providing that she "not return to or be found within the United Kingdom..." during the remaining period of her ori

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