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BARRELL, John. The Australian convicts of Radnorshire. TheTransactions of the Radnorshire Society LX (1990) 27-35
BEDDOE, Deirdre. Eleanor James: Cardiganshire's only female transportee to Australia. Ceredigion 83 (1978) 320-22
BEDDOE, Deirdre. Carmarthenshire women and criminal transportation to Australia, 1787-1852. Carmarthenshire Antiquary 13 (1977) 65-71
BEDDOE, Deirdre. Carmarthenshire's convict women in nineteenth century Van Diemen's Land. Carmarthenshire Antiquary 15 (1979) 67-74
BEDDOE, Deirdre. Welsh convict women: a study of women transported from Wales to Australia, 1787-1852. Barry: Stewart Williams, 1979 166p Appendix of lists transportees by county p.155-63 Short bibliography p.165-6
BEDDOW, Bruce E. Mary Ann Beddow - "felon/convict" Glamorgan Family History Society Journal 62 (June 2001) 35-36, 63 (September 2001) 28-30
BRAZELL, J. Phyllis. John Hughes (Jac Tŷ-isha) - a banished son. Carmarthenshire Antiquary XXVI (1990) 511-56 port.
FROST, John. The horrors of convict life. London [1856] 24p
Two lectures delivered in the Oddfellows Hall, Padiham, August 31, 1856
Another ed Hobart: Sullivan's Cove, 1973 Lim.ed. of 150 copies
GILLEN, Mollie. The founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989 608p 'Welsh First Fleeters' listed on p. 423
GILLTRAP, Helen. A convict girl and a governor. Rootes (Gold Coast & Albert Genealogical Society) 69 (June 2003)
*The GLENORCHY murders: a full account of the capture, trial and execution of William Griffiths for the murder of George and Sarah Johnson, at Glenorchy, in the colony of Tasmania, on 12th September, 1865: with a biography of the prisoner &c., &c... Tasmania: Mercury Steam Press Office, 1865 30p ill. port William Griffiths, 1833-1865 born at Denbigh.
GRANT, M. A one way ticket to Botany Bay The five villages chronicle 41 (Spring/March 1997) 12 Frances Williams of Whitford
GRIFFITHS, Ivor. The Rebecca Riots.Dyfed Family History Society Journal 52 (Dec 1994) 60-68
HINDE, Joyce. From Amlwch via Chester to Australia. Gwreiddiau Gwynedd Roots 15 (Nov 1988) 20-21
JONES, E Vaughan. Sheep stealing at Llangelynin 1792. Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society VII (1976) 384-403
JONES, Mair Cymry alltud Botany Bay Llafar gwlad 22 (Gaeaf 1988) 10-11
JONES, Mair. Tocyn un ffordd. Pais Tachwedd 1988 18-19
JONES, Mair. Transported beyond the sea... Country Quest January 1988 26,29 Frances Williams, born Whitford, was on the First Fleet
JONES, Peter M. S. More about a "Becca" character Carmarthenshire Historian XX (1985) 48-57 David Jones, one of the rioters who attacked Pontarddulais toll house was transported to Van Diemen's Land.
KIRBY, Ann. Shropshire First Fleeters Shropshire Family History Society Journal 19/ 2 (June 1998) 55-56
KIRBY, Ann.. Shropshire Second Fleeters Shropshire Family History Society Journal 19/3 (Sep 1998) 84-86
LOXDALE, Alistair & Bruce May Transportation 1800 - a sequel 1996 The Carmarthenshire Antiquary XXXII (1996) 126-7
MAI, Ioan. O Ben Llyn i Botany Bay Capel Garmon: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1993 48p
MAI, Ioan. Gwaddol y confict Y Cymro 21.7.1999 12
MORRIS, E. Ronald. Montgomeryshire Chartist prisoners transported to Australia 1839. Powys Family History Society Cronicl 19 (Autumn 1988) 51-58
OWEN, Brian. Ishmael Jones - a Montgomeryshire murderer. Powys Family History Society Cronicl 23 (Winter 1990) 40-50
PHILLIPS, Gwylon. Y daith i Oz. Y Faner 5.2.1988 18-19
RADFORD, Frances. The King against Elizabeth Jones and Catherine Jones. Gwreiddiau Gwynedd Roots 15 (Nov 1988) 11-12
REVIEW 1995. North Yorkshire County Record Office 1996. ISBN: 0906035570. The convicts transported on the third convict voyage of the Gilmore, in 1843/44, p.52-8 include some from Brecon, Denbigh & Glamorgan.
ROBERTS, R. Fred. Transport to New South Wales. Abergele Field Club and Historical Society Review 12 (1993) 39-40
ROSE, Richard. In chains to New South Wales Pembrokeshire life Dec 1999/Jan 2000 10-12
SHIPS' deserters in Australasia, 1852-1900. Gwreiddiau Gwynedd Roots 24 (Ebrill/April 1993) 9-12
SMEE, C. J. Fourth fleet families of Australia: containing genealogical details of two hundred and five fourth fleeters, their children and grandchildren. Artarmon, NSW: Fourth Fleet Families of Australia, 1992 Welsh fleeters - John William John, John Price, Elizabeth Davis, Samuel Owens, Ann Davis
SOUTTER, Sylvia. How two families moved to Australia because of 8s 6d or 42½ new pence. Glamorgan Family History Society Journal 17 ([December] 1988) 23-5
TARDIF, Philip. Notorious strumpets and dangerous girls : convict women in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1829 Australia : Angus & Robertson, [1990]
TWISTON-DAVIES, Suzanne. Unwillingly from Monmouthshire to New South Wales. Presenting Monmouthshire 24 (1967) 30-31
WILLIAMS, David. John Frost: a study in Chartism. Cardiff: University of Wales Press Board, 1939 viii, 355p
WYATT, Irene. Transportees from Gloucestershire to Australia 1783-1842, edited by Irene Wyatt, with a forward by James Jupp. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Gloucester, 1988, xx, 181p, 1 folded leaf of plates, 2 maps. (Gloucestershire record series, v. 1). Bibliography: p.161-162 - includes indexes. 21 Gloucestershire transportees, 1788-1841 have Wales (including Monmouthshire) as place of origin.