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James RUSE/RUCE
He
was tried at
Bodmin, Cornwall
on
29 July 1782 for burglary with a value of 100 shillings.
He
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years having been originally sentenced to death,
and left England on the
Scarborough
aged about 28 at that time (May 1787).
His occupation was listed as farmer. He died in 1837.
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His gravestone reads “My mother reread me tenderley. With me she took much paines And when I arived in this coelney I sowd the forst grain and now with my hevnly father I hope for ever to remain.”
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