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Incredible rise from the hulks a classic tale of rags to riches that has waited 176 years to be told. Like Abel Magwitch in *Great Expectations* by Charles Dickens, it involves a convict from a prison hulk on the River Thames who made his fortune in Australia. The story has come to light after the online publication of the prison hulk records of about 200,000 convicts released by the National Archive in Britain. http://bit.ly/9Lphal Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra