Old travel Blog photograph of people outside the YMCA in Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. Scots who committed crimes risked being sent to convict colonies. Until 1776 they were sent to the USA, but in 1787 the first prison ship left Britain for Australia. Australia was used as a convict colony until 1867. Convicts were forced onto transportation ships for a variety of serious crimes such as stealing and repeated minor crimes. They were often sentenced to 7 years, 14 years or life in the colonies and had little chance of returning to Britain. From the 1870s, orphaned children were sent to new families in the New World by William Quarrier. The Young Men's Christian Association was active in helping boys emigrate in the first half of the 20th century. The British Women’s Emigration Association was founded in 1901 to help middle class educated women emigrate.
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