List of Convict Ships to NSW from India and Ceylon

For 400 years or more there was a British-Irish diaspora throughout the old colonies (the British Empire), and these people, while calling themselves British subjects, may never have lived in Britain, but instead often moved from one colony to another. There were many convicts sent from these British outposts in India, Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, Bermuda, Mauritius and other places. A large number of them were soldiers who had been transported for crimes such as mutiny, desertion and insubordination.