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Australian Convicts
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Just how many Australians are actually descended from convicts? We always assume it's a lot but are there any facts?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.What do you mean by "descended from"? Do you mean a person who somewhere in their family tree - which after two hundred years is a tree with a lot of branches - has one man or woman who was a 19th Century deportee? If so, I imagine quite a few white Australians are descended form transportees from England. But by the same reckoning, most of us - whatever our nationality or ethnicity - probably have a murderer or two (not to mention someone who stole a loaf of bread) - in our ancestry.