A ticket of leave was a document of parole issued to convicts who had shown they could now be trusted with some freedoms. Originally the ticket was issued...
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The Ticket-of-Leave Man or The Ticket of Leave Man may refer to: The Ticket-of-Leave Man (play), an 1863 play by Tom Taylor The Ticket of Leave Man (1912...
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adoption of the ticket of leave system of release on licence. The reported rise in street robbery is considered to have largely been an invention of the press;...
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Ticket of Leave is a 1936 British crime film directed by Michael Hankinson and starring Dorothy Boyd, John Clements and George Merritt. It was made as...
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The Ticket-of-Leave Man is an 1863 stage melodrama in four acts by the British writer Tom Taylor, based on a French drama, Le Retour de Melun. It takes...
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The Ticket of Leave Man is a 1937 British thriller film directed by George King and starring Tod Slaughter, John Warwick and Marjorie Taylor. It was based...
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newly arrived ticket-of-leave holders. The free workmen felt that their jobs were being threatened by the rate of pay for ticket-of-leave holders being...
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The Ticket of Leave Man is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale starring Louise Lovely. John Galloway serves time in prison and gets...
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Tom Taylor (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
are Plot and Passion (1853), Still Waters Run Deep (1855) and The Ticket-of-Leave Man (based on Le Retour de Melun by Édouard Brisebarre and Eugène Nus)...
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Convicts in Australia (category History of Australia (1788–1850))
colony of New South Wales was finally officially abolished on 1 October 1850. If a convict was well behaved, the convict could be given a ticket of leave, granting...
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The Ticket-of-Leave Man is a 1918 British silent crime film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Daphne Glenne, George Foley and Aubrey Fitzmaurice....
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Tod Slaughter (category British Army personnel of World War I)
the subsequent shockers: The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936); It's Never Too Late To Mend (1937); The Ticket of Leave Man (1938); The Face at the Window...
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Detective fiction (redirect from History of detective fiction)
27 February 2014. "The Ticket-of-Leave Man" in Dictionary Central http://www.dictionarycentral.com/definition/the-ticket-of-leave-man.html Archived 2013-12-12...
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Parole (redirect from Prisoners of war parole)
would start all over again through the ranks of the three-grade process. He reformed its ticket of leave system, instituting what many consider to be...
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"One Way Ticket" is a song written by Jack Keller and Hank Hunter. It was originally performed by American singer Neil Sedaka and popularized by British...
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Great Gold Robbery (redirect from Great Gold Robbery of 1855)
Burgess was given a ticket of leave in December 1859 and a conditional pardon in March 1862. Tester received his ticket of leave in July 1859 and a conditional...
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Captain Thunderbolt (category Colony of New South Wales people)
Ann fell pregnant with Fred's child a short time later. In breach of ticket-of-leave regulations, Ward left the Mudgee district to take Mary Ann back to...
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bizarre exploits of Spring Heeled Jack. The misfortunes of a discharged prisoner are the theme of the sensational The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1863) by Tom...
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Ticket to Paradise is a 2022 romantic comedy film starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts as a divorced couple who team up to sabotage the impending...
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Thomas Francis Meagher (category People of New York (state) in the American Civil War)
abruptly surrendered his "ticket-of-leave" and planned his escape to the United States. Meagher sent his "ticket-of-leave" and a letter to the authorities...
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Ticket to Ride is a series of turn-based strategy railway-themed Eurogames designed by Alan R. Moon, the first of which was released in 2004 by Days of...
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certificate of freedom. There were three classifications given to convicts who were to be given greater freedoms. The first level was the ticket of leave, which...
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work or the expiration of his or her sentence. One limitation placed upon emancipists with a conditional pardon – a ticket-of-leave – was that they were...
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Moondyne Joe (category Australian people of Cornish descent)
issued with a ticket of leave on arrival, and on 10 March 1855 he received a conditional pardon. He then settled in the Avon Valley, one of the most rugged...
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Van Diemen's Land (redirect from Colony of Van Diemen's Land)
earning their ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land. Many settled in the new free colony of Victoria, to the dismay of the free settlers...
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'probation passages' which meant they could work for wages. Convict lease Ticket of leave § Australia Angela Woollacott (2015). Settler Society in the Australian...
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Convict crisis (category History of Cape Town)
was triggered by the arrival off the coast of Cape Town of a ship, The Neptune, carrying 288 ticket-of-leave convicts from Ireland. The event was important...
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report to the authorities as a ticket-of-leave man. Overcome by the inexorability of his fate, Falder throws himself out of an upstairs window, falling to...
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airline ticket, bus ticket or train ticket. An individual typically pays for a ticket, but it may be free of charge. A ticket may serve simply as proof of entitlement...
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John Tawell (category English people convicted of murder)
the result of telecommunications technology. Transported to Australia in 1814 for the crime of forgery, Tawell obtained a ticket of leave and started...
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