For your information: This Henry Russell, b1818, is my Great Grandfather. He did indeed have only one arm but we had no knowledge of this forgery business; It is too much of a coincidence for there to have been two Henry Russells born in 1818! Why he wasn't transported we don't know - possibly because he was disabled? He was also a painter and my Grandmother had two paintings of his, still life, in her dining room. He was the owner of the Russell Family and Commercial Hotel in W Hartlepool and died in Greatham.
Henry had a son lso Henry (Stuart Burlingson) Russell, who died in W Hartlepool aged 2 1/2 years.

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Mike Russell