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The Dethick family from Derbyshire in England has a long and interesting history which reflects the history of Britain from the Wars of the Roses to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, from execution for treason to attempted regicide under the Tudors, from Catholicism to Anglicanism and Puritanism, from the East India Company to transportion to America and emigration to Australia. Original sources incude charters, letters, law suits, trials, a ship's log, parish records and British Census returns from 1841- 1901.