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1788 Watkin Tench: Comprising a Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and a Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet in January 1788. He was in his late twenties, a captain of the marines, and on the adventure of ...
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1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet
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Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Eleven of the tiniest ships sailed for eight months over the roughest seas, carrying 1500 people, food for two years, and all the equipment needed to build a colony of convicts ...
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Convict Assignment in New South Wales Vol. 1 1830-1832
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On arrival the convict was assigned to private service or government service. It may have been necessary to re-assign if their 'master' did not collect them or they absconded or ...
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Convicts Absconding in New South Wales Vol. 1 1830-1832
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Convict Absconding: Not all, but many convicts absconded for a variety of reasons, and the second publication lists these, with not only full details of names, but includes aliases, which ...
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Convicts and Employers (New South Wales) Index: 1828, 1832-1833, Jan 1838-Jan 1844
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This index of 22,574 records has been compiled primarily from lists published in the New South Wales Government Gazettes in 1832-1833 of assignments (male and female), absconders, absconders ...
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Convicts Apprehended in New South Wales Vol. 1 1830-1832
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This is another title in the 'Convicts Assignment, Absconding and Apprehended in New South Wales' series, which is designed to assist in tracing the colonial life of a ...
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Convicts Apprehended in New South Wales Vol. 2 1833-1835
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This is another title in the 'Convicts Assignment, Absconding and Apprehended in New South Wales' series, which is designed to assist in tracing the colonial life of a convict ancestor ...
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Convicts to New South Wales 1788-1812: Complete Listings from the Transportation Records
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For the first time, the surviving records of the convicts sentenced for transportation to New South Wales in its first twenty five years have been brought together for ...
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Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony
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'Freedom on the Fatal Shore' brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of Australian history. This new book combines both of these classic works into a single volume ...
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Index to Colonial Convict Movements 1827 to 1853
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This index contains convict movement in the Colony of New South Wales (encompassing what is now New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria) of nearly 10,000 convicts. This ...
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Index to Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, New South Wales 1810-1875
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This set of microfiche is a compilation of the convicts in New South Wales that were granted a Ticket-of-Leave or a Pardon during 1810-1875 ...
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Index to Convicts who Arrived in New South Wales 1788-1842
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An index to convicts who arrived in New South Wales (and some in VDL) between 1788 and 1842 and to the ships that transported them. Gives convict's name or alias, arrival date, ...
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Journey to a New Life: The Story of the 'Emu' in 1812 and 'Broxbornebury' in 1814
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Through thorough research, the story of the convict ships 'Emu' and 'Broxbornebury' and those on it are brought to life. Providing details of not only all the convicts, but crew and free passengers ...
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Orphans of History: The Forgotten Children of the First Fleet
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In a poignant and focused re-examination of the First Fleet, Holden has told the story of approximately fifty children who accompanied the 1500 adults who were the foundation of European ...
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Prisoners of Australia: A Narrative
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Divided into four chapters, the author describes her experiences of what she saw and learnt of the condition of the convict prisoners in the Colony of New South Wales around the period of 1836, particularly focussing on the female prisoners ...
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Stories and Tales of the Transported Convicts
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250 stories about some of the obscure yet fascinating convicts transported to Australia. Almost half of those mentioned are females, some were slaves, trade union martyrs, political exiles, Negroes, Jews, ...
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The Battle of Vinegar Hill: Australia's Irish Rebellion, 1804
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Among the embezzlers, forgers, petty thieves, sheep stealers and house breakers transported to the colony, were men whose crimes were purely political. The resentment of these political prisoners knew no ...
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The Bibliography of the Convict Transports
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A list of all 1040 convict transports in alphabetical order, showing the number of people aboard, place of arrival and the source and call number of the ship's indent or ...
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The Colony: A History of Early Sydney
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A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to its economy ...
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The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia
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In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. So remote was ...
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The Convicts and Exiles Transported From Ireland 1791-1820
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This work was developed under the working title 'The Convicts Transported from Ireland 1791-1820'. However, the records revealed a terrible Irish tragedy. Too many arrivals in Australia were ...
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The First Fleet 1788
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With the loss of her American possessions following the American Revolution of 1776, Britain sought to colonize new lands to take care of her burdensome convict problem. The goals and ...
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The First Fleet Families
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A comprehensive list of the first fleet families including 1200 of their children. Also available on microfiche.
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary Story of Female Convicts Bound for Botany Bay
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'Not much attempt had been made to enforce discipline among the women, many of them London prostitutes, who had turned the ship into a floating brothel at her various ports ...
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The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales
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After the American Revolutionary War, both the Irish and British governments attempted to re-establish the trans-Atlantic convict trade instituted in the mid-seventeenth century to Virginia and Barbados. Burgeoning ...
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