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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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Botany Bay: The Real Story
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For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. We all know that it was established as a dumping ground for Britain’s criminals. Alan Frost goes beyond these clichés to shed new light on the decision to settle New South Wales ...
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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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Free Passage: The Reunion of Irish Convicts and their Families in Australia 1788-1852
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This is the poignant and complex story of the reunion of Irish families in Australia from 1788-1852. A hidden history full of human drama, the story has never been told before. over a third of convicts transported to the Australian colonies between 1788-1868 were Irish ...
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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 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 Convicts of the 'Eleanor': Protest in Rural England, New Lives in Australia
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The convicts transported on the 'Eleanor' in February 1831 were not hardened criminals. The men on board - impoverished agricultural labourers and rural craftsmen from Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset - were transported because they were 'Swing rioters' - men who dared to demand a modest wage increase ...
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The First Fleet 1788 Chart
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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 First Fleet: The Real Story
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In 1797 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people set out from England from Botany Bay. Alan Frost draws on hundreds of previously neglected records to debunk the myths that the voyage was a complete muddle and not unplanned ...
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The First Frontier: The Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788 to 1816
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'The First Frontier' examines the relationship between the the colonists and Aborigines in those early years of the colony and delves into the background of the people who were involved in some of the events, tragic and otherwise, that occurred up until the even of hostilities in the Sydney region in 1816.
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary Story of Female Convicts Bound for Botany Bay
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"The Floating Brothel" is the gripping true story of 237 female convicts - mainly taken from London's fever-ridden, overcrowded Newgate Gaol - to the fledgling colony of New South Wales.Though it was percieved that the ship was rife with prostitution and debauchery, the reality was more complex and more interesting ...
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The Old Razorback Road: Life on the Great South Road between Camden and Picton 1830-1930
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A nightmare for the convicts who built it and the travellers forced to endure its horrors for a hundred years. The Great South Road was built to allow the distribution of wool, tallow, hides and other products to Sydney docks from Campbelltown and Picton and beyond. The route chosen was over the Razorback Range, a jagged range with steep cliffs and rocky spurs, an unstable ...
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Thomas Dunn: Convict and Chief Constable and his Descendants
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This book brings together the work of many of the descendants of Thomas Dunn, an Irishman, who as a 20 year old in 1799, was convicted and transported to Australia on the 'Hillsborough' for stealing. Some time between 1811 and 1814 Thomas became a free man, and set about creating a new life for himself in Sydney ...
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Through the Eyes of Thomas Pamphlett: Convict and Castaway
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This book examines the everyday lives of convict Thomas Pamphlett (1788?-1838) and other ordinary people in such diverse places as Manchester, a convict ship, Sydney, a chain gang, Newcastle, the Hawkesbury area and Brisbane. A brickmaker from Manchester, he was sentenced to 14 years' transportation for stealing a horse ...
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