Genealogy Australia

The Port Arthur convict photographs are a remarkable record of the men who were sent from Britain to serve time in Australia between the 1820s and the 1850s. "Exiled: The Port Arthur Convict Photographs" takes some of these portraits and combines them with biographies of the men (and their female partners) based on transportation records, trial documents, official correspondence, prison files, local and overseas newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts.

The result is a fascinating insight into an often misunderstood part of Australia’s story, in which these reluctant pioneers become individuals born with strengths and weaknesses; who had hopes and dreams; celebrated victories and mourned tragedies; and made good decisions and bad. In short, they turn out to be men and women very much like ourselves.

Contents:
Foreword
Prologue
- The face in the photographs
- Children on their time
The Old Crawlers
- William Hayes
- Charles Rosetta
- Peter Killeen
- John Morin
- Dennis Dougherty
- Thomas Francis
- Duncan MacDonald
- Ephraimd Doe
- George White
- George Langley
- Luke Marshall
- William Curtis
- William Burton
- William Baker
- James Harper
- John Morrison
- John Jones
- Michael Murphy
- George Ediker
- Thomas Fleming
Epilogue
- Whatever Happened to the convicts?
- Port Arthur postscript
Rogues Gallery
- Appleby to Conlon
- Dougherty to Francis
- Funt to Heys
- Johnson to Merchant
- Molineux to Riley
- Rosetta to Willham
- Woodley to Yeomans
Index