This dictionary give the names, and tells the story of Western Australia's early
Warders and Gaolers during the period 1829-1879. While a number of small gaols
and lock-ups have been established in the colony, it was not until the arrival
of the first convicts in June 1850 that the prison system in Western Australia
began to employ an increasingly large number of prison officers.
The Dictionary contains entries for 525 identified Imperial and Colonial warders,
matrons and gaolers, Enrolled Pensioners employed as warders, instructing
warders of the Corp of Royal Sapper and Miners and Corps of Royal Engineers,
police lock-up keepers, Lunatic Asylum warders and matrons and former prisoners
employed as prison officers.
Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbrevitions
Conversion Table
Comptroller General of Convicts, Western Australia 1850-1879
Superintendent Fremantle Prison 1850-1879
Superintendent Native Establishment Rottnest 1828-1879
Superintendent of Police, Western Australia 1853-1879
Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers Who Served in Western Australia
1850-1863
Explanatory Notes
Source Notes
Biographies
