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Home Search Convict Ships Index Bushranger Index Hunter Valley Settlers Colonial History Inns & Hotels Newcastle Links Maitland Lake Macquarie Hunter Valley Colonial Events Medical Practitioners Convict Ship Surgeons News Feeds Site Search	Convict Ship Lord Melville - Frances Johnson was one of 99 women who arrived convict transport Lord Melville in 1817. Select here to read an interesting account of the voyage of the Lord Melville written by descendant Brian Wills-Johnson. Select here to find the names of the prisoners and their children as well as twelve free women, wives of convicts, who also arrived as passengers on the Lord Melville. Convict Ship Anne 1810 Convict Ship Asia 1830 Convict Ship Kains 1831 Convict Ship Midas in 1825 - Find out more about surgeon Charles Cameron *Convict Ship Neptune* 1818 - Read the journal of Surgeon Superintendent Thomas Reid Convict Ship Morley 1820 - From the Journal of Surgeon Superintendent Thomas Reid The Voyage of the Convict Ship Friendship 1800 - From a Journal kept by the wife of Master Hugh Reed The Convict Ship England was visited by phrenologist Mr. Deville. He examined each of the 148 convicts and gave a memorandum of the inferred character of each individual, and of the manner in which the propensities were likely to manifest themselves. Select here to read part of the journal of Surgeon Superintendent Mr. Thompson Convict Ship HINDOSTAN 1821 Notes about the ROYAL SOVEREIGN Convict Ship 1835 Find out more about the convict ship Hashemy here Convict Ships to New South Wales in 1835 Convict Ship Surgeon Superintendents Irish rebel Thomas Brady - arrived on the Minerva in 1800 Mary Talbot - Arrived on the Mary Ann in 1791 Convict Ships Index James Hardy Vaux was one of Australia's most famous convicts. He was transported three times over a period of thirty years. First on the Minorca in 1801, then on the Indian in 1810, and in 1831 the Waterloo. While serving at Newcastle penal settlement in 1811 he wrote his Memoirs including the Vocabulary of the Flash Language, Australia's first dictionary - Read about James Hardy Vaux at Newcastle - 1811 CONVICT COAL MINERS sent to the penal settlement at Newcastle in the years 1801 - 1830 Botany Bay Hero - Select HERE to read an account of The life of convict 'Michael Keane' who was first recruited as a soldier before being sentenced to transportation. He claimed to have received 7250 lashes during his life and referred to himself as a Botany Bay Hero. Female Factory at Parramatta - Read about 28 convict women sent to Newcastle penal settlement after a riot at the Female Factory at Parramatta in 1831 Frank the Poet** - Australia's well known convict poet Francis McNamara 'Frank the Poet' arrived on the Eliza convict ship in 1832....select HERE to find out what happened to him in the following years Leaving Lincolnshire - In Chains written by David J. Porter tells the compelling tale of his ancestor, Lincolnshire farm labourer John Porter, who was accused of killing a sheep belonging to the local curate. John Porter was promptly convicted, on farcical evidence, and transported to Australia for life, leaving his wife and four young sons to manage without the breadwinner. John Porter was one of 244 convicts who arrived on the convict transport *Prince George* in May 1837. The ship surgeon of the Prince George was Dr. Thomas Bell. Leaving Lincolnshire - In Chains contains Dr. Bell's report of the voyage revealing much on the lives of convicts under his care. During the voyage of the Prince George over 200 of the convicts and many of the guard of the 80th regiment required medical treatment. Author David J. Porter has the full set of records left by Dr. Bell, which includes the name and age of the convict, illness, when each was taken off the sick list and the outcome of each case. With thanks to David Porter, select HERE to find a list of the convicts and guard who were treated by Dr. Bell, together with a summary of the more serious cases Purchase Leaving Lincolnshire - In Chains at Burning Ambition Publications Female Convicts - A description in Leigh Hunt's London Journal from Rev. Dr. Lang's Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales Assignment to far distant farms and lonely sheep stations was a terrifying ordeal for many convicts in the 1830's. Convict James Allen would rather have died than return to the Williams River district. James Allen was eighteen years old when he was sentenced to transportation for Life for picking the pocket of William Good in Bridge Street, London He arrived on the convict ship England in 1826 Click on the picture below to find out what happened when he refused to return to the Williams River in 1832 SG 25 September 1832 Old Bailey Online Robert Dawson's description of Convict Living Conditions in The Present State of Australia Report from Committees on Secondary Punishment - Treatment of Convicts in New South Wales - 1831 Abstract of all Applications for and Assignments of CONVICT SERVANTS in 1826 Convicts in NSW 1826 - 1828 - Returns of Assignment of Male Convicts The Felonry of New South Wales - James Mudie Parliamentary Debates - Dr. Halloran's Petition on the state of Convict Ships - Refute by Sir T.B. Martin 26th January 1819 Return of convicts in the General Hospital at Sydney on 10th February 1848 Report on Convict Discipline and Management by Alexander Maconochie (Laid before Parliament in 1838) - Superintendent at Norfolk Island 1840 - 1844 A description of the Iron Gang Stockade at Maitland on 18 June 1836 - The life and labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania. By James Backhouse..........
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A description of the Iron Gang Stockade at Maitland on 18 June 1836 -

The life and labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania. By James Backhouse..........