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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.

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 to the right to find out what happened when he refused to return to the Williams River in 1832

SG 25 September 1832 Old Bailey Online

Convicts Ships to New South Wales 1835

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

Instructions to Surgeons on Convict Ships to NSW

Irish rebel Thomas Brady - arrived on the Minerva in 1800

Select here for a list of Convict Ships with links to convicts and Surgeon's Journals

Female Convicts - A description in Leigh Hunt's London Journal from Rev. Dr. Lang's Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales

This is a Link. Click on the book to read more about the fate of female convicts in New South Wales

Read about 28 convict women sent to Newcastle penal settlement after a riot at the FEMALE FACTORY AT PARRAMATTA in 1831

Read Robert Dawson's description of convict living conditions in THE PRESENT STATE OF AUSTRALIA. Published in 1830

Conditions in the Prison Hulks in Britain

Find out more about CONVICT COAL MINERS sent to the penal settlement at Newcastle in the years 1801 - 1830

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.

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

Convict Punishment at Newcastle in 1840

Convict Ship HINDOSTAN 1821

Notes about the ROYAL SOVEREIGN convict ship which arrived in NSW in 1835 - Select from the links for more information about 169 Royal Sovereign convicts

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Instructions to Masters and Surgeon Superintendents proceeding on Convicts Ships to New South Wales and VDL

George Shaw Rutherford - Evidence given to the Select Committee inquiring into the best mode of giving efficiency to Secondary Punishments (George Rutherford was surgeon superintendent on the convict ships Prince of Orange 1820, Shipley 1822, Commodore Hayes 1823, Marquis of Hastings 1826, Eliza II, 1827, Lord Melville II 1829 and Royal Admiral 1830.)

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

Report on Convict Discipline and Management by Alexander Maconochie (Laid before Parliament in 1838) - Superintendent at Norfolk Island 1840 - 1844

A Description of Road Parties and Chain Gangs

Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge By Charles Knight

For a List of Convicts of the First Fleet Select HERE

Read about Newcastle penal settlement under the command of Major Morisset in Report of the Commissioner of Enquiry into the state of the colony of New South Wales

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