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Parramatta Female Factory

 

Parramatta Female Factory

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Riot at the Factory

There was a riot at the Factory in February 1831. Many of the participants were sent to Newcastle (28 women), very soon afterwards. This must have stretched the facilities to the maximum.  It would be interesting to know the reaction of surgeon George Brooks when these recalcitrant and defiant women began arriving. They had been sentenced to three years transportation to a penal settlement however under orders of George Brooks, most had been assigned to private service in Newcastle and Maitland by September of that year.

 Factory Industry 1824

 

 

   

Select from the box below to find out the names of the 28 female convicts who were sent to Newcastle in 1831.


A colourful description of a riot that took place at the factory in the 1830's

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Our Antipodes; Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies With a Glimpse of the Gold Fields By Godfrey Charles Mundy

Convict Clothing

 

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Convict labour was used in the coal mines in Newcastle. This image - a rare brass button from the work clothes of a convict in the 1830's is part of the Migration Heritage Centre Exhibition....read more

Clothing for convicts was supplied by the government. This yellow and black convict jacket was made of Parramatta cloth and in use in the 1840's....read more

Read about Australian colonial & convict clothing in Margaret Maynard's 'Fashioned From Penury: Dress as a Cultural Practice'....read more

Did 'your' convict arrive before 1805? This pamphlet compiled by Dr. Stephen Gapps describes what convicts may have been wearing at this time.... read more  


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Convict Conditions

1827

 

 

 

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

 

Find out more about Convict coal miners at the penal settlement at Newcastle in the years 1801-1830....here

 

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.

 

Convict James Hardy Vaux' vocabulary of the ‘Flash Language’ was compiled in Newcastle during the years 1811-1814. Newcastle University Archivist Gionni Di Gravio discusses the autobiography of convict, author and scallywag charmer James Hardy Vaux.....read more

 

Notes on 169 convicts who arrived in the 'Royal Sovereign in 1835....read more

Australia's well known convict poet Francis McNamara 'Frank The Poet' arrived on the 'Eliza' convict transport in 1832....select here to read his poem 'For the Company Under Ground'.

 

Convict Profiles

 

Conditions in the Prison Hulks in Britain

Lawrence Davoran

Levi Abraham

William Eckford

 

 

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The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor By Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) Published in 1846

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 Pages from 'Convict Women' by Kay Daniels

Select here for a history of the Female Factory, Parramatta at Gordon Family History site

 

 

 

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