Convicts from the Rebellion at Castle Hill sent to Newcastle

Convicts from the Castle Hill Rebellion

Newcastle

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Settlement was re- established at Hunter (Coal) River under Lieutenant Charles Menzies in March 1804. Convicts from the Castle Hill Rebellion were among prisoners sent to Hunter River at this time. Many of them worked in the early coal mines at the settlement

Select from the list below for information about convicts who arrived at Hunter River on 30th March 1804

More about many of these convicts and the rebellion at Castle Hill can be found in Jack Delaney's 'Newcastle, Its First Twenty Years: The Irish Rebellion and the Settlement of Newcastle 1804' (ISBN - 646 43855- 7)

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Lynette Ramsay-Silver, Australia's Irish Rebellion: The Battle of Vinegar Hill, 1804, Watermark Press, Sydney, 2002 (first printed 1983); ISBN 0 94928 461 0

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