Read a description of the Female Factory at
Parramatta in the 'Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the state of
the Colony of New South Wales
'
(J.T. Bigge) - State Library of NSW
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.
Select from the box below to find out
the names of the 28 female
convicts who were sent to Newcastle in 1831.
