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There are now over 170,000 references to Convicts, Settlers, Townsfolk, Bushrangers, Innkeepers, Soldiers and Land Owners, Medical Practitioners and Magistrates.  Search by First Name, Last Name, Ship or all three.

Information about the voyages of approximately 350 convict ships and the Surgeon Superintendents who accompanied them can be accessed via the Convict Ship Index and Surgeon Superintendent Index

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Convict Ship Index

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Follow the Female Convict Ship Trail

Approximately three hundred female prisoners who had been convicted in Scotland arrived in New South Wales in the decade 1830 - 1840. Click on the image below on each page to find out more

  
     

 
 

 

Convict Ship Surgeon Superintendent Index

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Emigrants from England, Ireland and Scotland to Hunter Valley 1830s & 1840s

Scourgers - NSW             

Report of the Commissioner of the Inquiry on the State of the Colony of New South Wales {Extracts Relating to Transportation, Disembarkation & Servitude}

Political Prisoners to NSW

Reminiscences of Watt Street, Newcastle

 
 

Pirates - Newcastle 1825

William Grant Broughton's ship board diary on the convict ship John in 1829

Islands in the lower Hunter River included Moscheto Island, Dempsey Island, Spit Island, Spectacle Island, Bullock Island and Ash Island

Convict Ship Captains Index

Morpeth Links

Newcastle Gaol

City Baths - Newcastle
 

Voyage of the convict ship Guardian in 1789

Lawrence Armstrong - Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ship Daphne in 1819

Newcastle in 1831

Robert Dixon - Surveyor

Convict Ship Midas 1827

Map links - Hunter, Williams Paterson Rivers. N.L.A.

Cottage Creek - Bridge, Cemetery, Cottage

County Electors - Newcastle 1855

 
 

 

 

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Below is a list of 98 convict ships carrying female prisoners to New South Wales - Click on the links to find those women who have been identified residing in the Hunter Valley in the years up to 1860........
 
Aeolus 1809 Canada 1817 Forth (11) 1830 John Bull 1821
Alexander 1806 Caroline 1833 Francis & Eliza 1815 John Renwick 1838
Alexander 1816 Catherine 1814 Friends 1811 Kains 1831
Almorah 1824 City of Edinburgh 1828 Friendship 1818 Lady Juliana 1790
Andromeda 1834 Competitor 1828 George Hibbert 1834 Lady Penrhyn 1788
Anne 1801 Diamond 1838 Glatton 1803 Lady Rowena 1826
Archduke Charles 1813 Diana 1833 Grenada 1825 Lord Melville 1817
Asia 1830 Earl Cornwallis 1801 Grenada 1827 Lord Sidmouth 1823
Atlas 1802 Earl of Liverpool 1831 Harmony 1827 Lord Wellington 1820
Britannia 1797 Henry 1825   Louisa 1827
Brothers 1824 Elizabeth 1818 Henry Wellesley 1837 Lucy Davidson 1829
Brothers 1827 Elizabeth 1828 Hooghley 1831 Margaret 1837
Broxbornebury 1814 Experiment 1804 Indispensable 1809 Margaret 1839
Buffalo 1833 Experiment 1809 Isabella 1840 Margaret 1840
Canada 1810 Fanny 1833 Janus 1820 Maria 1818

 

 

 

 
 

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