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Overall, approximately 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Convicts. A. Esther Abrahams (c. 1767–1846 ... Convict Records This page was last edited on 2 ...
Home Office - Department responsible for administration of convicts. Records include convict trial, imprisonment and transportation registers as well as convict musters and censuses in New South Wales and other convict colonies. [19] [21] War Office – Administered British regiments serving in Australia and New Zealand for much of the colonial ...
Once emancipated, most ex-convicts stayed in Australia and joined the free settlers, with some rising to prominent positions in Australian society. However, convictism carried a social stigma and, for some later Australians, being of convict descent instilled a sense of shame and cultural cringe .
These convict records are listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World heritage database as being a record of forced emigration at the beginning of the modern age of globalisation which transformed the lives of those British and Irish convicts, and largely destroyed the lives and culture of Australia’s Indigenous people. [2]
The First Fleet convicts are named on stone tablets in the Memorial Garden, Wallabadah, New South Wales. The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788. The ships departed with an estimated 775 convicts (582 men and 193 ...
On 10 February 1842 Governor George Gipps declared the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement closed and the district open for free settlement. [8]: 303–304 In 2009 the Convict Records of Queensland, held by the Queensland State Archives and the State Library of Queensland was added to UNESCO's Australian Memory of the World Register [13]