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The use of convict ships to New South Wales began on 18 August 1786, when the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and civilian personnel to Botany Bay. Transportation to the Colony of New South Wales was finally officially abolished on 1 October 1850. [ 1 ]
Joseph Holt (1756–1826), Irish farmer and rebel leader, transported to New South Wales for his role in the Irish Rebellion of 1798; William Horton (1817–1864), English publican, transported to New South Wales for larceny of a coat [4] [5] George Howe (1769–1821), English poet and printer, transported to New South Wales for shoplifting
Convict ships to New South Wales; A. Active (1764 ship) Adamant (1811 ship) Admiral Gambier (1807 ship) Adrian (1819 ship) Æolus (1783 ship) Agamemnon (1811 ship)
Transportation to New South Wales temporarily ended 1840 under the Order-in-Council of 22 May 1840, [29] by which time some 150,000 convicts had been sent to the colonies. The sending of convicts to Brisbane in its Moreton Bay district had ceased the previous year, and administration of Norfolk Island was later transferred to Van Diemen's Land.
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 ...
Convict ships generally engaged in carrying convicts from Great Britain to the Australian Colonies. The First Fleet saw the first convict ships arrive in Australia in January 1788, and the last convict ship, Hougoumont, arrived in Western Australia in 1868. Over the 80 years of transportation, between 1788 and 1868, 608 convict ships ...
1st convict voyage (1826): Captain William Ascough departed Sheerness on 16 May 1826 and arrived in Sydney on 13 September. [4] Marquis of Huntley had embarked 200 male convicts and suffered two convict deaths en route. [5] She sailed from New South Wales on 11 February 1827 and from Bahia on 5 May, and arrived in Portsmouth in mid-June.
It was registered in London in 1836 as convict transport, [3] but its only known sailing as a convict ship was from Cork, Ireland, on 19 February 1836. After 111 days of travel, it arrived at Port Jackson on 9 June 1836, with 112 female convicts, 29 children, and 11 free women who were wives of prisons, with their 24 children.