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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.
In 1828 he established Australia's first whaling station, at Eden on the south coast of New South Wales. He was also the first to ship Australian cedar overseas. [6] He is buried in Camperdown Cemetery in Newtown, N.S.W. Notable passengers included: John Reynell, who is thought to have established the first commercial vineyard and winery in ...
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 161,700 convicts (of whom 25,000 were women) were transported to the Australian colonies of New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land and Western Australia. [70] Historian Lloyd Robson has estimated that perhaps two-thirds were thieves from working class towns, particularly from the Midlands and north of England.
She had embarked 156 convicts, none of whom died en route. [5] The 53rd Regiment of Foot provided the guard. Medway sailed on to Sydney, arriving there on 27 March; she carried a number of prisoners being transferred from Hobart to Newcastle, New South Wales. Newcastle had become a place where the most dangerous convicts were sent to dig in the ...
Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips at Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle; now representing "...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers ...