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Convict women in Port Jackson - Australia's Culture PortalIn 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon. In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Coo...
In addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...
In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
Mr Salchany, lighthouse keeper of Neptune Islands signals a passing ship, 1963. In Australia, lighthouses are built in harbours, on islands, coral reefs and beaches. Courtesy of the Australian Heritage Photo Library, Department of Environment, Water Her...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The myth of the digger and the larrikin hero is an important part of the Australian experience of pastoralism, the goldfields, bushranging, shearing and droving. The slang term 'digger' re-surfaced during th...
Australia is also recognised as producing the world's highest quality woollen fibre – Australian merino wool. John and Elizabeth Macarthur were married in Devonshire in England in 1788. In 1796, John Macarthur bought his first merino sheep from a ...
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Convict women in Port Jackson - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture Portal )In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
Convict Women begins with the story of Maria Lord - convict 'whore', pioneer family woman, successful entrepreneur, abandoned wife - whose life illustrates many of the central themes of convict women's history in Australia. Kay Daniels is the co-editor of...
On arrival, female convicts were sent directly to the Female Factory. Young convict girls were also employed in the Female Factory. A three-storey barracks and female factory was built in 1821 and was mainly used to house women who had committed local of...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Thomas Wilkinson: a Pioneer of Principles and Conviction © Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Thomas Wilkinson: a Pioneer of Principles and Conviction Linda M Schulz, Barrack Heights, New South Wales, 1994...
In 1838, The Governor of Van Diemens Land, Sir John and his wife, Lady Franklin visited and inspected the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart and attended a service in the factory chapel. This same refractory spirit was illustrated by another occasion when...
Author Name: Taylor, PeterTitle: Australian Ripping Yarns: Cannibal convicts, macabre murders, wanton women and living legends. Binding: Trade PaperbackPublisher: Melbourne Melbourne Five Mile Press 2004ISBN Number: 1865039381 / 9781865039381Seller ID: ID...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Society of Women Writers (Australia), N.S.W. Branch, Sydney, 1980, pp. Women--New South Wales--History....
His novel My Name is Red was the fastest selling novel in the history of Turkish fiction when it appeared in 1998. In doing so, his novels, and indeed his public statements on present political and religious controversies in Turkey, have led him into diff...
After the depression, education – coupled with massive immigration to Melbourne and surrounding areas during the gold rush – undoubtedly helped rebuild the colony and its population. >>Source of quote: Teale, R 1978, Colonial eve: sources on w...
Female convicts and free settlers were a small but important part of Port Phillip's development. > > The majority of Port Phillip's women were initially unmarried free settlers. >>Source of quote: Teale, R 1978, Colonial eve: sources on women in Australi...
The first settlement at Sullivan Bay wasn't a success, and convicts and settlers alike struggled to stay alive. >> In April 1803, Lieutenant David Collins led the HMS Calcutta and the transport ship Ocean from England to establish a penal settlement at Po...
There are several series of records for the Queens Orphan School which are consulted frequently by genealogists. Information given includes name of child and parents (if known), ship the mother arrived on and date of discharge of child and to whom. For ...
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