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The convict records of Tasmania's colonial founders and survivors are held by the State Library of New South Wales and the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office accessible through LINC Tasmania. 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 ...
1846: Convict transportation to Tasmania suspended until 1848; 1846: Tasmania becomes first Australian colony to enact legislation to protect native animals; 1847: Britain orders closure of NSW convict establishment and transfer of remaining prisoners to Tasmania; 1847: Big Hobart meeting petitions Queen Victoria for end to transportation
Solomon Blay (or Bleay) (20 January 1816 – 18 August 1897) was an English convict transported to the Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania). Once his sentence was served, he gained notoriety as a hangman in Hobart, and is believed to have hanged over 200 people in the course of a long career spanning from 1837 to ...
The first woman executed in Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania. [13] Edmund Daniels - 14 May 1830 - Hanged at Hobart for bushranging. (Convict, Asia 3rd) John Deighton - 14 May 1830 - Hanged at Hobart for bushranging. (Convict - Earl St Vincent) James Child - 14 May 1830 - Hanged at Hobart for bushranging. (Convict - Chapman 2nd)
The Port Arthur convict settlement was established in September 1830 as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for government projects. From 1833 until 1877, it was the destination for those deemed the most hardened of transported convicts ― so-called "secondary offenders" ― who had persistently re-offended during their time in Australia.
The Archives Office of Tasmania (AOT), 1965-Ongoing is the Tasmanian government agency responsible for the archival records of the State of Tasmania.The Archives Act 1965 established the Archives Office of Tasmania as an independent entity, but it remained within the then Tasmanian State Library Department.
The West Coast of Tasmania has a significant convict heritage. The use of the west coast as an outpost to house convicts in isolated penal settlements occurred in the eras 1822–33, and 1846–47. The main locations were Sarah Island (known by many in the late twentieth century as Settlement Island) and Grummet Island in Macquarie Harbour.
From the 1800s to 1853, Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia. Following the suspension of transportation to New South Wales, all transported convicts were sent there; in total, about 73,000 convicts, or about 40%, of all convicts sent to Australia.