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An estimated 9,000 convict women were in the 13 female factories, in the colonies of NSW and Van Diemen's Land. This spanned a period of 52 years -1804 to 1856. An estimated 1 in 5 to 1 in 7 Australians are related to these women [citation needed]. The factories were called factories because each was a site of production.
Port Macquarie, sometimes shortened to Port Mac and commonly locally nicknamed Port, [2] is a coastal city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 390 km (242 mi) north of Sydney, and 570 km (354 mi) south of Brisbane, on the Tasman Sea coast at the mouth of the Hastings River, and the eastern end of the Oxley Highway (B56).
Macquarie selected a 4-acre (16,000 m 2) portion of William Bligh's 105 acre grant further upstream on the Parramatta River to build a new factory and issued instructions to convict architect Francis Greenway to design a building that would accommodate 250 women. This was the first purpose-built female factory in the Colony and a model for the ...
Fantasy Glades was located at 44 Parklands Cl, Port Macquarie. On 17 March 2008, the parkland became available to buy. [ 4 ] The parkland is the only landsite of its kind in the beach side area of Port Macquarie.
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The median weekly income for residents within the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council area was slightly below the national average. [6] [7] At the 2011 Census, the proportion of residents in the Port Macquarie-Hastings local government area who stated their ancestry as Australian or Anglo-Celtic exceeded 83% of all residents (national average was ...
The Gathang language (aka Gadjang or Worimi) is the speech of the Birrbay centred in Port Macquarie.Birpai is spelt Biripi in southern areas, such as Taree.Gathang was a community language spoken by the six tribes of the Worimi when required to meet. [3]
"Wok hei" (simplified Chinese: 镬气; traditional Chinese: 鑊氣; pinyin: huò qì; Jyutping: wok 6 hei 3) literally, the "breath of the wok", is the distinct charred, smoky flavor resulting from stir-frying foods over an open flame in Cantonese cuisine. [16]