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Between 1842 and 1849, 234 juvenile offenders were transported to the Colony of Western Australia on seven convict ships. From 1850 to 1868, over 9,000 convicts were transported to the colony on 43 convict ship voyages. Western Australia was classed as a full-fledged penal colony in 1850.
The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small numbers of juvenile offenders from 1842, it was not formally constituted as a penal colony until 1849. Between 1850 and 1868, 9,721 convicts were transported to Western Australia on 43 convict ...
Although a convict-supported settlement was established in Western Australia from 1826 to 1831, direct transportation of convicts did not begin until 1850. It continued until 1868. During that period, 9,668 convicts were transported on 43 convict ships .
James Walsh ( 1833–1871), English artist, transported to Western Australia for theft and forgery Thomas Watling (1762–c. 1814), Scottish artist, transported to New South Wales for forgery William Westwood (c. 1830–1846), English bushranger and leader of the Cooking Pot Uprising , transported to New South Wales for stealing a coat
The ship's original owner was Duncan Dunbar, a highly successful ship owner who entered the convict transport trade in the 1840s, providing nearly a third of the ships that transported convicts to Western Australia. The nineteenth century author W. Clark Russell claimed to have served on the Hougoumont for three years.
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 ...
Pages in category "Convict ships to Western Australia" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Convict voyage (1856): Runnymede, William Burrows, master, sailed from Plymouth on 15 June 1856 and arrived at Fremantle, Swan River Colony, on 7 September. [3] she was the 17th convict ship to arrive there. [4] She carried 248 male convicts, 30 guards with their 19 wives, 18 sons and 22 daughters. [5]