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In 1787 a group of prisoners lodged in Newgate Jail receive notice that their death sentences are commuted to life imprisonment in New South Wales. They are boarded onto the Charlotte and joined by a smaller group of female prisoners. Gilbert, the captain, offers one pretty female prisoner, Sally, free run of the ship on certain conditions.
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant is a 2005 miniseries loosely based on the life of Mary Bryant, an English girl from Cornwall who in this telling was convicted of petty theft (though the historical Mary Bryant was transported for a violent robbery and assault), [1] and who was transported to the Australian penal colony on the First Fleet with other prisoners bound for Botany Bay.
The ballad "Botany Bay", which describes the sadness felt by convicts forced to leave their loved ones in England, was written at least 40 years after the end of transportation. Perhaps the most famous convict in all of fiction is Abel Magwitch , a main character of Charles Dickens ' 1861 novel Great Expectations .
The story was fictionalised by Rosa Jordan in her novel Far From Botany Bay, [9] by Lesley Pearse in the novel Remember Me, [10] and by Meg Keneally in Fled. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The first chapter of the graphic novel Terra Doloris (978-2-344-00787-1, 2018) by Laurent-Frédéric Bollée and Philippe Nicloux is about Mary Bryant and her family.
24 January – The La Perouse expedition in the Astrolabe and Boussole arrive at Botany Bay. 26 January – After Botany Bay was decided unsuitable for settlement, the First Fleet sails to Port Jackson and lands at Sydney Cove to establish a settlement (which becomes Sydney). [1] 6 February – The first female convicts disembark at Port ...
Alan J. Frost FRHistS, FAHA (29 March 1943 – 12 April 2023) [1] was an Australian historian and professor emeritus at La Trobe University.A major theme of his research involved the European exploration of the Pacific Ocean over the second half of the eighteenth century.
After serving over four years in a factory, he was transported to Botany Bay, Australia, in the convict ship Minorca. Blue arrived in Sydney in 1801 and served out the remaining two years of his sentence. In 1804, records show him living in The Rocks, then a slum. There he met Elizabeth Williams, a 30-year-old convict from Hampshire, England ...
The journal was first published in London in 1789 by Debrett's as A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay: With an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. [73] It was one of the earliest published accounts of the First Fleet voyage and the early settlement of Australia. The book ran to several editions and was later ...