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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 ...
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 Historical Records of Australia comprise three series of volumes. Within a series, each separate volume is roughly 900 pages in length. Series I comprises 26 volumes. It was published during 1914-1925. It contains despatches of the Governors, who were in charge of the Crown colonies in Australia, to and from the authorities in England ...
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station, Allen and Unwin, 2008. ISBN 9781741751499; Robson, Lloyd. History of Tasmania, 2 Volumes. Edward Shann, An Economic History of Australia, Georgian House 1930. John West, History of Tasmania, 1852.
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
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.
Islands of incarceration: convict and quarantine islands of the Australian coast (1st ed.). Brisbane, Qld.: Amphion Press for Australian Society of the History of Medicine. p. 122. ISBN 0-86776-599-2. Pink, Kerry G (c. 1984). "Chapter 3: Macquarie Harbour: Convicts' Hell". Through Hells Gates: a history of Strahan and Macquarie Harbour. Burnie ...
Born in Enfield, near London in about 1774, Field began his working life as a farmer and butcher. [1] In 1800, at the age of 26, he was convicted of receiving nine stolen sheep from his brother, Richard [2] and in 1806 was transported to the then newly established colony of Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.