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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 ...
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.
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 ...
James Dixon (1758–1840), Irish priest, transported to New South Wales in 1800 for his role in the Irish Rebellion of 1798; Jack Donahue (1804–1830), Irish bushranger, transported to New South Wales for intent to commit a felony; Aimable Duperouzel (1831–1901), French farmer, transported to Western Australia for robbery [2]
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.
Alexander Pearce (1790 – 19 July 1824) was an Irish convict who was transported to the penal colony in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia for seven years for theft. He escaped from prison several times, allegedly becoming a cannibal during two of the escapes.