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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 ...
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.
William Frederick Jones (1827 – 16 February 1871) was a convict transported to Western Australia, and later became one of the colony's ex-convict school teachers. Born in 1827, Jones was the mate on a trading ship in his youth.
The Lynton Convict Hiring Depot (1853–1857) was the first convict depot north of Fremantle, Western Australia.It was established on 22 May 1853 with the arrival of the 173-ton brigantine Leander, [1] which transferred 60 ticket-of-leave convicts and Pensioner Guards (retired British soldiers) that had arrived at Fremantle on Pyrenees on 1 May. [2]
John Vernon Warren (c. 1826–1898) was a convict transported to Western Australia.He was one of only 39 such convicts from the 9721 convicts transported to the colony to overcome the social stigma of convictism to become schoolteachers.
Pages in category "Convicts transported to Western Australia" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Following the transfer of Fremantle Prison to local control in 1886, it became Western Australia's primary prison. [16]: 71 Though some long term locally sentenced prisoners had been imprisoned there since 1858, [19]: 20–21 in the late 1880s and 1890s the number of prisoners swelled dramatically. This increase predominately comprised ...
Born in 1829, Gavin [3] was convicted of an offence while still a juvenile, and was transported to Western Australia as a Parkhurst apprentice, arriving on board Shepherd in October 1843. On 3 April 1844, he was tried for the murder of his employer's son, 18-year-old George Pollard.