The Moreton Bay Penal Settlement operated from 1825 to 1842. It became the city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The Moreton Bay Penal Settlement was...
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Patrick Logan (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
Patrick Logan (1791 – 17 October 1830) was the commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement from 1826 until his death in 1830 at the hands of Aboriginal...
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Henry Miller (British Army officer) (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
Henry Miller (1785–1866) was the first commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony in Queensland, Australia. Henry Miller was born in 1785 in Derry, Ireland...
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Owen Gorman (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
Gorman (1799–1862) was a British Army officer and commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony. Gorman was born on 25 July 1799 at Clogham, King's County...
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and Later Rome. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite. The Moreton Bay penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe as a place for secondary offenders...
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Kangaroo Point Cliffs (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
used in the construction of a number of local structures in the Moreton Bay penal settlement. The Kangaroo Point Cliffs were created by convicts mining the...
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Dunwich Convict Causeway (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1827 by convict labour for the Moreton Bay penal settlement. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 22 October...
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notoriously brutal commander of the Moreton Bay penal settlement, in honour of a colleague he served with at Moreton Bay.[citation needed] The local Aboriginal...
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Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from central Brisbane, Queensland. It is one of Queensland's most...
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Dunwich Public Reserve (redirect from Dunwich Convict Settlement)
as Privy Pit, Convict Barracks, and Convict Store within the Moreton Bay penal settlement. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 25 February...
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Queensland. Queensland was explored in subsequent decades, and the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement was established at Brisbane in 1824 by John Oxley. During the...
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Eagle Farm Women's Prison and Factory Site (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
Australia. It operated between 1829 and 1839 as part of the Moreton Bay penal settlement. It is on the site now part of the Australia TradeCoast, previously...
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The Old Windmill, Brisbane (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
Australia. It was built in the 1820s by convict labour in the Moreton Bay penal settlement and is the oldest surviving building in Queensland. It is also...
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Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia. The Coral Sea lies on the...
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History of Australia (1788–1850) (redirect from European settlement of Australia)
1824, the Moreton Bay penal settlement was established on the site of present-day Brisbane as a place of secondary punishment. In 1842, the penal colony...
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City Botanic Gardens (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
Gardens Point campus. It was established in 1825 as a farm for the Moreton Bay penal settlement. The Gardens include Brisbane's most mature gardens, with many...
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First Brisbane Burial Ground (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
Skew Street Cemetery. It was established in 1825 as part of the Moreton Bay penal settlement. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 16 July...
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Early Streets of Brisbane (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
February 1842 Governor Gipps declared Moreton Bay open for Free Settlement.: 48 The Moreton Bay Penal Settlement during its 15 years of operation consisted...
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George Gravatt (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
May 1839, he succeeded Sir Sydney Cotton as commander of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in what is now Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He held the position...
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1826 led to Brown being transferred to the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement (now Brisbane). The settlement's commandant, strict disciplinarian Patrick Logan...
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on the western side of Moreton Island. During the early period of the Moreton Bay penal settlement, vessels entered Moreton Bay primarily through the South...
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history of state education in Queensland commences with the Moreton Bay penal settlement of New South Wales in Australia, which became the responsibility...
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Woody Point, Queensland (category Suburbs of the City of Moreton Bay)
selected as the site of Queensland's first (and only) penal colony (Moreton Bay penal settlement). After arriving in 1824 to establish the colony, problems...
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A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location...
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Foster Fyans (category Norfolk Island penal colony administrators)
of the Moreton Bay penal settlement at Brisbane, the first police magistrate at Geelong, and commissioner of crown lands for the Portland Bay pastoral...
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Queensland includes digitised letters and reports made by Cunningham to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales regarding the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement...
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Field Raids of 1827–1828 was a frontier conflict in the early Moreton Bay Penal Settlement. The conflict consisted of Aboriginal groups plundering and destruction...
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of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, which not only provided the convicts with the punishment of hard labour but also provided the settlement with a useful...
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Sydney Cotton (category Moreton Bay penal settlement)
February 1874) was a British Army officer. He was the commandment of the Moreton Bay penal colony in Australia. Born the second son of Henry Calveley Cotton...
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and established a temporary settlement on the Redcliffe Peninsula. On 2 December 1824, the Moreton Bay penal settlement was transferred to the Brisbane...
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