about 162,000 convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia. The British Government began transporting convicts overseas to...

Australia began with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and ended in 1868. Overall, approximately 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia....

flotilla of ships to transport convicts to Australia, it sailed in 1787. Ships continued to transport convicts to Western Australia until 1868. The beginning...

A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". Convicts are often also known as...

colony ceased to have any convicts in its care. The first convicts to arrive in what is now Western Australia were convicts of the New South Wales penal...

settlers, convicts and supplies to Sydney Cove, Australia in 1790. It followed the First Fleet which established European settlement in Australia on 26 January...

large population of convicts and former convicts could be trusted with self-government. The Australian Patriotic Association was formed in 1835 by Wentworth...

powers through the presence and labour of convicts". The 11 penal sites constituting the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage listed property are:...

first British colonists and convicts to Australia. It comprised two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports. On 13 May 1787 the...

of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts." In 1996, the town was...

include the Cape Colony as a destination for convicts; with the added suggestion that ticket-of-leave convicts might be a useful addition to the colony given...

another Irish convict at Castle Hill, planned an uprising. Over 685 Castle Hill convicts intended to join with nearly 1,100 convicts from the Hawkesbury...

their place of exile. A convict ship, as used to convey convicts to the British colonies in America, the Caribbean and Australian Colonies, were ordinary...

assessment. In Australia, every penal colony except Western Australia had a system of convict assignment. Convicts in Western Australia were never assigned...

compared to the British American colonies, Australia received a larger number of convicts.[citation needed] Convicts were generally treated harshly, forced...

large population of convicts and former convicts could be trusted with self-government. The Australian Patriotic Association was formed in 1835 by Wentworth...

The following is a list of Australian politicians convicted of crimes. List of political controversies in Australia Rory Amon- former member of the New...

100 convicts, this time for $1,000, to work on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, also in north Georgia. Georgia ended the convict lease system in 1908...

January 1789 by convicts described by Margaret Hazzard as "incorrigible rogues who took his 'goodwill' for weakness". While some convicts responded well...

Phillip, Philip Gidley King, some marines and about 40 convicts; they anchored in Sydney Cove in the afternoon. Meanwhile, back at Botany Bay, Captain...

Comptroller-General of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land in May 1846. He arrived at the colony on 27 October 1846. During his time in the office, allegations...

approaches to convict labour,' Australian Archaeology 76 (2013), 4. Peter Macfie, ‘Dobbers and Cobbers: Informers and Mateship among Convicts, Officials...

mainland Australia, which was discovered by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon aboard Duyfken in 1606. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by...

Western Australia had ceased. Western Australia's first Comptroller General of Convicts, Edmund Henderson, arrived in the colony with the first convicts on...

group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788. The ships departed...

of the sentence a convict had already served. Some "gentlemen convicts" were issued with tickets on their arrival in the colony. In 1811, the need to...

those convicts whose sentences had expired, and might sometimes be used of free settlers who supported full civil rights for emancipated convicts. An emancipist...

worst convicts, those who had re-offended while in Australia. On 6 June 1825 Major Turton, along with 34 troops, six women and children, and 57 convicts, reoccupied...

colony with his wife, two small children and seven convicts in the governor's cutter, sailing to Timor in a voyage that would come to rank alongside that...

Britain in February, March and April 1791, bound for the Sydney penal settlement, with more than 2,000 convicts aboard. The passengers comprised convicts, military...