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Elopement Extraordinary!!! October 1827

Elopement Extraordinary!!! October 1827

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[Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 29 October 1827, p2]

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Parramatta Female Factory

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Parramatta Female Factory riot 1827

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Parramatta Female Factory

The Parramatta Female Factory is the largest and oldest surviving convict women's site in Australia. Operating between 1821 and 1848, it was a refuge for women and children, elderly and sick women; a marriage bureau; a place of assignment and moral reform; a penitentiary; a women's hospital for the convicted as well as the free; and a workhouse - all rolled into one.

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Women's prisons

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

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First newspaper published in Sydney, from 5 March 1803 until 20 October 1842.

Originally printed in a lean-to shed at the back of Government House, the newspaper moved to different premises in Macquarie Place in 1808 and then to a building on lower George Street in December 1810. In 1824 the printery moved again to a larger two storey building further south on George Street on the corner of Charlotte Place.

Parramatta Female Factory

Accommodation for unassigned convict women sent to the colony, which became a workhouse, marriage bureau and hospital. This multiplicity of roles made it difficult to administer and it quickly evolved from a place of refuge into a prison.

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Parramatta

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Western suburb built on the land of the Burramattagal people. Sydney's second European settlement, it began as a government farm in 1788 and has many heritage listed sites. It is now the commercial hub of Greater Western Sydney.

Female Factory

Assignment depot which also operated as refuge, workhouse, prison and marriage bureau for unassigned convict women who were classified by a three class system which determined their level of employment or punishment.

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Parramatta Female Factory riot 1827

First of a series of riots which occurred at the factory as a result of overcrowding, punishment and other inequitable arrangements.

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