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Convicts

Subject
Abrahams, Esther
Alexander
Beckwith, Mary
Borrowdale
Castle Hill convict rebellion 1804
Charlotte
Cockatoo Island
Cookney, George
Crossley, George
Elizabeth Agnes Miller
Factory Above the Gaol
First Fleet
Fishburn
Friendship
Golden Grove
HMAT Supply
HMS Sirius
Hyde Park Barracks
Hyde Park Barracks archaeology
Lady Juliana
Lady Penrhyn
Lucas, Nathaniel
Lucas, Olivia
Mary Reibey
Meehan, James
Muir, Thomas
Neptune
Order-in-Council ending transportation to New South Wales, 22 May 1840
Packer, Charles
Parramatta Female Factory
Parramatta's General Hospital
Prince Alfred Park, Parramatta
Prince of Wales
Scarborough
Scarborough: Second Fleet
Second Fleet
Second Fleet commemoration plaque, The Rocks
Surprize
The Colonial Hospital
The colonial observations of Surgeon John White
The end of transportation
The myth of Sydney's foundational orgy
William H Bennett
Active
Admiral Barrington
Admiral Gambier
Agamemnon
Albemarle
Albion 1813
Alexander
Almorah
Anne I
Asia
Assigned to His Wife
Atlantic
Atlas I
Atlas II
Atlas III
Baring
Barwell
Bellona
Blenheim
Blenheim II
Boddingtons
Borrowdale
Boyd
Britannia
Britannia III
Broxbornebury
Buffalo
Camden
Canada
Catherine
Charlotte
Competitor
Coromandel
Countess of Harcourt
Duke of Portland
Earl Cornwallis
Earl Spencer
Eden
Eliza
Elizabeth
Fanny
First Fleet
Fishburn
Forfarshire
Fortune
Francis and Eliza
Frederick
Friendship
Friendship II
Ganges
General Hewitt
Golden Grove
Grenada
Guildford
HMAT Supply
HMS Dromedary
HMS Glatton
HMS Sirius
Hashemy
Hercules
Hillsborough
Indefatigable
Indian
Isabella
Janus
John Barry
Lady Harwood
Lady Penrhyn
Landslide
Larkins
Layton
Lord Eldon
Lord Wellington
Malabar
Mangles
Mariner
Marquis Cornwallis
Marquis of Wellington
Mary Ann
Mary Anne
Matilda
Midas
Middlesex
Minerva
Minorca
Morley
Neptune (II)
New Grove
Nile
Northampton
Order-in-Council ending transportation to New South Wales, 22 May 1840
Phoenix (II)
Pilot
Pitt
Planter
Prince of Wales
Providence
Queen
Recovery
Royal Admiral
Salamander
Sarah (II)
Scarborough
Second Fleet Commemoration plaque
Shipley
Sir George Osborne
Somersetshire
Sovereign
Sugar Cane
Surrey
Tellicherry
The Floating Brothel
The Telegraph: a consolatory epistle from Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay...
Third Fleet
Tottenham
Wanstead
William Pitt
William and Ann
Carters' Barracks
Hyde Park Barracks
Castle Hill convict rebellion 1804
Execution of Thomas Barrett 27 February 1788
Inquiry into Female Convict Prison Discipline 1841
Parramatta Female Factory riot 1827
Australasian League for the Abolition of Transportation
NSW Savings Bank
Abrahams, Esther
Allen, Julie
Allen, Mary
Allen, Tamasin
Austen, John Gardiner
Ayres, William
Barber, Elizabeth
Barnsley, Elizabeth
Barrett, Thomas
Barrington, George
Beckford, Elizabeth
Beckwith, Mary
Bellamy, Sarah
Bennett, Elizabeth Agnes
Bennett, John
Bennett, John 1769-1788
Bennett, William Harrard
Bland, William
Bloodsworth, James
Blue, Billy
Bond, William
Brace, Emmanuel
Branham, Mary
Bridges, Christopher Limebear
Browne, Thomas Kirkman
Bruce, George
Bryant, Mary
Bryant, William
Buckingham, George
Burley, Elizabeth
Burn, Simon
Burt, Samuel
Buss, William
Byrne, Andrew
Cadman, Elizabeth
Cadman, John
Caesar, John
Cahuac, John
Calcott, Richard
Careless, William
Carmen, Edmund
Chapman, William 1768-1810
Chartres, George
Cheers, Jane
Cheers, Richard
Clarkson, Thomas
Cluer, William
Cobcroft, John Frederick
Cohen, Henry
Collicott, Thomas
Collington, James
Cookney, George
Cooper, Daniel
Cooper, Robert
Crossley, George
Crowley, Catherine
Cubitt, Daniel
Cunningham, Philip
Curtis, Ann
Dalley, Catherine
Dalley, John
Davis, Ann (1759-1789)
Davis, Ann (1773-1854)
Davis, John
Davis, William
Dawson, Margaret
Diacono, Salvatore
Doody, John
Doyle, Andrew Hastings
Dudgeon, Elizabeth
Eagar, Edward
Eccles, Elizabeth (Betty)
Eccles, Thomas
Egan, Brian
Everingham, Matthew
Farrell, Elizabeth
Farrell, Philip
Fidden, Joseph
Fincham, John
Fisher, Frederick
Fitzgerald, Richard
Fitzpatrick, James
Flannagan, Robert
Flood, Joseph
Forbes, Francis Ewen
Freeman, James
Fulton, Henry
Galvin, Thomas (Paddy)
Gambling, George
Gannon, Michael
Gardiner, Andrew
Geoghegan, Edward
George, Ann
Germaine, Ann
Gerrald, Joseph
Ghost, Bathsheba
Girard, François
Glade, John
Gleeson, John
Glossop, Ann
Goodaire, Ruth
Gorrick, Isaac
Grady, Mary
Gray, Dorothy
Green, Alexander
Greenway, Francis
Griffiths, Jonathan
Griffiths, Thomas
Hacking, Henry
Hall, Charles
Hall, Joseph
Halloran, Laurence Hynes
Hannan, Reuben
Harrex, James
Hart, Catherine
Hartog, Haan
Harvey, Henry
Haslem, Samuel
Henry, William
Higgins, Eleanor
Higgins, Thomas
Hill, John
Hill, Thomas
Hill, William
Hilton, Elizabeth
Hilton, Joseph
Hindley, John
Hodges, John
Hollister, Timothy
Holmes, Susannah
Horne, Samuel Henry
Hume, Andrew
Humes, Samuel
Hutchinson, William
Hyndes, Charlotte
Hyndes, Thomas Pinnick
Inett, Ann
Iredale, Lancelot
Irving, John
Jackson, Richard
James, William
Jenkins, James
Jenkins, John
Jenner, Richard
Jilks, George
Johnson, Mary (convict)
Joseph, Moses
Josephson, Jacob
Judd, Daniel
Kable, Henry
Kilpack, David
Kirkman, Thomas
Knatchbull, John
Knight, William
Laritsos, Georgios
Larra, James
Lavell, Henry
Lawson, Sarah
Leak, Jonathan
Leighton, John
Lett, Stafford Squire
Levey, Solomon
Lewis, John
Lewis, John (d 1794)
Lightfoot, Samuel
Lock, Jonathon
Lock, Robert
Long, William
Lord, Mary
Lord, Simeon
Lucas, Nathaniel
Lucas, Olivia
Lycett, Joseph
Magee, Eleanor
Mann, David Dickinson
Manolis, Antonis
Margarot, Maurice
Marshall, George
Marshall, Mary
Martin, James
Mash, Ann
McDonald, John
McIntyre, John
McKane, Patrick
Mealmaker, George
Meehan, James
Merrick, Edward
Merriman, Mary
Milcow, Constantin
Miller, Matthew 'Matt'
Moore, Isaac
Moore, Rachel
Morand, Monsieur
Morgan, Francis
Morgan, Mary (Molly)
Morley, James
Morris, John C
Moulds, Simon
Muir, Thomas
Nelson, Isaac
Newland, William
Nichols, Isaac
Ninis, Damianos
Oatley, James
Packer, Charles
Palmer, Thomas Fyshe
Papandreou, Nikolaos
Pardoe, Mary
Parkes, John
Payten, Isaac
Pearce, Aaron
Pearce, Villiers
Peat, Hannah
Pembroke, Thomas Michael
Pierce, Aaron
Posich, Stefano
Powers, John
Rampling, James
Randall, John
Redfern, William
Redman, John
Redmond, Edward
Reibey, Mary
Reynolds, William
Roberts, William
Robinson, Michael Massey
Rodius, Charles
Rope, Anthony
Rope, Elizabeth
Rose, Thomas
Ruse, James
Ryan, John
Ryan, Thomas
Salter, George
Selwyn, Elizabeth
Shaw, Shadrach
Shepherd, James
Sidaway, Robert
Skirving, William
Small, John
Smith, Charles
Smith, Charles snr
Squire, James
St Leon, Matthew
Stanton, Mary
Steel, Elizabeth
Stephens, Charles
Stroumboulis, Konstantinos
Tattersdale, Thomas
Tawell, John
Terry, Samuel
Thompson, Andrew
Thompson, Matthew Pearson
Thorn, Sarah
Thrush, Thomas
Tiffen, Robert
Tucker, James
Underwood, James
Vandebus, Jane
Vandiest, John
Vasilakis, Georgios
Voulgaris, Ghikas
Wade, Mary
Warby, John
Watling, Thomas
Watts, Joseph John
Weavers, James
West, Thomas
Whalan, Charles
Whitlam, Sarah
Williams, Charles
Williams, John 1816-1873
Wilson, Jane
Wilson, Joseph
Wiltshire, Charles
Wiseman, Solomon
Woolf, Aaron
Worrall, William George
Yeates, Ann
Convict lumber yard, Parramatta
Eastern Farms
Emu Plains Government Agricultural Establishment
Government lumber yard
Longbottom Government Farm
Parramatta Female Factory Precinct
Pennant Hills Government Establishment
'An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. younger, of Huntershill ..... August, 1793, for sedition' 1794
'The Old Commodore' Billy Blue c1830
A Fleet of Transports under Convoy c1782
A government jail gang, Sydney N.S. Wales c1826
A murder committed near Parramatta 1794
Account of an escape by an unknown convict c1840
Are You Afraid To Die? Religious tract found during archaeological dig at Hyde Park Barracks
Billy Blue 1834
Billy Blue, the Old Commodore, 1834
Bricks made by convicts c1789 and a keystone inscribed with Major Robert Ross's initials, photographed c1924
Bust of Thomas Muir, 2003, by Alexander Stoddart, Bishopbriggs Library, Glasgow
Cessation of transportation celebrations, Launceston, VDL 1853
Citizen Margarot Delegate from the London Corresponding Society to the British Convention 1794
Citizen Skirving Secretary to the British Convention - A Tried Patriot and an Honest Man 1794
Cockle Bay, now Darling Harbour c1819-20
Condemned convicts leg irons, Brays Museum Sydney 10 August 1891
Convict Barrack Sydney N.S. Wales c1819
Convict road gang going up King Street c1843
Convict uprising at Castle Hill 5 March 1804
Convicts in New Holland 1793
Convicts in iron gang working on roads 1845
Convicts letter writing at Cockatoo Island 1849
Description of the execution of Thomas Barrett in Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal, 27 February 1788
Description of the trial and execution of Thomas Barrett in Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal, February 1788
Detail of Panorama of Sydney 1829
Enmore House 1836-1840, described by Rolf Boldrewod
Entry in the ship's Musters for Mary Haddock, alias James Burrows, 1792
First fleet storeship Borrowdale c1786
First page of the List of Female Convicts on board the Lady Penrhyn, from the journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth May 1787
Forgotten justice
Francis Howard Greenway
Gang of convicts working in a quarry around Millers Point c1821
George Barrington c1785
George Mealmaker 1793
Government Public Notice concerning Elizabeth Davis who absconded from the Female Factory at Parramatta August 1831
Government lumber yard 1813
Hyde Park Barracks, Macquarie Street, Sydney 2006
Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney c1840-1850
John Jenkins 1834
Joseph Gerrald A Delegate to the British Convention 1794
King Street looking east c1843
Last page of the List of Female Convicts on board the Lady Penrhyn, from the journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth May 1787
Major George Johnston and one of the rebel leaders during the Castle Hill rebellion 5 March 1804
Mary Hyde (Mrs Simeon Lord) 1854-1865
Mary Reibey c1835
Matthew St Leon 1882
Norfolk Island flogging 1823
Page from Collin's 'Account of the English colony in New South Wales' about the death of John Lewis 1794
Page from Philip Gidley King's private journal describing ships in the First Fleet October 1786
Page from the journal kept by marine John Easty on the Scarborough, covering 15 February - 8 March 1788
Part of the Harbour of Port Jackson, and the country between Sydney and the Blue Mountains, New South Wales c1819
Petition by Jane Wilson and Elizabeth Miller for relief, heard by Bank of England Committee for Lawsuits 19 November 1818
Petition to the Bank of England Directors from Jane Wilson and Elizabeth Miller for relief in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, 17 November 1818
Plan of Parramatta Female Factory, c1822
Police report on John Knatchbull January 1844
Prisoners now Emigration Barracks and the Colonial Architects Office 1837
Public notice: the undermentioned Persons have obtained Certificates, or Tickets of Leave, during the last Week, 28 October 1824
Quartermaster Laycock slicing Phillip Cunningham with a sword during the convict rebellion at Castle Hill 5 March 1804
Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : Address to convicts on their arrival. 1819
Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : Address to convicts on their arrival. 1819
Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : a depositary for the savings of the poor. 1819
Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : a depositary for the savings of the poor. 1819
Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : a depositary for the savings of the poor. 1819
Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : a depositary for the savings of the poor. 1819
Response from the Bank of England's Committee of Lawsuits to a petition for relief by Jane Wilson in Horsemonger Lane Gaol 21 January 1819
Riot at the Female Factory 1827
Rules and Regulations for the Management of Female Convicts in the New Factory at Parramatta 1821
Sarah Lawson, late 1790s
Selection of Police Incident reports from the Sydney Herald in 1831 involving women who were sent to the Female Factory
Simeon Lord c1830
Solomon Wiseman c1820-38
Sydney Cove, Port Jackson March 1788
The Charlotte passing through the Chatham Islands 1788
The Economy of Human Life - book found during the archaeological dig at Hyde Park Barracks
The Edinburgh convicts and Farewell to Scotland 1850s
The Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments... 25 October 1825
The Names of the Ships, their Commanders & co 22 March 1787 - first part - from the journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth aboard the Lady Penrhyn
The Names of the Ships, their Commanders & co 22 March 1787 - second part - from the journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth aboard the Lady Penrhyn
The Rev'd TF Palmer 1793
The Scarborough passing through the Chatham Islands 1788
The anti-transportation movement 1851
The departure of Thomas Muir from New South Wales 18 February 1796
The front of the Charlotte Medal 1788
The landing of the convicts at Botany Bay 1788
The telegraph: a consolatory epistle manuscript from Thomas Muir to Hon. Henry Erskine, late Dean of faculty 1796
Theft from the lumber yard 1829
Thomas Muir
Thomas Muir 1793
Thomas Muir Esqr, Younger of Huntershill, 1793
Thomas Muir, engraved by T Holloway from a bust modelled by Tho Banks 1795
Ticket of leave no 28/102 issued to William Anson, 16 May 1828, signed by Alexander McLeay, Colonial Secretary
To the Editor of the Australian, on the decease of persons dying in public hospitals, December 1824
Transported for Sedition c1794
View of Sydney from the west side of the Cove c1806
Ways and Means or the Last Shift, cartoon featuring Parramatta Female Factory c1844
Wednesday August 15th 1787, from the journal of private marine John Easty on the Scarborough
Woman doing laundry at the Parramatta Female Factory c1844
Women doing laundry at the Parramatta Female Factory c1844
'Convict Theatre: A radio movie about a highway robber turned patron of the arts: Robert Sidaway', from These Walls Have Ears: The Artists, 2013
Bonney Djuric on the Parramatta Female Factory 2009