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Plan of Parramatta Female Factory, c1822

By
Standish Lawrence Harris
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1357068 / C 225 - C 226]
(Mitchell Library)

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Harris, Standish Lawrence

State Library of New South Wales

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.

Convicts

Women's prisons

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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