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Ways and Means or the Last Shift, cartoon featuring Parramatta Female Factory c1844

By
Edward Winstanley
Raphael Clint
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a2255004 / DL PXX 66]
(Dixson Library)

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Winstanley, Edward

Clint, Raphael

State Library of New South Wales

Parramatta

Named for its traditional owners, the Burramattagal, Parramatta was the site of the second European settlement in Sydney, and an early successful farm. Until the 1850s many governors preferred to live in Parramatta Government House. The railway arrived in 1857 and the town became prosperous, with its own suburbs by the 1870s, business and industrial districts, and large medical and educational institutions.

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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Gipps, George

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Governor during the depression of the 1840s, who presided over the end of transportation of convicts.