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Jun 4, 2018 · Approximately 25,000 of these convicts were women, charged with petty crimes such as stealing bread. “Half the women landed in mainland Australia and half in Tasmania. Less than 2 per cent were violent felons. For crimes of poverty, they were typically sentenced to six months inside Newgate Prison, a six-month sea journey, seven to 10 years ...
e. Convict women in Australia were British prisoners whom the government increasingly sent out during the era of transportation (1787–1868) in order to develop the penal outpost of New South Wales (now a state of Australia) into a viable colony. The women would be employed in 'factories' (equivalent of the English workhouse) but often had to ...
Nov 28, 2018 · The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country--over two million. Roughly 200,000 of them are female. But existing American prisons are often ill-equipped to handle the specific needs of ...
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Female convicts. The London convict maid, a cautionary tale of life in the colony, circa 1830, nla.obj-1117449. Female convicts were predominantly young, single women who had been domestic servants and/or who had come from a semi-skilled background - such as an apprenticeship. The majority of female convicts were first time offenders sentenced ...
Jan 10, 2012 · From the very onset, convict women had three possible roles open to them: whore, indentured worker, wife/mistress or a combination of these. The construction of these roles began almost from the ...
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The Female Convicts Research Centre promotes interest in the female convicts of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), by encouraging and facilitating research. From 1803 to 1853, 13,500 female convicts were transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), as punishment for crimes, mainly theft.
Welcome to Ironclad Sisterhood: Telling the Stories of Convict Women. Ironclad Sisterhood is a collaborative research project focused upon reimagining the lives of convict women in New South Wales. Based on the original research notes of Jess Hill, a Society of Australian Genealogists’ volunteer library assistant, the team behind Ironclad ...
