THE CONVICTS

This page has information about the convicts. Some will be books and links.

CONVICTS AND AUSTRALIA.

This site has information on convicts and other interesting links - http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~cathyd

The following sites have links to information about the convicts, convict ships, convict women, W.A. convicts, convict tales, voyage details, convict trials. There is also information about the ships that carried the convicts.
Dudbrook arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on February 2, 1853
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa7.html

Sea Park arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on April 5, 1854
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa12.html

Palmerston arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on February 11, 1861
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa28.html

Clyde arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on May 29, 1863
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa33.html

Racehorse arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on August 10, 1865
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa37.html

Convict Women listed on the following site:-
http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~cathyd/WC1798.htm

Mary Reiby - The lady on the current Australian twenty dollar note http://www.attgendept.nsw.gov.au/bdm/bdm.nsf/pages/fw3

Convicts Tales

On this page I have listed some books about the convicts. When I have time I will give some description of these books. They are available in some of Australia's public libraries.

Experiences of a convict edited by G.A. Wilkes and A.G. Mitchell 994 MOR

Settlers and Convicts by an Emigrant Mechanic with a foreward by
C.M.H. Clark 994 HAR

Convicts Maids. The Forced Migration of Women to Australia by Deborah Oxley 994 OXL Oxley's analysis of 7000 convict indents from 1826 to the end of transportation in 1840.

Letters from Irish Australia 1825-1929 Patrick O'Farrel 994 OFA

The Crimes of the First Fleet Convicts. Complied and Preface by John Cobley. Foreward by C.M.H.Clark. 994.02 COB

The Crimes of the Lady Juliana Convicts 1790. John Cobley 944.02 COB

The Women of Botany Bay. A Remarkable account of the lives of Convict Women after 200 years of silence. Portia Robinson 994.02 ROB

Irish Women in Colonial Australia edited by Trevor McCLAUGHLIN. 994.004 IRI
This book has a story by eight authors: Portia Robinson, Richard Davis, Robin Haines, Richard Reid, Eric Richards and Ann Herraman, Libby Connors and Bernadette Turner, Pauline Rule, Trevor McClaughlin, and David Fitzpatick.

Convicts and Colonial Society 1788 - 1868 Edited by L. Evans & P. Nicholls 994.02 (second edition)