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There is thus some overlap with Prison Registers 1770-1951 and Hulks Registers 1801-1879, Assignment lists, and other record series that list convicts by ships, such as the British Transportation Registers 1787-1867. Convict Indents were foundational documents for other record sets.
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Seeking to pre-empt the French colonial empire from expanding into the region, Britain chose Australia as the site of a penal colony, and in 1787, the First Fleet of eleven convict ships set sail for Botany Bay, arriving on 20 January 1788 to found Sydney, New South Wales, the first European settlement on the continent.
France and Botany Bay : the lure of a penal colony : Forster, Colin, 1926- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Forster, Colin, 1926- Publication date. 1996. Topics. Penal colonies -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History, Deportation -- France -- History, New South Wales -- History. Publisher.
determine why the British government in 1786 decided to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay on the east coast of the newly discovered New South Wales that was situated many thousands of kilometres from English ports and outposts.
An early map of Botany Bay, site of the first Australian penal colony. Australian penal colonies refers to the transportation of approximately 162,000 prison convicts from Britain and Ireland to Australia and Tasmania in the eighty year period between 1788 and 1868.
Botany Bay: an imperial venture of the i78os IN arguing that the Pitt administration had no purpose in colonizing New South Wales other than that of ridding Britain of its too-numerous convicts, Mollie Gillen presents a view that has long held sway in the historiography of British imperialism.1 In the context of
Botany Bay: the settlement of criminals in New South Wales in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries prisoners would be crammed. For those convicts who remained in Sydney, lodgings were available in a neighbourhood called The Rocks.
