Convict Fremantle
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Convict Fremantle
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Author : Michal Bosworth
language : en
Publisher: ISBS
Release Date : 2004
Convict Fremantle written by Michal Bosworth and has been published by ISBS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
Michael Bosworth takes the reader on a fascinating journey through nineteenth century Fremantle, a journey centred on the grim complex of buildings set up to house the prisoners.
Voyage Of The Hougoumont And Life At Fremantle
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Author : Thomas McCarthy Fennell
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2001-03-13
Voyage Of The Hougoumont And Life At Fremantle written by Thomas McCarthy Fennell and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Like many 19th century Irish immigrants, Thomas McCarthy Fennell arrived in the United States to start a new life. Unlike other Irishmen, however, Fennell arrived on America’s West coast by ship. He was a thirty year old ex-convict recently discharged from an Australian prison. As a condition of release he could not return to his native land. His crime? Treason, or as the Crown’s trial judge put it, “compassing” against Queen Victoria. In the tumultuous 1860s Fennell organized Fenians – Irish and Irish-American Nationalists who sought by force to rid Ireland of Britain’s dominance. He fought and was wounded in the 1867 Uprising, hardly a footnote in history, yet England’s great Prime Minister, Gladstone, would refer to it as “the first streak of dawn.” And indeed it added to the foundation that would eventually lead to the Republic of Ireland. Fennell was transported to Australia on the last prison ship dispatched there by Britain, the Hougoumont, a converted merchant vessel. On board for three months with 280 other convicts, Fennell and a small group of Fenians including John Boyle O’Reilly and John Sarsfield Casey (The Galtee Boy) stayed together. They prayed, sang and entertained each other. They even published a weekly newspaper. Fennell was in Western Australia, a colony that wanted convict labor, for over three years; first at Fremantle Prison and then on a chain gang. Pardoned in 1871 by Victoria, he made his way to America where he eventually settled in Elmira, New York. He remained active in the movement and was the one to propose the famous Catalpa Rescue of 1876. This is the true story of Fennell’s incarceration, in his own words. Here he describes the humiliations and horrors of being a political prisoner thrown in with murderers, rapists and other criminals of the worst kind. He recounts floggings, daily strip searches and death at sea. Yet he and his fellow Fenians triumphed in the end, and Fennell would write his story. Now, Fennell’s 70,000 word manuscript is available to the public for the first time. Articles by Walter McGrath and Matthew Bermingham accompany the text, along with other supplementary information, extensive footnotes, photographs and illustrations. What’s being said about this book - “With a useful introductory essay, the editorial annotations, a good selection of illustrations, a selection of Fenian poetry and a number of articles to provide context, Fennell and King have made a valuable contribution to Western Australian history." H.A. Willis, The West Australian “You are to be congratulated on the high standard of the edition. It will be an important addition to the National Library’s collection.” Noel Kissane, Keeper of the Manuscripts National Library of Ireland “To have a record of daily life in the Prison during the 19th century and in such detail – is of inestimable value to us.” Rob Besford,Fremantle Prison, WA "This voyage is of additional significance as it brought the last shipload of convicts to the Australian penal settlement." The Irish Times “I’d like to compliment you on bringing such a wonderful new source of Fenian biography to light so expertly.” Keith Amos, author of The Fenians In Australia “I am pleased to add this to our collection as it will be extremely useful for research on the Fenians. There are so few first hand accounts of convict/Fenian life, making this all the more important.” David Whiteford, The Battye Library, Australia “Marie King and Philip Fennell have combined their efforts to provide historical context and then present the purest form of these memoirs.” John Benson, Pawling News Chronicle
Unwilling Emigrants
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Author : Lady Alexandra Hasluck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Unwilling Emigrants written by Lady Alexandra Hasluck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Convicts categories.
Convicts In The Colonies
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Author : Lucy Williams
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2018-09-30
Convicts In The Colonies written by Lucy Williams and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-30 with Social Science categories.
“A book that looks deeply into the lives of some of the convicts who were sentenced in court to be transported to Botany Bay.” —Pirates and Privateers In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empires most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia—from the first to the final fleet. Using the latest original research, Convicts in the Colonies reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies—New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land, and Western Australia—this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishments in history. “An easily read, fascinating history, telling the tales of the ‘recidivist’ convicts in the 18th and 19th centuries.” —The Essex Family Historian
Convict Prison Fremantle
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Author : Edgar langley Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Convict Prison Fremantle written by Edgar langley Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Prisons categories.
The Brand On His Coat
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Author : Rica Erickson
language : en
Publisher: Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press ; Beaverton, Or. : International Scholarly Book Services
Release Date : 1983
The Brand On His Coat written by Rica Erickson and has been published by Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press ; Beaverton, Or. : International Scholarly Book Services this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Biographies of selected convicts transported to Western Australia between 1850 and 1868 ; references to contact with Aboriginal people.
The Catalpa Rescue
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Author : Peter FitzSimons
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-04-23
The Catalpa Rescue written by Peter FitzSimons and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with History categories.
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa to rescue the men from the stone walls of this hell on Earth known to the inmates as a 'living tomb'. What follows is one of history's most stirring sagas that splices Irish, American, British and Australian history together in its climactic moment. For Ireland, who had suffered English occupation for 700 years, a successful escape was an inspirational call to arms. For America, it was a chance to slap back at Britain for their support of the South in the Civil War; for England, a humiliation. And for a young Australia, still not sure if it was Great Britain in the South Seas or worthy of being an independent country in its own right, it was proof that Great Britain was not unbeatable. Told with FitzSimons' trademark combination of arresting history and storytelling verve, The Catalpa Rescue is a tale of courage and cunning, the fight for independence and the triumph of good men, against all odds.
Transforming The Colony
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Author : Sean Winter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2017-08-21
Transforming The Colony written by Sean Winter and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-21 with Social Science categories.
Between 1850 and 1868, approximately 10,000 British convicts were transported to Western Australia, in one of the final phases of global penal transportation. The arrival of these men utterly transformed the small Swan River Colony, bringing capital, labour, population influx, and contact with the outside world. Yet their contribution has been downplayed in Western Australian history, outweighed by a sense of shame that the first free Australian colony requested voluntary conversion to penal status in order to survive. This book, based on the author’s PhD research in archaeology, investigates the lives of convicts transported to Western Australia, and in particular, how their presence in the colony served as a form of modernity, fundamentally transforming it in the process. It focuses on the use of the administrative category of the ticket-of-leave to allow convict labour to be used throughout the colony. As such, the text examines the impact of the convict system on regional areas of Western Australia concentrating on the Eastern District communities of Guildford, Toodyay and York, and the convicts who worked there. Using archaeological data from three convict depots, supported by a range of other data sources such as historical documents, genealogical information and oral histories, the nature of convict life in the regions is teased out. In the process, the unique nature of the Western Australian penal colony is demonstrated and the contribution of convicts to the history of the state explored.
Building A Colony
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Author : Jacqui Sherriff
language : en
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Building A Colony written by Jacqui Sherriff and has been published by UWA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
For anyone interested in the convicts and their legacy in Western Australia, this issue of Studies in Western Australian History is not to be missed. It contains articles addressing the journey of the convicts to the colony, detailing case studies highlighting different aspects of the convict experience, demonstrating the legacy of the convicts' labor in building the colony, discussing the surprising lack of debate and research into the convict era in Western Australia, and supplying reference and research tools to assist anyone wishing to delve into the archives to trace a convict themselves. A list of the latest in academic research produced between 1997 and 2005 on an extraordinary range of Western Australian history topics is also included in this volume.
Lags
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Author : Bill Edgar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Lags written by Bill Edgar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Convict labor categories.
The early settlers at the Swan River determined they would remain a free settlement, but after twenty years of unremitting struggle, as their economic circumstances became perilous, they were forced to petition the British Government for convicts and the much needed labour their presence would bring.Between 1850 and 1868, close to 10,000 male convict arrived in Western Australia from Britain. Far from being the detrimental influence many predicted, the 'lags', the detritus from the iniquities of the English legal and penal systems, injected new life into an stagnant economy. Despite a high percentage of original serious criminality among them, the vastly different environment in this most isolated of British settlements had a positive influence on these refugees from the cruel prisons and hulks of the Home country.The convict system in W.A. proved to be forward and benign by comparison with the systems of earlier decades in New South Wales and Tasmania. In consequence, many of the convicts who were landed at Fremantle subsequently became valuable citizens, helping to lay the foundations of early, modern Western Australia.