Sentenced beyond the Seas

Australia’s early convict records

30 August 2013

State Records Open Day

Janette Pelosi

Sentenced beyond the Seas

• Transportation – but where to?

• ‘America’

• ‘Africa’ or

• ‘parts beyond the Seas’

Destination ‘Botany Bay’

• August 1786 decision made

• 11 ships were prepared including 6 convict transports, 2 naval ships and 3 storeships

• 26 January 1788

Alphabetical Indents, 1788-1800

Return from transportation

• Governor Hunter and the return of Pearce

A case of fraud

• Marquis Cornwallis

Sir Henry Browne Hayes

First owner of Vaucluse House

Sir Henry Browne Hayes, sheriff of Cork

H. B. Hayes, convict per Atlas, 1802

Return of the Alphabetical Indent

Bibliography

• Charles Bateson, The convict ships 1787-1868. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 2004. 1st published 1959.

• Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1989.

• Barbara Hall, A Desperate Set of Villains: the convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis, Ireland to Botany Bay, 1796. The Author, 2000.

• David T. Hawkings, Bound for Australia. Sydney, Library of Australia History, 1988 (Act transcribed, Appendix 18, pp.249-253.)

• Sir Henry Browne Hayes website (www.sirhenrybrownehayes.com)

• [Photographs of Sydney’s First Fleet ferries taken by Janette Pelosi]

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