convict establishment

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• convict establishment — /ˌkɒnvɪkt əˈstæblɪʃmənt/ (say .konvikt uh stablishmuhnt) noun Australian History a place where convicts were housed, as the Hyde Park Barracks, or gathered for work, as the Parramatta Factory …  

• Convict era of Western Australia — James Wilson, a convict transported to Western Australia in 1867 The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small numbers of juvenile offenders …   Wikipedia

• Ocean (convict transport ship) — Hunter Island with the ships Ocean and Pilgrim in foreground and the Lady Nelson behind the flag on the stern of the Ocean, 1804. Career …   Wikipedia

• Convicts in Australia — The Fremantle Prison whipping post. The prison was built by convict labour in the 1850s. During the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government. One… …   Wikipedia

• History of Tasmania — The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the most recent ice age (approximately 10 000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to the Australian mainland.Indigenous peopleTasmania was totally inhabited by an indigenous… …   Wikipedia

• Comptroller General of Convicts (Western Australia) — The Comptroller General of Convicts was the head of the convict establishment in Western Australia. The office existed from 1850, when Western Australia first became a penal colony, until 1872, four years after penal transportation to Western… …   Wikipedia

• Catalpa rescue — The Catalpa rescue was the escape, in 1876, of six Fenian prisoners from what was then the British penal colony of Western Australia.Fenians and plans to escapeFrom 1865 to 1867, British authorities rounded up supporters of the Irish Republican… …   Wikipedia

• John Boyle O'Reilly — (28 June 1844–10 August 1890) was an Irish born poet and novelist. As a youth in Ireland he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, for which crime he was transported to Western Australia. After escaping to the United States, he became… …   Wikipedia

• Thomas Bushell — (c. 1834 ndash;12 September 1865) was a convict transported to Western Australia. He was hanged in 1865 after attacking a warder.Thomas Bushell was born in Ireland around 1834; nothing is known of his early life. At the age of twenty two he was… …   Wikipedia

• Richard Roach Jewell — (born 1810 in Barnstaple, Devon, England died 1891 in Perth, Western Australia) was an architect who designed many of the important public buildings in Perth during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Jewell was articled(trained) as an… …   Wikipedia

• Fremantle Prison — Australian Convict Sites * UNESCO World Heritage Site Fremantle Prison, one of eleven Australian Convict Sites inscribed on the Wor …   Wikipedia