Norfolk Island convict mutinies information

Norfolk Island convict mutinies were a series of armed uprisings by convicts on the penal colony of Norfolk Island, Australia. All were unsuccessful. The...

had received its first convicts from Britain. Norfolk Island no longer served any purpose and the last settlers and convicts were removed by February...

the island because of these events. Norfolk Island convict mutinies – With Norfolk Island being a remote penal settlement, many of the convicts were...

Bathurst Rebellion Norfolk Island convict mutinies List of Irish rebellions Silver 1989, p. 103. Whitaker 1994, pp. 43–59 "Convict Records: Henry Grady"...

examples possible. Following a convict mutiny in 1834, Father William Ullathorne, vicar general of Sydney, visited Norfolk Island to comfort the mutineers due...

strips at Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle; now representing "...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial...

convict mutinies. It was filmed for British, US and Australian television. It was also adapted for radio. In 1840, the convict settlement on Norfolk Island...

Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. When the convict station on Norfolk Island was abandoned in 1807–1808, the remaining convicts and free settlers were transported...

the convict prison settlement on Norfolk Island, implementing a regime characterized by severe discipline. This ultimately culminated in a mutiny, resulting...

Pitcairn: Children of Mutiny. 1973 Belcher, Lady – The Mutineers of the Bounty and Their Descendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands. 1870 Birkett, Dea –...

three years. Nonetheless, Norfolk Island went through periods of unrest with convicts staging a number of uprisings and mutinies between 1826 and 1846, all...

colonial Australia who was transported to New South Wales as a convict for his role in the mutiny on the Nore. He is widely regarded as the "father of Australian...

Davis on 13 February 1788 and both were sent to Norfolk Island on 2 October 1788. Cole was convicted of Burglary in Exeter, Devon and sentenced to 7 years...

then at Norfolk Island where he took up a land grant of 60 acres (Lot 71). He married first fleet convict Ann Beardsley on Norfolk Island in November...

The Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. Wager...

time on Maria Island. He was later transferred to New Norfolk on the Derwent River upstream of Hobart. Three structures from the first convict era remain...

1839 and 1869 the island was used as a convict prison. Initially, prisoners were transferred to Cockatoo Island from Norfolk Island, and were employed...

stayed on Norfolk Island. By this time, an American family named Warren settled on Pitcairn Island. During the 1860s further immigration to the island was banned...

of a military aerodrome began (now the Norfolk Island Airport). This involved the destruction of the convict-planted Pine Avenue for the east–west runway...

Beresford Garrett (c. 1818–1885), English bushranger, transported to Norfolk Island for assault Joseph Gerrald (1763–1796), West Indian-born political reformer...

on Norfolk Island. It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australian) authorities within the modern-day boundaries of Norfolk Island...

1822 and 1833. The settlement housed male convicts, with a small number of women housed on a nearby island. During its 11 years of operation, the penal...

Young's and the mutineers' descendants continue to live on Pitcairn Island or Norfolk Island. Bligh 1792, pp. 158–160; Hough 1972, pp. 76–77; Alexander 2003...

1826 Norfolk Island Convict Rebellion 1827–1828: Corn Field Raids of 1827-1828 1828: Cape Grim massacre 1828–1832: Black War 1829: Cyprus mutiny 1830s–1840s:...

A convict ship was any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their...