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Dorothy Handland (born Dorothy Coolley; c. 1705/26 -) was perhaps the oldest convict transported on the First Fleet.
Mary Wade (17 December 1775 – 17 December 1859) was a British teenager and convict who was transported to Australia when she was 13 years old. She was the youngest convict aboard Lady Juliana, part of the Second Fleet. Her family grew to include five generations and over 300 descendants in her own lifetime.
The average age of a convict was around twenty-seven years. The oldest male was Joseph Owen, who was in his early sixties; the youngest was a nine-year-old chimney sweep called John Hudson, transported for seven years for stealing some clothes and a pistol.
The Western Australian records we've been using for our recent research and digitised for the Digital Panopticon project reveal the story of Samuel Speed, the last living Australian convict. He was transported to Western Australia in 1866 and died in 1938, just short of his 100th birthday.
After 93 nights in the Newgate Prison Mary set sail for Australia. King George III was declared mad. As a result, many waiting to be executed were instead bound for transportation to the penal colony of Australia. At 10 years old, Mary took voyage, the youngest ever convict, aboard the Lady Juliana.
He has an estimated net worth of 1.2 billion dollars , initially starting from being a male prostitute in Sydney's red light district of Kings Cross in an area known as The Wall, and was described in June 2021 as "Australia's most wanted man".
Gino and Mark Stocco are two of the most wanted fugitives in the nation at present. They are suspected of number of serious criminal offences, including stealing firearms, burning down farms, killing animals, damaging and destroying property, and various acts of identity fraud.
Age of criminal responsibility
In Australia, children under the age of 10 years cannot be charged with a criminal offence. If they are between 10 and 14 years old, the prosecution has to show that they knew what they were doing was seriously wrong for a case to continue.
Ivan Milat, (1944–2019) convicted of the murder of seven young men and women between 1989 and 1993; known as Australia's most prolific serial killer. His crimes are collectively referred to as the "Backpacker murders".
South Australia was an experimental British colony and the only Australian colony which did not officially take convicts.
About 20,000 or 12.3% of the convicts transported to Australia were women.
New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the British as a penal colony in 1788. Over the next 80 years, more than 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, in lieu of being given the death penalty.
On 9 January 1868 the convict ship Hougoumont arrived at the port of Fremantle in Western Australia. On board were 269 convicts. They were the last convicts to be sent to Australia. The ship's arrival marked the end of 80 years of penal transportation to Australia.
The Western Australia Police Force is responsible for policing the world's largest single police jurisdiction, covering Western Australia's 2.5 million square kilometres with over 150 police stations across 8 metropolitan and 7 regional districts.
John Frederick "Chow" Hayes (7 September 1911 – 7 May 1993) was an Australian criminal who became known as Australia's first gangster.
Identity crime has become one of the most common and fastest growing crimes in Australia. Each year around five percent of the adult population, or about 900,000 people, report being a victim of identity crime resulting in a financial loss.
The valuations of Gina Rinehart ($37.41 billion) and Andrew Forrest ($33.29 billion), the richest and second-richest Australians for the fourth year in a row, surged 10 per cent and 8 per cent respectively as listed-market analysts re-rated their outlook for red Pilbara dirt.
By far the most common crime that led to transportation was petty theft or larceny. Historians estimate that roughly a third to three-fifths of the male convict population came under the category of 'other larcenies'.
Thomas was later returned to the prison, but Hannan has been on the run for over sixty years. In 2001, Hannan overtook double killer Leonard Fristoe's record of 45 years and 11 months as a fugitive.
A desperate escape attempt occurred on 25 January 1859 soon after construction of the Convict Establishment was completed. Peter Campbell, Henry Stevens, John Haynes, John William and Stephen Lacey who were on a work party in Fremantle absconded into the bush and made their way up river to Melville Waters.