Hudson, John (c. Recaptured, he was sent to the Dunkirk hulk in June 1784. He was discharged to the Friendship in March 1787 and arrived in Sydney in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet. Hudson was probably the youngest male convict (when sentenced) to be sent to New South Wales.
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.
The youngest convict on the First Fleet was 13-year old John Hudson. He was convicted for breaking and entering and was sentenced to seven years in prison and transportation to Australia for his crime.
2. Mary Wade. The youngest ever convict to be transported to Australia at the age of 11. Her hideous crime was that she stole another girls clothes and for that she was sentenced to death by hanging.
Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 1 Transportation and the First Fleet. From 1788, for more than 50 years, convicts were transported from Britain to New South Wales. These included children as young as nine years of age.
It is estimated there were about 50 children on the First Fleet when it arrived at Botany Bay. Over 20 children were born at sea during the eight-month voyage.
Commonly cited as the first white child or the first white female born in Australia, Rebecca Small (22 September 1789 – 30 January 1883), was born in Port Jackson, the eldest daughter of John Small a boatswain in the First Fleet which arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788.
Hudson, John (c.
Recaptured, he was sent to the Dunkirk hulk in June 1784. He was discharged to the Friendship in March 1787 and arrived in Sydney in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet. Hudson was probably the youngest male convict (when sentenced) to be sent to New South Wales.
Beth - The Story of a Child Convict, is an incredibly moving tale inspired by the experiences of Elizabeth Hayward, the youngest female convict on the First Fleet and the journals of naval officer William Bradley and Arthur Bowes Smyth, the surgeon and artist also onboard.
The Dutch. In 1606 Captain Willem Janszoon became the first European to discover what is now Australia.
At 8.30pm the yard bell sounded and the convicts trudged up the Barracks staircases to their wards, where each man had his own numbered hammock. At night the hammock rooms were lit by oil lamps until 8.45pm, when they were put out as part of 'lights out'.
Samuel Terry (c. 1776 – 22 February 1838) was transported to Australia as a criminal, where he became a wealthy landowner, merchant and philanthropist. His extreme wealth made him by far the richest man in the colony with wealth comparable to the richer in England.
The British colony of New South Wales was established in 1788 as a penal colony.
Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18. Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
In 2007, India earned a world record for having the Youngest Serial Killer. It was never a record to be proud of. Unlike other serial killers, Amarjeet Sada was only seven years old when he committed three brutal murders. Amarjeet's poor parents were happy when they were blessed with a son.
Mary Bell is the youngest person to go to jail.
She committed her first murder in 1968 when she was 10.
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.
There were 50 children aboard the Morley Convict Ship in 1820. A list of the clothing shows that male children had a blue jacket made from Kersey cloth, a waistcoat, trousers, three shirts, two pairs of stockings, a woollen cap, a neckerchief and a pair of shoes.
THE FIRST FLEET
They carried around 1400 convicts, soldiers and free people. The journey from England to Australia took 252 days and there were around 48 deaths on the voyage.
Notable sentences
The longest non-parole period imposed for a single murder is 35 years, being served by Melbourne CBD gunman Christopher Wayne Hudson (Victoria).
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.
Barrett and two of his co-conspirators were sentenced to execution; the other two were subsequently reprieved, but Barrett was hanged on 27 February 1788, becoming the first person executed in the new colony.
Madalena Carnauba of Ceilândia, Brazil married at 13 and gave birth to 32 children: 24 sons and 8 daughters. Ms Olivera (born 1939) of San Juan, Argentina, gave birth to her 32nd child on 31 January 1989. All children were believed to be alive at that time.
first white woman in Australia. In September 1963, the late Henry Shoobridge of Bushy Park, Tasmania, who was a well know local identity and hop grower, placed the present tombstone and plaque on the grave of pioneer Betty King.
Horsham's Brenton Hallam arrived on his due date, January 1, 2000. In a night which beckoned to cause chaos around the world, Wimmera Base Hospital experienced no serious problems as Mr Hallam arrived into the world.