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.
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.
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.
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.
Not sure where to start? From January 1788, when the First Fleet of convicts arrived at Botany Bay, to the end of convict transportation 80 years later, over 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia.
Five child convicts under the age of 16 arrived with the First Fleet. ''More than 160,000 convicts were ultimately transported to Australian colonies on about 800 ships,'' writes Harris. ''As many as 25,000 were under 18, with between 10,000 and 13,000 young boys dispatched to Van Diemen's Land.
When transportation ended with the start of the American Revolution, an alternative site was needed to relieve further overcrowding of British prisons and hulks. Earlier in 1770, James Cook charted and claimed possession of the east coast of Australia for Britain.
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.
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.
Dorothy Handland is claimed to be the oldest female convict to have sailed on the First Fleet and one of the most colourful.
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.
“The convict men were transported first and soon outnumbered women nine to one in Australia. You can't have a colony without women so the female convicts were specifically targeted by the British government as 'tamers and breeders'.”
The First Fleet was the expedition that established the first permanent European colony on the continent of Australia. A British naval officer named Arthur Phillip led the expedition and served as the first governor of the colony.
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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.
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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.
Captain Arthur Phillip RN was the commander of the First Fleet of 11 ships that sailed into Botany Bay, New South Wales, in January 1788. Three days later he chose a site at nearby Sydney Cove, in Port Jackson, and on 26 January began to establish a convict settlement.
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.
South Australia was an experimental British colony and the only Australian colony which did not officially take convicts.