ABSCONDED CONVICTS Trove Tuesday 26th Apr 2022

 

 Details can include names, home, name of ship of arrival, age, physical description, any identifying marks, occupations/trade, sometimes personal relationships.

Note the various dates from when they absconded, some did so years before these notices.

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 20 April 1836 (No.218) National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230672154

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An example of two different types of convict labour. In the foreground are two convicts erecting a post-and-rail fence, whilst behind them an unironed gang brings timber to the Port Arthur settlement (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, DGA 64/v.1, ‘Gentlemen Convicts – The Centipede’, Thomas Lempriere, ca 1836).

Illustration no 232: ‘The carpenter’s shop’, from ‘Illustrations of useful arts, manufactures, and trades’ by Charles Tomlinson, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, [1858]. Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 4 May 1836 (No.220) National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230672289

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New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 11 May 1836 (No.221).National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230672290

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ABSCONDED CONVICTS Trove Tuesday 29th Mar 2022

 Details can include names, home, name of ship of arrival, age, physical description, any identifying marks, sometimes personal relationships.

Hobart Town Gazette (Tas. : 1825 - 1833), Saturday 25 August 1827, page 2 (3)  National Library of Australia   http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8790890

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New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 16 May 1832 (No.11) National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230388397

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Australian Prints + PrintmakingA government jail gang, Sydney N.S. Wales. (1830) by Augustus Earle (1793–1838) · Australian Prints + Printmaking

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 15 July 1835 (No.176) National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230655808

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Port Arthur Penal Settlement

ABSCONDED CONVICTS MAY 1840, JUN 1842 Trove Tuesday 4th Aug 2020

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New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 6 May 1840 (No.25)  National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230137582

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New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Friday 17 June 1842 (No.48). National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230663221

Image * Backhouse, Edward, A chain gang, convicts going to work near Sidney [i.e. Sydney], New South Wales  1843, nla.obj-138467409

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