Feature – Escaped Convicts With so many convicts and so many penal colonies there were bound to be some escapes. By 1814 in Tasmania there had been so many convicts escape that an amnesty was proclaimed. But by the time the deadline came for the amnesty only a handful of convicts had surrendered and … Continue reading Escaped Convicts
A timeline showing the progression of convict colonisation in Australia.
Part one starts in 1788 with Sydney established as a British convict colony on the clan lands of the Gadigal people
Conviction or Accusation? This devotion explains the difference between God's correction and Satan's Accusations.
So many stories have circled around the web this week, It’s impossible to talk about them all, but these stories truly should get our attention. One question that I kept asking wa…
Most people would be surprised to hear that children as young as nine were transported to Australia as convicts, and in fact eight convict...
In the book of Acts, praise had an astonishing effect on those who heard it. Read Acts 16:16-34. Having been stripped and beaten hard, Paul and Silas were
A concise history of convict transportation from Great Britain to Australia. this is the first installment of a series 'The Convicts'.
Separated by the penal system, Ella is determined her unborn child will know it's father.
Convicts Who Outlived The Longest Sentences
Until 1782, English convicts were transported to America. However, in 1783 the American War of Independence ended. America refused to accept any more convicts so England had to find somewhere else to send their prisoners. Transportation to New South Wales was the solution.
Seventeen years ago this month two police were ambushed and shot dead in Walsh Street, South Yarra. Four suspects stood trial but no one was ever convicted of the crime. Now, for the first time, the star witness who refused to testify comes clean as to what really happened. By John Silvester.
The convicts in the Cowpastures is an untold story of the colonial settler society of early New South Wales.
Australia was the most tattooed English-speaking colony in the nineteenth century after the arrival of British convicts. The criminals passed time at sea by tattooing themselves.
A Clark County Superior Court jury has convicted Jeffrey and Sandra Weller on a majority of the charges after a week-long child abuse trial.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty in a Virginia courtroom on Tuesday of eight charges of bank and tax fraud. The jury found Manafort guilty on five charges of filing false income tax returns, one count of failing to report foreign bank accounts and two counts of bank fraud. …
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Australian Postal History
Mugshots and prison records show the reality of Victorian criminality, by Steve Jones
