Category: Macquarie Harbour Penal Colony

Categories: Australian Convict Penal Colonies | Van Diemen's Land (1825-1856)

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The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a former British colonial penal settlement, established on Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour in the former colony of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, Australia, operated between 1822 and 1833 the settlement housed mainly male convicts, with a small number of women during its 11 years of operation, the penal colony achieved a reputation as one of the harshest penal settlements in the Australian colonies

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1805 Lancashire, England
25 May 1825 Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, Australia - 05 Jul 1843
abt 1773 Honiton, Devon, England - 20 Mar 1844 photo
abt 1785 Scotland - 09 Feb 1857
abt 1790 Dorset, England - 04 May 1826 photo
abt 1800 Dundee City, Scotland, United Kingdom
abt 1802 Yorkshire, England - 07 Oct 1891
1790 County Monaghan, Ireland - 19 Jul 1824 photo
abt 1800 London, England - aft May 1847
20 Aug 1793 Norfolk Island, Australia - 03 Jan 1876




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