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Australian Convicts Sub-Project
Australia was initially established as a penal colony in 1788 with convict transportation ending in 1868. This is a free-space page for the Australian Convicts sub-project. The Team Leaders are Veronica Williams and Heather Stevens.
The 'Australian Convicts' sub project is part of the Australia Project. When originally conceived the project included convicts and free settlers (you read some of the historical information here). The project has now been split into a number of smaller teams, focussing on different topic areas.
See also: Project: Australia
Australian Convicts Team
Anyone wanting to be involved in the new 'Australian Convicts' team is invited to join the Australia Project by following the link to the Project joining post.
If you wish to add a team sticker to your profile, please add the following text underneath the ==Biography== section.
- Type: {{Member|Australian Convicts}}
Goal and Activities
The goals and activities for the project include:
- Identifying and creating profiles for all those who came to Australia aboard convict ships, including convicts, marines, military and crew between 1788-1868.
- Identifying and creating categories for all convict ships that came to Australia between 1788-1868.
- Applying priority to the earliest fleets.
- Ensuring profiles meet acceptable Wikitree standards and the Project Guidelines for Australian Convicts.
Project Management Tasks
- Develop project management guidelines for categorisation, template and stickers for use on Australian Convicts profiles. See 'draft guidelines' in the 'Links' section below - Veronica
- All content from the old project page has been incorporated into new pages appropriate to new team structures. You can read more about former projects here.
Priority Profile Tasks
- List of First Fleeters to Australia, 1787-1788. Most First Fleet convicts are already on this list, however many have not been linked to their profile page. This is work that can be done by any Wikitreer! If their profile doesn't exist yet - please create them!
- Convict Profiles Needing Improvement. These profiles have been identified as needing improvements to their profiles. Please remove the category if you are satisfied that the profile meets the project guidelines and has an adequate biography.
- Convict Arrival Ship Needs Voyage Category. Instructions can be found here. Please remember to remove the category if you have create the voyage category.
Members
- Team Leaders: Veronica Williams and Heather Stevens
- Jeanne Pepper
- Graeme Rose
- Stuart Bayliss
- Ian Bolton
- E M Ryan
- Alan Cobcroft
- Greg Hayes
- Carolyn Ball
- Maree Evans
- Mark Navin
- Susan Stopford
- Nan Hewitt
- Chris Wright
- Catherine Harrison
- Alison Palmer
- Suzanne Reilly
- Sue Wyatt
- Danielle Lautrec
- Peter Cummins
- David Urquhart
- Kaitlyn Emmett
- Elsie Gorman
- Marc Edwards
- Julie Dworak
- Julie Paton
- Steven Williams
- Larina Harper
Members Specific Interests
| Focus Area | Name |
|---|---|
| Policy and Procedure members working with others to develop and promote changes to policy and standards for Australian Convicts profiles, including documentation of project guidelines | Veronica Williams |
| Categories and Locations members focussing on the development and implementation of appropriate category structures and location fields relevant to Pre Federation 1788-1900 profiles (including those Australian Convicts) | |
| Connectors members focus is on connecting Australian Convicts profiles to our main Global Family Tree | Susan Stopford |
| Data Doctors members working together to use tools that seek out and correct errors on Australian Convicts profiles | Veronica Williams (DNA errors)| |
| Sourcerers focus on adding sources to Unsourced Australian Convicts profiles | Susan Stopford |
| All Rounders members who have an interest in helping to improve Australian Convicts profiles when needed (eg adding stickers or other new initiatives), including their own families | |
| Colony of New South Wales members who have an interest in The Colony_of_New_South_Wales | Kaitlyn Emmett (also interested in Norfolk Island) Elsie Gorman also Australia, Gorman Name Study |
| Colony of Van Diemen's Land members who have an interest in Van Diemen's Land (1825-1856) | Nan Hewitt |
| Swan River Colony members who have an interest in The Swan River Colony | |
| Colony of Queensland members who have an interest in The Colony_of_Queensland | David Urquhart |
| Colony of Victoria members who have an interest in The Colony of Victoria | |
| Colony of Western Australia members who have an interest in The Colony of Western Australia | |
| Colony of Tasmania members who have an interest in Colony of Tasmania |
Links
- The Australian Convicts Project Guidelines help Wikitreers to understand any preferred actions to be taken on profiles that fall under this topic. This includes, project boxes, stickers and categories.
- Australia Project - Project Management - This category page should help you find other relevant project material.
- Looking for convicts who need their profiles improved? Click here and jump right in!
DNA Projects
- Have you had your DNA tested? Make sure you consider joining our Wikitree DNA project.
- If you took a test at FTDNA and you have a DIRECT ancestor that was either an Australian Convict or an early Australian Settler you might like to join their Australian Convicts Project or the Australian Settlers Project.
How to get involved
Will you join us? After answering our G2G post and advising you wish to join our convict team, you will then be awarded the Australia Project badge. Alternatively, post a comment on this page, or just add your name to this list with the task you would like to do. Interested in any particular fleet, ship or colony? Feel free to take that on. We also have Colony teams are also involved in with convict profiles.
Communicating with the Team
- Australia Project Google Group.
- australian_convicts tag in G2G. Follow this and use the tag in discussions that could benefit from the input of the broader WikiTree community.
- Login to edit this profile and add images.
- Private Messages: Send a private message to the Profile Manager. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
I'd love to get involved with the Australian Convicts 1788-1868 Team please. I'm particularly interested in Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania. I've been working on the profile of Agnes Spright and have enjoyed the discoveries and resources found so much that I would love to help out further. Cheers, Elle
Veronica
edited by Veronica (Coat) Williams
I have an interest in one member of the then notorious 'The Culworth Gang' a party of stand-over thieves & highway robbers that operated in Northamptonshire, England for around 20 years before they were caught.
William Pettifer (1747-1787) ...his profile is still a 'work-in-progress'.
Unlike my guy, another of the gang (William Abbott) managed to have his death sentence commuted to transportation to NSW. https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/abbott/william/81051. Based on the recorded arrival date, he was in the 2nd fleet on the ship 'Surprize'. I don't believe we have a WT profile created yet. I have left references/sources on William Pettifer's profile.
(he was a pickpocket)
The NSW group are: David Brown, Pitt, arrived 1792 on the Pitt; Hannah Lisson, transported on the Mary Anne 1791; Thomas Lisson, Hannah's son transported on the Royal Admiral arriving 1792; Ann Bradwell arrived on the Experiment in 1804; She married Thomas Lisson, but left him and lived with Isaac Gorrick, who arrived on the Atlantic. Joseph Flood arrived on the Boddington in 1793; Ann Leader arrived on the Sydney Cove in 1806 Ann Gorman on Marquis Cornwallis in 1796; She lived with Joseph Flood. I also have John Watson who probably was a convict and arrived on the first fleet. Main evidence for this is a note in the local paper from his daughter on his death. Esther Hacker on the Indispensable in 1796. She married John Watson.
The Tasmanian group are: John Lancaster arrived in the John Renwick in 1843 William Britton arrived in Sydney on the Guildford in 1812 and then sent straight on to Tasmania. He married Ann Leader in Tasmania.
I would like to find out more about my ancestor, William Windibank, who was transported on the Captain Cook. Arrival at NSW on 26 August 1833. He was convicted at the Southampton, Portsmouth Quarter Sessions and sentenced to seven years, unknown crime.
My relation, John Herrick was sent to Australia on board the ship Daphne. He arrived in 1819 and lived in Campbelltown. He was born in Birr, County Offaly, Ireland.
I found this website, and if it isn't linked up already, I thought it might come in handy. http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/convicts.htm An Irish Convicts to NSW database by Peter Mayberry. Cheers.
Most of my 6 convict ancestors are in the Pardoe, Izard and Delandre lines, apart from Joshua Charles Gross, who arrived in 1839 on the Theresa.