Our Convict Heritage

Here is a quick list of our known convicts to date.  As the tree grows I am sure more will be added

Life in Australia’s Convict Female Factories

Gallery exhibitions – National Archives of Australia.

An estimated one in five Australians has an ancestor who spent time in a convict female factory, but very little material survives from these women. Their contribution has been largely ignored, yet they are the ‘mothers of the nation’ – women with grit who survived the dire conditions [...]

The George Robert Miller Debate

Is there 1, 2 or 3 of them?

I have created this page in the hope that fellow Miller researcher’s will have a read and forward any opinion’s or clues they may have on the subject of “George Robert Miller”, or better yet add your comments below for other’s to see them as well.

Laid out below [...]

William Jones & Mary Ann Sullivan

A LITTLE JONES & SULLIVAN HISTORY

Both of these lines came to Australia as Convicts.

William JONES arrived on the "Marquis of Wellington" on 27th January 1815, aged 26, after being convicted for life at the ‘Old Bailey’ on 12 Jan 1814 for stealing sheep. "The London Chronicle", 15 Jan 1814, ‘Report from the Old Bailey’ – [...]