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Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society.
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Ships Projects workshop, 18 February 2012
Our next workshop will be held at Melbourne University on Saturday, 18 February 2012 at the Centre for Health & Society, 4th Floor, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton, from 2-5 pm, with afternoon tea provided. Please meet at the "Hub" next to the lifts on the 4th floor.
This workshop is for the Ships Projecteers to report on their findings, their problems and their successes. It’s a chance to leave the lonely keyboard and share experiences and ideas.
Podcasts from the UK National Archives
One of our volunteers has drawn our attention to the UK National Archives podcast series at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/, and in particular to the episode by Jeff James entitled "From crime to punishment: criminal records of our ancestors from the 18th and 19th centuries" at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/criminal-records.htm
Episodes can be played directly from the National Archives website or downloaded for later.
Founders and Survivors Newsletter No. 9, December 2011, and Ships Projects workshop, 18 February 2012
This final issue of Chainletter for 2011 reports on our Ships Projects and our next Workshop.
David Noakes has uncovered gold, fire and bigamy aboard the ‘Palmyra’ and Jenny Wells travelling with Glad Wishart on the ‘Governor Ready’ has met up with smugglers.
Two books on Welsh convicts
Sentenced to Hell: The Story of Men and Women Transported from North Wales, 1730-1878
J. Richard Williams
Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch (2011)
ISBN: 9781845241759
Between 1730 and 1878 men and women from Anglesey, Caernarfon, Merioneth, Denbigh and Flint were sentenced to be transported from their native land to Australia or America. How did they get there? How old were they? What had they done to deserve their fate?
O Fôn i Van Diemen's Land [From Anglesey to Van Diemen's Land]
J. Richard Williams
Published in Welsh by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch (2007)
ISBN: 1845271289, 9781845271282
This book tells the story of Anne Williams of Anglesey, who was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1842 for ten years and who spent the rest of her life in Tasmania bringing up her family--who still live in the same area today.
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