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20 March 2010
Bream Creek Show - A small country show with a big country heart. Read more
24 March 2010
Port Arthur Talks - Professor Lucy Frost
The transported children of convict mothers
Women who boarded convict transports to begin the voyage to Australia often carried infants with them or watched as their children clamoured up the sides of ships docked in London or the Irish ports. These children of convict mothers posed a conundrum for policy makers. They were not prisoners, and there was no reason to punish them. Some children sailed, and some remained behind to suffer the traumatic loss of a parent they were unlikely ever to see again. This paper suggests that the children who sailed represent an identifiable category of transportees, and by piecing together individual stories, the paper considers the experience of these children in Van Diemen’s Land. Read more
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