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To be launched soon,
Convicts at Cascades: Stories of convict women at the Cascades Female Factory

This book, compiled by the FFRG, will be available through the Female Factory Historic Site shop.

What's New?

A Surgeon's Story

Riot at New Town Farm Probation Station

Punishment at Cascades FF

Inquest into Nursery Death

Mistress-convict relationship

Convict Clothing:
Female Factory
Anson
on voyage

A bid for freedom

Task Work

A vist to the Queen's Orphan Schools 1853

List of Children born to female convicts under sentence between 1845 and 1857

Inquiry into Female Prison Discipline

 

Interesting Snippets

Profiles

A visit to Brickfields

Escape from Hobart Town Female Factory

A Love Letter

Arrival of the Martin Luther

Escape from Brickfields

Report of an inquest on the death of a child at Launceston Female Factory

 

The Female Factory Research Group:

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provides a forum for the discussion of issues related to female convicts

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maintains the Female Family Founders Database

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runs a research & transcription service for female convict records

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hosts events celebrating the lives of female convicts

We aim to provide information about:

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female convicts

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female factories

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female probation stations

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female hiring depots

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nurseries

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employees

 

Contribute to our research
by

submitting details of your link to a female convict ancestor to our database

submitting an employee ancestor to our website

 

Visit our site research room
for information on our

Female Family Founders Database

Research & Transcription Service

 

Have you changed your contact details since submitting your convict?  If so, please let us know.

Lists

Convicts in
Female Family Founders Database

(updated 7 May 2008)

Convicts at:
Cascades Female Factory
George Town Female Factory
Hobart Female Factory
Launceston Female Factory
Ross Female Factory

Anson Probation Station
(incomplete lists)
(updated 7 May 2008)

Female convicts who died under sentence

Infants who died at nurseries in Hobart between 1829 and 1856 and at Ross Female Factory 1856

 

Children born to female convicts under sentence between 1845 and 1857

 

References to Female Convict Ships to Van Diemen's Land

 

Female Convicts in Hospital in 1846

 

1841 Muster Roll - Female Convicts

 

Riots, Disturbances & Insubordination

 

 

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