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The
Female Family Founders Database is an initiative of
the Female Factory
Research Group. If you have a connection to a
female convict who lived in Tasmania, please submit
your details to us.
Overview
Any female
convict who spent time in Van Diemen's Land is included
in the database. Thus, it not only includes
those women transported directly to VDL, but also
those who came free and were convicted here during
the period of transportation (1804-1853), or those
who were transported to NSW and later came to VDL
(many of whom came via Norfolk Island).
The database
has four purposes:
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to link
descendants and researchers of these convict women; |
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to act as a
repository of stories and images of these convict women; |
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to determine
which of these convict women spent time in the female factories and on the
Anson probation station; and |
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Our aim
is to have a complete database of all of these women
by 2015. At present we have the names of 13,678
female convicts in the database, including all those
transported directly to Van Diemen's Land.
Voluntary
members of the Female Factory Research Group are responsible
for the design of the database, its ongoing maintenance,
data entry and data retrieval.
Since
the some of the information for the database is submitted
by individuals, we cannot always guarantee the integrity
of the data, though attempts are made to verify the
data.
The
Female Factory Research Group has recently been awarded
a Tasmanian Community Fund grant in order to purchase
the necessary equipment to transcribe all female convict
records and enter them into the database. However,
as the transcription and data entry is voluntary,
the project will take some years to complete.
Records
in the Database
To
find a convict, click on the letter of the alphabet
with which her surname begins. You will view a list
of records from the database providing name, ship,
police number, age and number of descendants/researchers
(if any).
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X Y
Z other
(as at 7 May 2008)
If
you wish to view the
current list of records in the Female Family Founders
Database for which we have descendants and/or researchers
associated with the convict, click on the link below.
There are currently 2,195 female
convicts in the database for whom we have descendants
and/or researchers (including those people who have
adopted
a convict) who have given permission for their
contact details to be passed on to other descendants/researchers.
Convicts in the Database with
Associated Descendants/Researchers
(as at 7 May 2008)
Information
on descendants/researchers is provided to other descendants/researchers
of a convict if the appropriate permissions have been
provided—simply
email us (or write
to us, with a stamped self-addressed envelope
included) with the details of the convict.
Please
remember that the database is continually growing—new
information is added as we continue to transcribe
convict records and as it is received from descendants
and other researchers—so come back regularly to check
the list.
If your
convict appears on a list, but you have not submitted
details, please do so, so that you can be listed as
a descendant/researcher—see below,
submitting details.
Descendants
and other researchers of convict women who spent time
in Van Diemen's Land are encouraged to record the
names and details of their convict(s) and themselves
as descendants/researchers in the Female Family Founders
Database. This will enable us to put other descendants
and researchers of your convict in contact with you,
and vice versa.
To submit
your details as a descendant or researcher of a female
convict in our Female Family Founders Database please
download and complete the FFFDB Permission
form.
PDF format
Word format.
Previous
submitters, if you have changed your contact details
(eg email address), please
let us know.
The database
can also store images, documents and other digital
data.
PDF format
Word format.
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If
you submit documents to be stored in the database
for which you are the author (ie, any additional
information that is not included on the Submit
Information on a Convict form), please complete
the Document Copy Permission Form.
PDF format
Word format.
We would
appreciate it if you could provide any images and/or
documents in digital format. However, we can
scan them in if you do not have digital copies.
If you
have previously submitted a convict to the database,
and wish to change any of the information submitted
(eg your email address), please
email us the changed
information.
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