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The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ] See details
The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]
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James Meehan was sentenced at 26 for his role in an uprising against British rule in Ireland and arrived in Australia in 1800 as a convict servant to English explorer Charles Grimes. Through talent and persistence he rose to become Acting Surveyor General of the New South Wales colony, working under five governors from 1800 to 1822.

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The Port Arthur Coal Mines 1833 - 1877
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The Second Fleet – Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790 | Michael Flynn | 1993 | Numbered 937/1250 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print] See details
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Michael Flynn's comprehensive history of the Second Fleet — the convoy of six ships that transported convicts to New South Wales in 1790, carrying what became known as one of the most brutal and deadly voyages in the history of convict transportation to Australia. The Second Fleet was operated by private contractors rather than the Royal Navy, and the conditions aboard were catastrophic.

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The Tin Ticket – Australia's Convict Women | Deborah J. Swiss | 2011 [SC] See details
The Tin Ticket – Australia's Convict Women | Deborah J. Swiss | 2011 [SC]

Deborah J. Swiss traces the lives of four women transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 19th century — following them from their origins in Scotland and Ireland through the voyage, the assignment system, and their years in the colony.

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The Travails of Jimmy Porter See details
The Travails of Jimmy Porter
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The Wreck of the Neva – The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard | Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd | 2024 [NEW – HCDJ] See details
The Wreck of the Neva – The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard | Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd | 2024 [NEW – HCDJ]

On 8 January 1835 the Neva sailed from Cork carrying 241 people — mostly Irish women convicts and the wives and children of convicts already transported, travelling to join their families in New South Wales. On 13 May 1835 the ship struck a reef just north of King Island in Bass Strait and sank. Of the 241 aboard, 224 drowned — one of the worst convict ship disasters in Australian history.

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A 107- page illustrated catalogue to accompany an exhibition of the life and work of Thomas Bock, a convict artist in Van Diemen's Land.
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