Convicts
Books covering Tasmania's convict era – transportation, penal settlements such as Port Arthur and Sarah Island, convict ships and records, and the individual stories of convicts sent to Van Diemen's Land. A well-used section for family historians researching convict ancestors, as well as general readers interested in this defining chapter of Tasmania's past.
Urchin Convicts - the Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land
In the early 19th century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over 2000 boys were transported from the streets of London to the Point Puer Boys Establishment at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.
Winner of the 2026 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History.
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Voices from the Orphan Schools - signed
Nearly 6,000 children, many the children of convicts, passed through Van Diemen's Land (Tasmanian) Orphan Schools from 1828 to 1879. This book reveals some of their stories.
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Wanted Martin Cash
The story of Martin Cash one of Van Diemen's Land's more colourful convicts and bushrangers.
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White Rag Burning: Irish Convict Arsonists in Van Diemen's Land (Dianne Snowden) - Tasmanian History / Genealogy
Between 1841 and 1853, nearly 250 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land for committing arson, a number out of all proportion to males transported for the same offence. Renowned Tasmanian historian Dianne Snowden explains why so many women resorted to arson as a desperate survival mechanism during the Great Famine, explores their motives, and follows their lived experiences both as convicts in the factory system and subsequently when set free in the colony.
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William Buelow Gould – Convict Artist of Van Diemen's Land | Garry Darby | 1980 [USED – HCDJ – Good]
The real William Buelow Gould — the convict artist who became the protagonist of Richard Flanagan's second novel Gould's Book of Fish. Gould was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1827 at the age of 24. He served time at Macquarie Harbour — the brutal penal station at Sarah Island on the west coast — where he painted fish specimens for the colonial surgeon.
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William Rose Watts - Six Stolen Mugs
This is the biography and family history of convict William Rose Watts, born in Essex in 1811 and transported to Van Diemen's Land for 14-years for stealing six ceramic mugs from his employer.
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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]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-and-the-compass-P6snPf.png "The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]")
![William Buelow Gould – Convict Artist of Van Diemen's Land | Garry Darby | 1980 [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/william-buelow-gould-hcdj-G15ZCT.png "William Buelow Gould – Convict Artist of Van Diemen's Land | Garry Darby | 1980 [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
