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From Fields of Stone
Added: Jun 6, 2026
The history of female convict Nappy King in famine Ireland & colonial Tasmania.

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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]
Added: Apr 17, 2026

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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To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 1993 [HCDJ]
Added: Jul 8, 2026

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.


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For Better or Worse
For Better or Worse is a book describing 88 convict lives shaped by transportation to Van Diemen's Land, NSW or Western Australia, with facial images created using computer technology in the early 2000s.

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For the Term of His Natural Life - Popular Penguin
The orange Popular Penguin edition of Marcus Clarke's historical convict novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.

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From Fields of Stone
The history of female convict Nappy King in famine Ireland & colonial Tasmania.

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From the Edges of Empire - Convict Women from Beyond the British Isles
Remarkable stories of convict women transported to Australia who were born or tried outside the British Isles.

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From the Proteus to Prosperity – In the Steps of John Walduck (1809–1886): A Convict Family History | Susan G. Scott (Ed.) | 2018 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

The seven-generation family history of the Walduck family of Tasmania, tracing their origins from convict John Walduck who arrived in Van Diemen's Land aboard the Proteus on 3 August 1831, having sailed from Portsmouth on 14 April. Walduck was born in 1809 and lived until 1886 — long enough to see his descendants established as free settlers across the colony.


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Gaolbird - the true story of William Swallow Convict & Pirate
This children's picture story book tells the outrageous and unbelievable true story of a convict pirate named Swallow from Simon Barnard, the 2015 CBCA winner of A-Z Convicts in Van Diemen's Land.

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Governor Arthur's Convict System
A history of Governor Arthur's convict system in Van Diemen's Land 1824-36.

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Heart of Exile (Patsy Adam-Smith) - 1848 Irish Exiles in Van Diemen's Land - (Used)

Written by popular and highly readable Australian historian Patsy Adam-Smith, this compelling volume tracks the lives, adventures, and fortunes of the seven prominent Irish patriots banished to the Van Diemen's Land penal colony following the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion.


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Hell's Gates
A modern take on the the life and legend of notorious Tasmanian convict, Alexander Pearce.

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James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang - hardcover
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea- a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts.

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