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.
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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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Impression Bay - convict probation station to civil quarantine station: fever ship Persian, 1857 | Richard Lord | 1992 [USED – SC]
Impression Bay, on the Tasman Peninsula, began as a convict probation station before being repurposed as a civil quarantine station. In 1857, the immigrant ship Persian arrived carrying typhus fever, and this book tells the story of that voyage and the quarantine that followed at Impression Bay — drawing on the resulting Parliamentary Enquiry into the "Fever Immigrant Ship Persian," medical notes on the typhus outbreak, and accounts of the final phase of the immigrants' quarantine and the deaths that occurred there.
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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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James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang - softcover
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by re-offending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intentions. In 1819, convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with this dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts.
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Judicial Murder - The Crown vs David Young
David Young, an ex-convict and a Vandemonian, was looking for work near Daylesford in the Victorian Goldfields in 1864. It was there that Margaret Graham, a 17-year old bride, was brutally murdered in her bed. And it was there that the hunt was on to track down her murderer.
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Just One Tasmanian Policeman
A book that details the working life of a police constable in Tasmania / Van Diemen's Land - James Stevens 1817-1883.
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Letters of An Irish Patriot
The letters of Irish exile William Paul Dowling, who established himself as an artist and photographer after being transported to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania for sedition in 1848.
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Maids, Masters and Magistrates
Maids, Masters and Magistrates tells of 20 women transported to Van Diemen's Land in the convict ship New Grove to become maidservants.
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Maria Island Convicts 1825-1832 by Brian Rieusset - Tasmanian convict history
An account of the first convict settlement on Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, drawing on the original Register of Convicts held by the Oxfordshire County Records Office in Oxford, England — including tabulated information on all 347 convicts held at the settlement (1 female and 346 male), transcribed from the original register.
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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]")
![Impression Bay - convict probation station to civil quarantine station: fever ship Persian, 1857 | Richard Lord | 1992 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/impression-bay-LnVw1O.png "Impression Bay - convict probation station to civil quarantine station: fever ship Persian, 1857 | Richard Lord | 1992 [USED – SC]")
![Joseph Lycett Convict Artist - convicted forger & colonial Australian artist | John McPhee | 2006 | Signed [USED – HCDJ – Large Format]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/joseph-lycett-convict-artist-signed-fRjgTh.png "Joseph Lycett Convict Artist - convicted forger & colonial Australian artist | John McPhee | 2006 | Signed [USED – HCDJ – Large Format]")
