Between 1842 and 1849, 234 juvenile offenders were transported to the Colony of Western Australia on seven convict ships. From 1850 to 1868, over 9,000 convicts were transported to the colony on 43 convict ship voyages. Western Australia was designated a penal colony in 1850.
Voyages transporting Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas," but pardoned on arrival at their destination on the conditions that they be "apprenticed" to local employers, and that they not return to England during the original term of their sentence. Between 1842 and 1849, Western Australia accepted 234 Parkhurst apprentices, all males aged between 10 and 21. As Western Australia was not yet a penal colony, contemporary documents generally avoided referring to the prisoners as "convicts," and the ships that transported them were not officially recognised as convict ships in the colony. English records, however, classified the seven ships that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia as convict ships.
This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.
Ship Arrival Number ofParkhurst apprentices Simon Taylor August 1842 18 Shepherd October 1843 28 Halifax December 1844 18 Cumberland January 1846 16 Orient March 1848 51 Ameer February 1849 50 Mary October 1849 53
Voyages transporting convicts to Western Australia
This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported convicts to Western Australia during its time as a penal colony between 1850 and 1868.
Ship Origin Arrival Number of convicts Scindian Portsmouth 1 June 1850 75 Portland 25 October 1850 100 Mermaid Portsmouth 13 May 1851 208 Pyrenees Torbay 28 June 1851 293 Minden Plymouth 14 October 1851 301 Marion Portland 2 November 1851 279 William Jardine Plymouth 1 August 1852 212 Dudbrook Plymouth 7 February 1853 228 Pyrenees Torbay 30 April 1853 293 Robert Small London 19 August 1853 303 Phoebe Dunbar Kingstown 30 August 1853 285 General Godwin Calcutta 28 March 1854 15 Sea Park London 5 April 1854 304 Ramillies London 7 August 1854 277 Guide Calcutta 9 January 1855 6 Stag London 23 May 1855 224 Adelaide Portland 18 July 1855 259 William Hammond Plymouth 29 March 1856 249 Runnymede Plymouth 7 September 1856 248 Clara London 3 July 1857 262 City of Palaces Singapore 8 August 1857 4 Nile Plymouth 1 January 1858 270 Caducius Bombay 5 February 1858 1 Lord Raglan Plymouth 1 June 1858 268 Calcutta 28 October 1858 11 Edwin Fox Plymouth 20 November 1858 280 Sultana Plymouth 19 August 1859 224 Frances Madras 19 November 1859 1 Palmerston Portland 11 February 1861 293 Lincelles Portland 28 January 1862 304 Norwood Portland 9 June 1862 290 York Portland 31 December 1862 299 Merchantman LondonMerchantman is officially listed as sailing from London via Bermuda, but its convicts were boarded at Bermuda not London. 14 February 1863 191 Clyde Portland 29 May 1863 320 Lord Dalhousie Portland 28 December 1863 270 Clara London 13 April 1864 301 Merchantman Portland 12 September 1864 257 Racehorse Portland 10 August 1865 278 Vimeira Portland 22 December 1865 278 Belgravia Portland 4 July 1866 276 Corona Portland 22 December 1866 305 Norwood Portland 13 July 1867 253 Hougoumont London 9 January 1868 279
See also Convict era of Western Australia Convict ships to New South Wales Convict ships to Norfolk Island
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