Crimes Of The First Fleet Convicts

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Angus And Robertson
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1989
Edition: Reprint

Description: 324 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Seven hundred and seventy-eight convicts embarked in the transports of the expedition that set out from England in May 1787 to establish a penal colony in New South Wales. Who were these unwilling Australian settlers, and what had they done to warrant banishment to the other side of the world? John Cobley has used the available source documents-the convict lists kept by Government Phillip and some of the officers and the contractor of the First Fleet, the Old Bailey Sessions Papers, the records of the Clerks of Assize, and the newspapers of the day to compile a comprehensive register of the First Fleet convicts and their crimes and sentences. Each entry contains the convict's name and any variant spelling or alias, his or her age and occupation where available, the name of the transport, the date and place of the trial, a description of the crime and sentence in the words of the original source documents and page references to the documents from which the information was obtained and to any in which the convict's name appears. Description of the source material and a list of aliases are given in the appendixes. The result of this remarkable piece of research is a valuable historical record which is also a fascinating account of the times.

ISBN: 9780207145629