Convict maids: the forced migration of women to Australia
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1996
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Acknowledgements viii
Contemporary Measures and Standards x
Introduction: Creative Tensions 1
1 Elizabeth: A Note on Data and Method 17
2 Mercury s Charges: The Crimes of Convict Women 34
3 Piso s Justice: Irish and English Offenders 63
4 Economic Accoutrements: The Skills of Convict Women 98
5 Ireland s Distant Shores: Working Life in Ireland 129
6 England s Castaways: Working Life in England 147
7 Colonial Requirements: Coerced and Free Immigrants 171
8 Misconceptions 198
9 Britain s Loss, Australia s Gain? Concluding Remarks 232
Appendices 244
1 Convict Vessels 244
2 Crime Classification 246
3 Stolen Goods Classification 247
4 Social skill Classification 248
5 Irish Census Classification 249
6 English Census Classification 250
7 Free Immigrant Classification 251
8 Statistical Appendix (with contents list) 251
Notes 274
Bibliography of Works Cited 314
Index 330
v
Illustrations
MAPS
Ireland 128
England 146
FIGURES
1.1 Broadsheet ballad, The London Convict Maid 16
1.2 Convict indent from the Competitor, showing entry for
Elizabeth Coltman 18
1.3 Convict indent from the Elizabeth 22
1.4 Convict indent from the Pyramus 24
1.5 Prison photograph of Margaret Greenwood 30
1.6 Female convicts landed in Sydney, 1788 1840 32
2.1 Proportion of women convicts with prior convictions 42
2.2 Categories of crime for which women convicts were
transported 43
2.3 Crimes and prior conviction rates of women convicts 44
2.4 Categories of property stolen by women convicts 48
2.5 Crimes and duration of sentence of women convicts 56
2.6 The Daisy 61
3.1 Female crime in Ireland and England 68
32 Property stolen by women convicts in Ireland and England 69
3 3 Women s prior convictions by country of trial 71
3.4 Women s sentences by country of trial 72
3.5 Female crime in village and town 73
3 6 Property stolen by women convicts in village and town 74
3.7 Female conviction rates and the London Season 89
3.8 Female crime in London and England 91
3 9 Property stolen by women convicts in London and England 93
4.1 Age distributions of women convicts and Irish and English
women 110
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List of Illustrations vii
4.2 Age distributions of women convicts and female prisoners 111
4.3 Female mortality on convict voyages 113
4.4 Literacy of Irish and English women convicts 115
4.5 Female convict age distributions and clustering 117
4.6 Skill levels of Irish and English women convicts 122
4.7 Female convict skill and literacy 123
4.8 Skill acquisition of female convicts 124
4.9 Female convict conjugal status and motherhood 126
5.1 Regional origins of women convicts 130
5.2 Literacy and numeracy among Irish women 137
5.3 Literacy among Irish born convict women 138
5.4 Skill levels among Irish women 139
5.5 Skill levels among Irish born convict women 139
5.6 Female occupational structures in Ireland 140
5.7 Literacy rates of Irish emigrant convict women 142
5.8 Skill levels of Irish emigrant convict women 143
6.1 Literacy and skill among English born convict women 159
6.2 Literacy among English adult female paupers and convict
women 162
6.3 Female illiteracy in England: workers, paupers, prisoners
and convicts 163
6.4 Skill levels among English women 165
6.5 Female occupational structures in England 165
6.6 Female occupational spread of workers, paupers, prisoners
and convicts 168
7.1 Original poster, c. 1883 170
7.2 Broadsheet, 1833 174
7.3 Original poster, 1834 176
7.4 Original poster, 1836 177
7.5 Original poster, c.1884 178
7.6 Free and forced immigration to New South Wales, 1788 1840 183
7.7 Age distributions of free and forced immigrants 185
7.8 Literacy rates for free immigrant women and convict women 186
7.9 Literacy rates between England and Ireland s female
immigrants and women convicts 187
7.10 Occupational profiles of single immigrant women and
convict women 188
7.11 Advertisements for colonial women workers, 1837 190
7.12 Convict women arrivals, 1832 191
7.13 Female immigrant arrivals, 1836 192
TABLE
4.1 Female convict occupations 119
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