Unwilling emigrants : a study of the convict period in Western Australia / Alexandra Hasluck

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AuthorHasluck, Alexandra, 1908-1993DescriptionWithin twenty-one years of its foundation the colony at Swan River petitioned to become a penal settlement, at a time when the eastern colonies had either ceased to take convicts or were seeking to end transportation to their shores. This work deals with this period in history, told with particular reference to one convict, William Sykes, whose letters from his wife were discovered in 1931. William Sykes is treated as the prototype of the many convicts who came out to the colony of Western Australia. Sentenced to penal servitude as a result of a night's poaching during which a gamekeeper was killed, Sykes spent time in the Establishment at Fremantle, and later on various road parties working in the districts around York and ToodyayImprintMelbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press, 1959Collationxvi, 165 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.LanguageEnglishDewey Class994.1 HASPublication FormatBook

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Barcode30118000059109LocationReference Collection

PeopleWilliam SykesSubjectPenal coloniesConvictsSwan River SettlementCollectionPublications Collection

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