When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia ... one of the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it. It was deemed the most difficult ...

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

They were sent with other convicts to Australia and they arrived in Sydney on 27 August 1829. The Greek sailors who were illiterate and didn't know much English worked as farmworkers for landowners.

An example of a 'Holey Dollar' fashioned to make it only for use in the early NSW colony in Australia ... but also in Bolivia and Peru. "A convict, who was an expert engraver, was tasked with ...