Part of an occasional series about convicts who were sentenced to both Moreton Bay and Norfolk Island. The convicts who arrived by the Forth in 1830 seem to have been a particularly unlucky lot. There were 113 men on board, three of whom died at sea. Quite a lot of them died within a fewContinue reading “Bad Company.”
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The Young Ones.
Two teenaged criminals who went from Moreton Bay to Norfolk Island. [This is the second in an occasional series that examines the fates of the convicts who had “to Norfolk Island” written against their names in the Moreton Bay Register.] Two of the convicts who went to from Moreton Bay to Norfolk Island arrived inContinue reading “The Young Ones.”
One Hell after another.
Convicts who went from Moreton Bay to Norfolk Island. Edward Doolan’s short life was punctuated by a series of extremely bad decisions. It ended because of one of them. His story is part of a series of posts about the Moreton Bay men who went on to serve time at Norfolk Island. Only a fewContinue reading “One Hell after another.”
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