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The Tin Ticket_ The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women - Deborah J. Swiss [157]

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Australia: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1972), 63.

17 Kay Daniels, Convict Women (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998), 124.

18 Colonial Times (Hobart, Australia), “Fatality of the Factory Nursery Repeated!” Tuesday, 29 May 1838, 4.

19 Colonial Times (Hobart, Australia), “Coroners Inquest: Inspection of the Female Factory,” Tuesday, 3 April 1838, 6.

20 Colonial Times, “Fatality of the Factory Nursery Repeated!”

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid.

23 George Mackaness, Some Private Correspondence of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin (Tasmania, 1837-1845), Part I (Sydney: D. S. Ford Printers, 1947), 37-38.

24 Rebecca Kippen, “‘And the Mortality Frightful’: Infant and Child Mortality in the Convict Nurseries of Van Diemen’s Land,” paper for Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 5.

25 Hobart Town Courier, “Fashions for March,” Friday, 23 July 1841, 4.

26 Brown, Poverty Is Not a Crime, 27.

27 Joyce Purtscher, Children in Queen’s Orphanage Hobart Town, 1828-1863 (New Town, Australia: Irene Schaffer, 1993).

28 Joyce Purtscher, “Queen’s Orphanage Hobart Town, 1828-1879,” paper presented to Female Factory Research Group, November 2007, 2, 8.

29 Ibid., 9.

30 Ibid., 12.

31 Ibid., 1.

32 Brown, Poverty Is Not a Crime, 67.

33 Purtscher, “Queen’s Orphanage Hobart Town, 1828-1879,” 7.

34 Ibid., 4.

35 Ibid., 6.

36 John Price, Letter to Josiah Spode, Principal Superintendent of Convicts, March 19, 1841, Archives of Tasmania, Colonial Secretary’s Office 5/1/282/7406.

37 Ibid.

38 Ibid.

39 Ibid.

40 Margaret Rolfe, Australian Quilt Heritage (Rushcutters Bay, Australia: J. B. Fairfax Press, 1998), 19.

41 Mackaness, Some Private Correspondence of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin, 22.

42 Hobart Town Courier, Friday, 30 July 1841, 3.

43 Supplementary Conduct Record, Ellen Scott, Archives of Tasmania, CON 32/1/1, 309.

44 Female Factory Research Group, Convict Lives: Women at Cascades Female Factory (Hobart, Australia: Research Tasmania, 2009), 68.

45 Colonial Times (Hobart, Australia), Tuesday, 10 March 1840, 4.

46 Female Factory Research Group, Convict Lives, 52, 55.

47 Female Factory Research Group, “Infant Deaths at Hobart Nurseries” (name misspelled as William Hoaston), http://www.femalefactory.com.au/FFRG/nurseries.htm.

Chapter 8: The Yellow C

1 Conduct Record, Janet Houston, Archives of Tasmania, CON 40/1/6, 9.

2 Joy Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 109.

3 Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly, 91.

4 Ibid.

5 Rebecca Kippen, “‘And the Mortality Frightful’: Infant and Child Mortality in the Convict Nurseries of Van Diemen’s Land,” paper for Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 4.

6 Kippen, “‘And the Mortality Frightful,’” 4.

7 Hobart Town Courier, “Rules and Regulations,” Saturday, 10 October 1829, 4.

8 Kippen, “‘And the Mortality Frightful,’” 5.

9 “Convict Maid,” Australian Folk Songs, from Butterss & Webby, Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, http://folkstream.com/026.html.

10 Hyland, Jeanette E., Maids, Masters and Magistrates (Blackmans Bay, Australia: Clan Hogarth Publishing, 2007), 18.

11 Colonial Times (Hobart, Australia), Tuesday, 7 April 1846, 3.

12 James Boyce, Van Diemen’s Land (Melbourne, Australia: Black, 2009), 179.

13 Lt. Colonel Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, with a Glimpse of the Goldfields (London: Richard Bentley, 1855), 501.

14 Hobart Town Courier, “Rules and Regulations.”

15 Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly, 60.

16 Description List: Eliza Smith, Archives of Tasmania, CON 19/1/12, 247.

17 Description List: Mary Devereux, Archives of Tasmania, CON 19/1/13, 511.

18 Description List: Frances Hutchinson, Archives of Tasmania, CON 19/1/14, 17.

19 David Kent, “Decorative Bodies: The Significance of Convicts’ Tattoos,” Journal of Australian Studies, No. 53 (1 June 1997), 79.

20 Conduct Record, Eliza Smith, Archives of Tasmania, CON 40/1/10, 14.

21 Damousi, Depraved

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