Thieves, needlewomen, Aboriginal warriors and a ten-year-old boy: the free people transported as convicts to Van Diemen’s Land
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Emma was transported to Van Diemen’s Land (lutruwita or Tasmania) for seven years, then spent the rest of her life in Hobart.
Key Points:
- Emma was transported to Van Diemen’s Land (lutruwita or Tasmania) for seven years, then spent the rest of her life in Hobart.
- After her sudden death in February 1863, a local newspaper reported she was “better known as old Emma the fortune teller”.
- If Emma had been able to foretell her own future, she may have chosen to stay in London.
- They challenge popular narratives of Australian history suggesting only convicts from Britain and Ireland were transported to Van Diemen’s Land.
- After being shipped to Van Diemen’s Land, Yanem Goona died in custody at the Impression Bay probation station on October 31 1848.
‘A good riddance’
- Within Van Diemen’s Land itself, 247 free people were sentenced to transportation and sent to Port Arthur and other convict establishments.
- The first entry in the register is for Thomas Carroll, an Englishman who arrived free in Launceston in November 1831.
- Such was the case for Dola, a southeast Asian sailor found guilty in Adelaide of attempted murder on the high seas.
- When he and seven other convicts were sent to Hobart in June 1851 on the brig Union, the Adelaide Observer announced their departure under the headline “A Good Riddance”.