Martha Hayes (1786-1871) came to Australia in 1803 as the daughter of a female convict. She formed a liaison with Lt. John Bowen and had two daughters by him. Later she married Hobart settler Andrew Whitehead and, after his death, police clerk Barnard Williamson. Martha lived in Hobart Town from 1804 onward, and her life is closely interwoven with many colourful characters who lived in Hobart during the first few decades
In 1836 R.C. Gunn sailed in the Sloop Rebecca from Launceston to Port Phillip, Western Port Bay and ...
Knowledge of the convict period in New South Wales has been substantially expanded and enriched thr...
In 1845 in early colonial Melbourne, Port Phillip, a group of Aboriginalmen dived into the treachero...
Harriett came to the Territory with her husband Henry in 1891. She was one of the few white women w...
Many thousands of women were transported to Britain’s colony Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) between 18...
A colonial rather than a New Zealand writer, Lady Barker nevertheless occupies a distinct place in n...
In 1789, ten year old Mary Wade was found guilty of theft and sentenced to death by hanging. This wa...
Robert and Ann Mather and four children arrived in Tasmania in 1822. Ann Mather (1786-1831) was the ...
An analysis of the lives of sixty-one women from the convict class reveals the pivotal role women pl...
English convict and ship’s mutineer Charlotte Badger is heralded as New Zealand’s first “white” woma...
Mary married Alfred Giles on 26 February 1880 in Adelaide and they arrived in Palmerston (Darwin), b...
Photograph of Risdon House, first settlement, and 'old Government House' in 'The Hobart Circuit' new...
Some doubts have been cast in Parliament and elsewhere upon the claim of Fanny (to keep to her pre-...
Historical account of the choice of Sullivan's Cove and the founding of Hobart. Also includes docume...
On January 15 , 1933 , Harold Latham of Auckland Road, Greenmeadows , New Zealand, wrote to his cou...
In 1836 R.C. Gunn sailed in the Sloop Rebecca from Launceston to Port Phillip, Western Port Bay and ...
Knowledge of the convict period in New South Wales has been substantially expanded and enriched thr...
In 1845 in early colonial Melbourne, Port Phillip, a group of Aboriginalmen dived into the treachero...
Harriett came to the Territory with her husband Henry in 1891. She was one of the few white women w...
Many thousands of women were transported to Britain’s colony Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) between 18...
A colonial rather than a New Zealand writer, Lady Barker nevertheless occupies a distinct place in n...
In 1789, ten year old Mary Wade was found guilty of theft and sentenced to death by hanging. This wa...
Robert and Ann Mather and four children arrived in Tasmania in 1822. Ann Mather (1786-1831) was the ...
An analysis of the lives of sixty-one women from the convict class reveals the pivotal role women pl...
English convict and ship’s mutineer Charlotte Badger is heralded as New Zealand’s first “white” woma...
Mary married Alfred Giles on 26 February 1880 in Adelaide and they arrived in Palmerston (Darwin), b...
Photograph of Risdon House, first settlement, and 'old Government House' in 'The Hobart Circuit' new...
Some doubts have been cast in Parliament and elsewhere upon the claim of Fanny (to keep to her pre-...
Historical account of the choice of Sullivan's Cove and the founding of Hobart. Also includes docume...
On January 15 , 1933 , Harold Latham of Auckland Road, Greenmeadows , New Zealand, wrote to his cou...
In 1836 R.C. Gunn sailed in the Sloop Rebecca from Launceston to Port Phillip, Western Port Bay and ...
Knowledge of the convict period in New South Wales has been substantially expanded and enriched thr...
In 1845 in early colonial Melbourne, Port Phillip, a group of Aboriginalmen dived into the treachero...