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Name Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Description

This data on the location of convict sites in Australia has been collected by the Mapping Convict Landscapes project, which is part of the 'Landscapes of Production and Punishment' project, run out of University of New England. The aim of the project is to reconsider the structure and operation of the convict system through the lens of its industrial productivity. It looks at the ways in which convict sites and associated administrative structures worked as part of the larger project of invasion and colonization,  how different sites were linked through chains of production, and how goods and people moved about the landscape. 

The project is ongoing and although we have nominated CC by Attribution, we ask that people contact us before using the data. Sources of any quotations and other data derived form other sources and used here in the description and location fields is acknowledged in the full dataset, available via UNE's RUNE data repository. 

Type Site
Content Warning
Contributor Martin Gibbs
Entries 435
Allow ANPS? Yes
Added to System 2023-11-28 14:27:26
Updated in System 2024-03-28 12:02:47
Subject convict archaeology, convict history
Creator Martin Gibbs - Landscapes of Production and Punishment Project
Publisher
Contact mgibbs3@une.edu.au
Citation

Gibbs, Martin and Tuffin, Richard 2023 Mapping Convict Landscapes - Australia Database. University of New England, Armidale.

DOI
Source URL https://convictlandscapes.com.au/australia/
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Date From 1788
Date To 1880
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License CC by Attribution
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Date Created (externally) 2023-11-28

Brisbane - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Brisbane - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Temporary wooden building

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1859

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4873
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island, Point Ross - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Point Ross - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Stockyard and structure shown on map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc490a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

The Oaks - Stockade

Placename
The Oaks - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc493e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Wright's Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Wright's Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 14 acres

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4806
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Copper Hills - Agricultural station

Placename
Copper Hills - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Wellington settlement - hut, stockyard and military guard'. 1826 Muster lists 6 men at Copper Hills stock station

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1826

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc480c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

North Fremantle (North Fremantle bridge) - Branch Establishment

Placename
North Fremantle (North Fremantle bridge) - Branch Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described in 1856 as "two large wooden depots, now used for invalids and a road party".

Extended Data

Start Year
1856
End year
1872

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4819
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Fremantle (Scott's Warehouse) - Hiring Depot

Placename
Fremantle (Scott's Warehouse) - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"Extensive additions and repairs to Mr. Scotts premises, consisting of two large wards 1`50ft x 24 feet, fitted with hammock bags, nine cells for separate confinement, quarters for deputy-superintendant"

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4855
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Black Bob's Creek - Road station

Placename
Black Bob's Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1836

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4891
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount Manning - Road station

Placename
Mount Manning - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp on the Great Northern Road. No. 9 iron gang stationed there in 1830 under oversser ?Henry Martineer.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c8
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Halfway House (Liverpool Rd) - Sawing Station

Placename
Halfway House (Liverpool Rd) - Sawing Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Macquarie as: 'Three weather-boarded Barracks, for one superintendent, one overseer, and thirty convict labourers, employed to cut and saw timber for the use of government, with a kitchen-garden inclosed for their use.

Extended Data

Start Year
1818
End year
1818

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48fb
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Laguna (Finch's) - Stockade

Placename
Laguna (Finch's) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1831
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4931
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Ten Mile Hollow (Snodgrass Valley, Twelve Mile Hollow) - Stockade

Placename
Ten Mile Hollow (Snodgrass Valley, Twelve Mile Hollow) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road. A township (Snodgrass Valley) was planned but never developed.

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc493f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Guildford Ferry - work camp

Placename
Guildford Ferry - work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

[Carter, Jennie. 1986 "Bassendean A social history 1829-1979". Town of Bassendean. P58 [p57] convicts employed to run the ferry from West Guildford. (more details given). Lived in a shack by the ferry landing.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc494e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Wallis Plains (Mailtand) - Road station

Placename
Wallis Plains (Mailtand) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1845

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48eb
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Stock Pen and structure shown on 1840 map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc490b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Stockyard and structure shown on map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc490c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Peel Island - stock station

Placename
Peel Island - stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Buddee 2021 suggests a herd of pigs was kept on Peel island. No other sources found to confirm this.

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1828

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc491d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Stockade Reach - Stockade

Placename
Stockade Reach - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stockade for quarry for Landsdowne Bridge (about 11km upstream on Prospect Creek).

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc493d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Chauncey's Spring (No. 3) - Road station

Placename
Chauncey's Spring (No. 3) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp for the York Road consisting of 'vee" huts for the men and an overseer's cottage. It operated form c1854 to at least 1859

Extended Data

Start Year
1854
End year
1860

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc489a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Cowpasture bridge - Road station

Placename
Cowpasture bridge - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Timber bridge constricted 1826 over the Nepean River (Razorbakc Road), linking LivePRool and Camden. Washed away and replaced in 1852.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1852

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc489d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Castle Hill (Third) Government Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Castle Hill (Third) Government Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

The third government farm established. Included a range of timber and stone buildings. Converted into an invalid asylum 1811-1826.

Extended Data

Start Year
1801
End year
1810

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc480b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Port Macquarie huts - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Port Macquarie huts - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Macquarie in his 1822 report as: 'A range of large well-constructed temporary Bark Huts, for the accommodation of 300 male convicts, with kitchen gardens attached thereto.'

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc487f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Dr Douglas Hill - Road station

Placename
Dr Douglas Hill - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp near Stonequarry (Picton). No firm location details but presumably near to Douglas' grant (see Wells 1848 entry on Picton). Currently pinned to Douglas Park.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a0
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Cooks River (Lansdowne) - Road station

Placename
Cooks River (Lansdowne) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

A road gang hut beside Parramatta Road in Camperdown probably used by the Illawarra Road Clearing Party when working on the beginning of the road at the Cooks River Dam. This hut may have been used on previous occasions by other convict road gangs

Extended Data

Start Year
1841
End year
1841

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc489c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Raffles Bay (Fort Wellington) - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Raffles Bay (Fort Wellington) - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

The convicts were housed in two barracks: one measured 26 by 18 feet and the smaller building, constructed of pePRendicular logs covered with bark, was 18 by 14 feet. These buildings were watched over by a guard house, 20 by 12 feet'. (Mulvaney and Green 1992: 45 )

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4880
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mundaring - Road station

Placename
Mundaring - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Convicts working on the York Road camped near to what is now Mundaring during the 1870s.

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48bc
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bulli - Road station

Placename
Bulli - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road gang bush camp for 10 to 20 men. Associated with the Illawarra Road from Cooks River Dam to Bulli. This camp was most probably located above the escarpment on the line of road overlooking Bulli.

Extended Data

Start Year
1845
End year
1845

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4896
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Convict hospital

Placename
Parramatta - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Macquarie as 'An Hospital, built of brick, two stories high, with an upper and lower verandah all round, with all the necessary out-offices, for the residence and occupation of 100 patients, with ground for a garden and f'or the patients to take air and exercise to; the whole of the premises being inclosed with a high strong stockade'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1818
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc483f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Macquarie Hospital - Convict hospital

Placename
Port Macquarie Hospital - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Hospital for Port Macquarie settlement

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1867

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4840
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Ballengarra (Ballyngarra, Commandant's Farm Ballyngarry, Balingarah, Ballangarie) - Agricultural station

Placename
Ballengarra (Ballyngarra, Commandant's Farm Ballyngarry, Balingarah, Ballangarie) - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

2560 acres. 'The Buildings are erected on the Hill immediately above [the farm], and consist of one House with two Rooms, Kitchen ... two Huts joined, the Residence of the Overseers, a capacious Barn... with a Stockyard adjoining-and several Slab Huts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f3
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Prospect - Agricultural station

Placename
Prospect - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government Farm in hinterland of Port Macquarie, established near junction of the Maria and Wilson Rivers. Sugar cane and tobacco were planted there successfully. A lonf shingles barn was located there for curing tobacco (Rogers 1982: 45, 59). Opened for private selection in 1830.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4808
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Mount Eliza - Branch Establishment

Placename
Mount Eliza - Branch Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot of stone for 130 men, hospital, cook-house, guardroom, &c. and wooden quarters for three officers, office, store, &c".

Extended Data

Start Year
1856
End year
1872

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4818
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Toodyay - Branch Establishment

Placename
Toodyay - Branch Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot for 120 men, quarters for six warders (four now occupied by the police), cook-house, hospital, and out-buildings; superintendents quarters, similar to those at Guildford.' Brick and shingle construction

Extended Data

Start Year
1856
End year
1872

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc481a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

York - Branch Establishment

Placename
York - Branch Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot for 120 men, quarters for six warders (three of these are at present used by the police), cook-house, hospital, commissariat store, quarters, stables, forage-room, harness-room, togeth

Extended Data

Start Year
1856
End year
1874

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc481b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Barber's Creek (Talong) - Bridge party

Placename
Barber's Creek (Talong) - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc481c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Brook Hill - Bridge party

Placename
Brook Hill - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc481d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Cooks River (Lansdowne) - Bridge party

Placename
Cooks River (Lansdowne) - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of two stockades on opposite sides of the Cooks River. Working together on bridge construction. Associated with the Illawarra Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc481e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Causeway - Bridge party

Placename
Causeway - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

"Causeway The two sides have been piled with mahogany, and the road made up about half mile length, and a sawn timber bridge erected of 20feet span.; "After this flood [1862] the Causeway was raised and a new bridge built by convict labour. The convicts were camped in the old magazine, the powder having been removed to a new magazine in Fremantle."

Extended Data

Start Year
1862
End year
1863

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc481f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Mailtand Long Bridge - Bridge party

Placename
Mailtand Long Bridge - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

The first Long Bridge (the bridge into Maitland) was built in 1838, under the supervision of ... Mr. E. Hawkins overseer, and Mr. P. Campbell superintendent.

Extended Data

Start Year
1838
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4820
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Maitland Bridge - Bridge party

Placename
Maitland Bridge - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Bridge party noted as being in or near Maitland in June 1833. This may have been to work on the 1827 bridge constructed over Wallis Creek.

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1933

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4821
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Parramatta - Female factory

Placename
Parramatta - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Macquarie as: A Large Commodious handsome stone Built Barrack and Factory, three Stories high, with Wings of one Story each for the accommodation and residence of 300 Female Convicts... incl. Carding, Weaving and Loom Rooms, workhops, Stores for Wool, Flax, etc... the Whole of the Buildings and said Grounds consisting of about Four acres, being enclosed with a high Stone Wall and Moat or Wet Ditch.

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc484c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Macquarie - Female factory

Placename
Port Macquarie - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

Female factory adjoining the gaol. Considered inadequate.

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1842

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc484d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Maitland - Convict gaol

Placename
Maitland - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Temporary gaol accommodations were used at this site from 1843, but permanent buildings were not commenced until 1846. Sixteen men were executed at the gaol between 1849 and 1897. The gaol became a maximum-security prison in 1972, and during the 1970s was the?scene of some notorious riots and escapes. The gaol closed in 1998 ant today operates as a tourist attraction.

Extended Data

Start Year
1843
End year
1998

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc482c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Field of Mars - Road station

Placename
Field of Mars - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road station associated with Great North Road. Road gang # 23. Limited information on site location

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a9
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Longbottom - Agricultural Station

Placename
Longbottom - Agricultural Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

c700 acre farm est. halfway between Sydney and Parramatta, incorporating a timber station to clear the land. Desc. by Macquarie as: 4 weather boarded Barracks, for one superintendent, two overseers, and forty convict labourers, employed hire to cut and saw timber for the public buildings'. Charcoal for the forges and foundries was also prepared there. Reduced in scale in 1838 and used as a base for the Mounted Police with a stockade for prisoners travelling between Sydney and Pmatta. Used to detain Canadian Exiles 1840-44.

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc484e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Albany - Hiring Depot

Placename
Albany - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot for 60 men, quarters for four warders, cook-house, bake-house, lock-up, and quarters for one policeman; also commissariat store and quarters, and the necessary out-buildings'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1854

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc484f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Busselton (Vasse) - Hiring Depot

Placename
Busselton (Vasse) - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

The position of the depot on the Vasse was most objectionable. It was a collection of bush huts on the outskirts of Busselton, and in the midst of detached buildings and farms. The complaints as to pilfering were numerous." MANNING (1863). It may be that this was near the original Military barracks (which is where the location is pinned to).

Extended Data

Start Year
1853
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4850
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Busselton (Vasse) - Hiring Depot

Placename
Busselton (Vasse) - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

Arrangements were... made to obtain the loan, rent free, of some wooden buildings close to the Police station in town, and to these the party has been moved." MANNING (1863). It is likely that this was the depot to which Fenian John Boyle O'Reilly was attached.

Extended Data

Start Year
1869
End year
1872

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4851
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bunbury - Hiring Depot

Placename
Bunbury - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot for 120 men, cook-house, bake-house, store, ablution room, workhops, offices, as also all necessary out-buildings, all enclosed by a boundary wall and gates; quarters for

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1872

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4852
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Champion Bay (Geraldton) - Hiring Depot

Placename
Champion Bay (Geraldton) - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"...the necessary depot buildings, consisting of depot, cook-house, store, hospital, quarters, and the usual offices."

Extended Data

Start Year
1856
End year
1865

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4853
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Dongara (Dungarra, Dongarra). - Hiring Depot

Placename
Dongara (Dungarra, Dongarra). - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

There is some indication that the Dongara Police station may also have acted as an administrative centre for local Ticket of Leave men (although several sources suggest it was a 'convict hiring depot').

Extended Data

Start Year
1871
End year
1900

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4854
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Guildford - Hiring Depot

Placename
Guildford - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot, 70 x 25, cook-house, store, offices, cells, ablution shed, porters lodge, &c., all enclosed with a boundary wall, constructed entirely of brick; quarters for six warders,

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1878

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4856
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount Eliza - Hiring Depot

Placename
Mount Eliza - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot of stone for 130 men, hospital, cook-house, guardroom, &c. and wooden quarters for three officers, office, store, &c".

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4857
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount Eliza (Steam Mills) - Hiring Depot

Placename
Mount Eliza (Steam Mills) - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

When the convict ship Scindian arrived on 1June 1850 after a quick trip of only eighty-eight days from Portsmouth, the government decided to offer to buy the Steam Mill

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1851

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4858
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Gregory - Hiring Depot

Placename
Port Gregory - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"At this station a depot has been erected, as also warders quarters for two warders, commissariat store and office, convict store, caPRenters and smiths shops, hospital, surgery, and lock-up

Extended Data

Start Year
1853
End year
1857

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4859
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Toodyay - Hiring Depot

Placename
Toodyay - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

Original camp area with temporary buildings and huts before the depot was removed to its new site. During this time the men were mostly engage din roadwork.

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1852

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc485a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Dowlings Range (Judge Dowling Range) - Road station

Placename
Dowlings Range (Judge Dowling Range) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp on the Great North Road Currently. No 8 iron gang from July-Sept 1830. Location not known.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a2
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Carter's Barracks - Juvenile Establishment

Placename
Carter's Barracks - Juvenile Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Macquarie as: [a barrack] for 100 convict boys, with mess-rooms and kitchens, &c, contiguous to the other afore-mentioned barrack at the Brick Fields, but separated by a high party wall, with workhops for the employment of the boys inhabiting the latter barracks; the whole range c f these buildings being enclosed with a strong brick wall of twelve feet high.

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc485f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount Eliza (Steam Mills) - Juvenile Establishment

Placename
Mount Eliza (Steam Mills) - Juvenile Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

John Schoales was given permission to use the mill building as depot for the Parkhurst boys, eith the intention of undertaking trades training.

Extended Data

Start Year
1844
End year
1848

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4860
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bathurst - Lumberyard

Placename
Bathurst - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst town. Late 1820s? Not clearly shown on 1827 plan but well developed on 1833 and 1837 plans of Bathurst townsite.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4861
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Brisbane - Lumberyard

Placename
Brisbane - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

Used as a cente for convict manufacturing in the Brisbane settlement.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4862
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Newcastle - Lumberyard

Placename
Newcastle - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. Described by Macquarie as: 'A complete Lumber-yard,. inclosed with a strong stockade, containing all descriptions of workhops and covered-in saw-pits, for the government mechanics and artificers'

Extended Data

Start Year
1802
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4863
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Lumberyard

Placename
Parramatta - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Macquarie: 'A new brick-built Lumber-yard, with all descriptions; of workhops, and covered-in sawpits, for the different artificers and mechanics in the employ of government; including a tables for the working horses and bullocks, hay-lofts and store-rooms for store and grain and also offices for the superintendent and his clerks; the whole of these premises being contiguous to the convict barracks, and inclosed with a high brick wall.'

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4865
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Macquarie - lumberyard

Placename
Port Macquarie - lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

Sawpits, blacksmith and workhops for Port Macquarie

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4866
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Sydney - Lumberyard

Placename
Sydney - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

Centre for convict industry. Scaled down from previous yard, it provided employment for about 183 convicts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4867
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Sydney - Lumberyard

Placename
Sydney - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

The Government work yard was originally located on Bennelong Point until destroyed by fire.

Extended Data

Start Year
1788
End year
1789

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4868
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Frederickstown - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Frederickstown - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Established 1826 by Maj. Edmund Lockyer as a military settlement against the possibility of a French colonisation, with 20 troops of the 39th Regiment and 23 convicts. Military and convicts withdrawn in March 1831 with the settlement given over to be the Swan River Colony and renamed Albany.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4878
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Hardywood Park - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Hardywood Park - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Also known as the Hardywood Park Stone Barn, located Trunkey Road, Caloola. Local oral history: 'There is some evidence that this building is the former government halfway house for police and convict movements in the colonial era' - NSW SHI suggests used for overnight convict accommodation.. Possi

Extended Data

Start Year
1840
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4879
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Sydney - Hyde Park Barracks - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Sydney - Hyde Park Barracks - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Sydney town barracks for convicts. Macquarie : 'A large Barrack for male convicts in " Hyde Park" built of brick, three stories high,, and. sufficiently roomy to accommodate Boo convicts; with all the necessary out-offices of kitchens, mess-rooms, wash-rooms, washing-yard, &c. ke., including quarters for the deputy, superintendent of convicts, overseers and other attendants; the w1ioye building and washing-yard aping enclosed by a stone wall fourteen feet in height.'

Extended Data

Start Year
1818
End year
1849

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc487a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Liverpool - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Liverpool - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Macquarie as: 'A strong weather-boarded house, contiguous to the gaol, and inclosed with a strong stockade, for the accommodation of the gaol gang and other convict labourers employed in the town by government.'

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1900

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc487b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Newcastle - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Newcastle - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. Described by Macquarie in 1821 as: 'A range of weather-boarded Barracks, for the accommodation of 800 male convicts, with kitchen-garden attached thereto'. Adjacent to the Lumber yard.

Extended Data

Start Year
1818
End year
1827

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc487c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Dog Trap Road - Road station

Placename
Dog Trap Road - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a3
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Sullivans Bay (Sorrento) Huts - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Sullivans Bay (Sorrento) Huts - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Penal settlement of almost 450 people, including marines, free settlers and c. 300 convicts, commanded by Lt David Collins, arrived Oct 1803. Lack of fresh water meant the site was abandandoned in Jan 1804 with the group moving to the Derwent River in Tasmania.

Extended Data

Start Year
1803
End year
1804

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4882
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Sydney Cadman's Cottage - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Sydney Cadman's Cottage - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Built 1816 as a barracks for the Coxswain and boat hands on land adjoining the Government Dockyard

Extended Data

Start Year
1816
End year
1845

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4883
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Windsor - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Windsor - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Macquarie as 'A brick-built Barrack, with suitable out-offices, for the residence and accommodation of 100 male convicts, inclosed with a high brick wall.'

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1823

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4884
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Parramatta - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Two storey Georgian style building. Described by Macqaurie as: 'A brick-built Barrack, of two stories high, for the residence and accommodation of 150 male convicts, with mess-rooms, and all the necessary out-offices, including house far the superintendent, attached thereto; the whole of the premises being inclosed with a high brick wall, and having also a garden immediately adjoining the said wall, for the use of the convicts.'

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1843

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4885
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Greenough (Maley's) Bridge - Public work

Placename
Greenough (Maley's) Bridge - Public work
Type
Other

Details

Description

Constructed by convict labour.

Extended Data

Start Year
1864
End year
1866

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4886
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Swan River channels - Public work

Placename
Swan River channels - Public work
Type
Other

Details

Description

MANNING (1863) "This (Swan River) has been deepened and improved for navigation by the removal of shoals, &c., &c., and a large flat built for the ferry at North Fremantle". Pinned to areas near causeway which saw major channel work.

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1862

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4887
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Pinjarra - Road gang

Placename
Pinjarra - Road gang
Type
Other

Details

Description

Perth Gazette records 'the notorious convict Maggs who ... made his escape from a road gang at Pinjarrah'. No location information.

Extended Data

Start Year
1869
End year
1869

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4888
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Maitland Road Party - Road party

Placename
Maitland Road Party - Road party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road gang 42b under overseer ?Edward Hawkins reported there in May 1833. No location.

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1833

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4889
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bardon's Hill - Road party

Placename
Bardon's Hill - Road party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Perth Gazette mentions a prisoner 'bolting' ' from the road gang at Barndon's Hill. Named after Richard Barndon, who in 1843 ran an inn called the Brewers Arms which was built on the track towards Guildford. The rise on which the inn was built became known as Barndon Hill.

Extended Data

Start Year
1866
End year
1866

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc488a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Hassans Walls - Road Party

Placename
Hassans Walls - Road Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Shown on various surveyors plans as a 'U' shaped configuration, or even a square.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1836

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc488b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Baulkham Hills - Road station

Placename
Baulkham Hills - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Noted as No. 5 iron gang in 1828

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc488c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bargo River - Road station

Placename
Bargo River - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the older alignment of the Great Southern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc488d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Botany Bay Road - Road station

Placename
Botany Bay Road - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Work camp associated with the Botany Bay Road. No infor as to precise location.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc488e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Redcliffe - Road station

Placename
Redcliffe - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with constructon and paving timber on road to Guildforn (now Great Eastern Hwy). Requires further research. May be referred to in Tuckfield (Old York Road or Pelloe articles). [31] In 1851 James Austin was appointed to the position of Civil engineer. Austin, an architect

Extended Data

Start Year
1860
End year
1870

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc488f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bilgoman Well - Road station

Placename
Bilgoman Well - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road station associated with construction and maintenance of the York Road. Described by Lt DuCane in 1856 as having 25 men living in substantial "vee" huts, with slab huts for the overseer and stores.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4890
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bowen's Hollow (Bowenfel) - Road station

Placename
Bowen's Hollow (Bowenfel) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stockade on the Great Western Road. Convicts were housed in portable boxes. Stone was quarried for Mitchell's Road and for the construction of abutments for Bowen's Creek bridge.

Extended Data

Start Year
1836
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4892
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Forteen Mile - Road station

Placename
Forteen Mile - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp along the Parramatta Road (Great Western Road). May indicate distance from CBD (Macquarie's Obelisk). Described in a return of Road Parties as having 31 men.

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48aa
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Freshwater Bay - Road station

Placename
Freshwater Bay - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road station associated with construction of the Perth- Fremantle Road 'on the northern side of the.... track.'. The depot consisted of five wooden buildings. Timber and later stone buildings for convicts and guards and a well,

Extended Data

Start Year
1853
End year
1854

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ab
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Freshwater Bay - Road station

Placename
Freshwater Bay - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road station associated with construction of the road between Perth and Fremantle 'on the northern side of the.... track.'. The depot consisted of five wooden buildings Road station associated with construction of the road between Perth and Fremantle. Timber and later stone buildings for convicts and guards. and a well,

Extended Data

Start Year
1857
End year
1875

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ac
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

George's River - Road station

Placename
George's River - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ad
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Gibralter - Road station

Placename
Gibralter - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ae
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Gibber Gunyah (Gibbergunyah) - Road station

Placename
Gibber Gunyah (Gibbergunyah) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with Great South Road? Iron gang #9.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48af
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Glanmire - Road station

Placename
Glanmire - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Based on oral history - may have been a stockade or road camp. Associated with the Great North Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b0
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Green Hills (Illalaung, Morpeth) - Road station

Placename
Green Hills (Illalaung, Morpeth) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Green Hills (MoPReth after 1834) was the highest point to which large vessels could navigate the Hunter River. In 1838, 97 convicts were stationed at MoPReth, of whom 83 were in irons. Possible stockade accommodation was on or near the St Michael hulk.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b1
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Greenmount - Road station

Placename
Greenmount - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Est. by Lt Du Cane in 1854, this was a major station on the York Road with barracks for 70 men, a cookhouse and buildings for the Asst. Superintendant, overseer, warders and stores, constructed of bush poles and rammed earth.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b2
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Green Swamp - Road station

Placename
Green Swamp - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1835
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b3
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Maroota Forest - Road station

Placename
Maroota Forest - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp associated with the Great Northern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c7
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Harper's Hill - Road station

Placename
Harper's Hill - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

There are several references to an iron gang stockade at HaPRer's Hill, presumably a road camp associated with the creation of what is now the New England Highway.

Extended Data

Start Year
1839
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b4
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Honeysuckle Hill (Range, Flat) - Road station

Placename
Honeysuckle Hill (Range, Flat) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Western Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b5
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Hungry (Hungery) Flat - Road station

Placename
Hungry (Hungery) Flat - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road and No 8 iron gang. Overseer Sam Ashford.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b6
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Jump Up Creek - Road station

Placename
Jump Up Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b7
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Kissing Point Road - Road station

Placename
Kissing Point Road - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b8
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Kurrajong - Road station

Placename
Kurrajong - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

a convict camp and Police station at the Kurrajong end of Comleroy Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1823

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48b9
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mahogany Creek - Road station

Placename
Mahogany Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Early watering hole on the York Road and site of military post 1839-41, and Inn from 1843, and a toll gate in 1845. A convict stationfor the York Road was established nearby in the 1850s.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ba
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

York Road - Road station

Placename
York Road - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

2 miles further on frm Bilgoman Well'. V huts for 50 men with slab huts for the overseers and the storeroom with a cookhouse later added. P72.

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48bd
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Meadow Flat - Road station

Placename
Meadow Flat - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp associated with the Great Western Road. Consisted of un-stocked slab and bark huts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48be
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Menangle - Road station

Placename
Menangle - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48bf
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Midway Creek - Road station

Placename
Midway Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp associated with the Great Southern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c0
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Molles Main - Road station

Placename
Molles Main - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c1
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount Baxter - Road station

Placename
Mount Baxter - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp on the Great Northern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c2
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount Clarence - Road station

Placename
Mount Clarence - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp on the Great Western Road. Survey Depot and base for the assistant surveyor for the road. Stores, office and a number of convicts stationed there as clerks etc.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c3
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount McQuiod - Road station

Placename
Mount McQuiod - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp on the Great Northern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c4
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount Simpson - Road station

Placename
Mount Simpson - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp on the Great Northern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c5
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mount York - Road station

Placename
Mount York - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp on the Great Western Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c6
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Murrays Farm - Road station

Placename
Murrays Farm - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp - may have been associaetd with Pennat Hills Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48c9
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Mullalyup - Road station

Placename
Mullalyup - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with South-west road

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1852

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ca
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Myrtle Creek (Bargo, Bargo West) - Road station

Placename
Myrtle Creek (Bargo, Bargo West) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp near current Tahmoor. Precise location unknown

Extended Data

Start Year
1835
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48cb
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Narone Creek - Road station

Placename
Narone Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp associaetd with the Gret North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48cc
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

North Fremantle - Road station

Placename
North Fremantle - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp for construction of Perth to Fremantle Road, as well as for the construction of the Pensioner village in North Fremantle - located on the north bank of the Swan River. No precise location

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1852

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48cd
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

North Fremantle - Road station

Placename
North Fremantle - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Relocated half a mile north of original depot site in order to be closer to Rocky Point quarry. Described in 1856 as "two large wooden depots, now used for invalids and a road party".

Extended Data

Start Year
1853
End year
1854

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ce
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Nubrygyn - Road station

Placename
Nubrygyn - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Reportedly a 'halting place' for soldiers and convicts travelling between Bathurst and Wellington (The Land 1934, 19 Jan:3).

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1825

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48cf
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

O'Connell Plains - Road station

Placename
O'Connell Plains - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Western Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d0
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Patrick's Plains - Road station

Placename
Patrick's Plains - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Western Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d1
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Peudais - Road station

Placename
Peudais - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d2
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

North Fremantle quarry - Work Party

Placename
North Fremantle quarry - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with Fremantle Depot

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1869

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4977
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Peppermint Grove - Road station

Placename
Peppermint Grove - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Local history indicates that at the 'bottom end' of Leake St there was a stone cottage used by convicts helping build the Perth-Fremantle road, as well as a report that a 'buckle of 51st Regiment, was found (on the Sholl property), suggesting a base camp for convict road builders stood here."

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d3
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Portland Head - Road station

Placename
Portland Head - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Limited historical or location detail.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d4
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Prospect Creek - Road station

Placename
Prospect Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road station associated with the Great Southern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d5
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parsons Hill - Road station

Placename
Parsons Hill - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp associated with the Great North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d6
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Prospect - Road station

Placename
Prospect - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described in a return of Road Parties (Great Western Road/ Parramatta Rd) as having 58 men.

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d7
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Pitt Town - Road station

Placename
Pitt Town - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Windsor Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d8
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Pulpit Hill - Road station

Placename
Pulpit Hill - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Western Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48d9
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Sampson's Pass - Road station

Placename
Sampson's Pass - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48da
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Sawyers Valley - Road station

Placename
Sawyers Valley - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the York Road. ELLIOT (1983) p.99 notes that convicts and warders were housed in mud brick huts, but that the precise location of the camp is unknown.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48db
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Seven Hills - Road station

Placename
Seven Hills - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp associated with the Windsor Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48dc
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Six Mile Brook (Southoban) - Road station

Placename
Six Mile Brook (Southoban) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the York Road. Cowan 1952 p54 notes that ' parties of men from the convict depot had left their camps at the 6 mile gully'. This may be the same site as ruin of the original stone building used to house convicts - now on the Southoban property.

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48dd
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Springwood - Road station

Placename
Springwood - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1836
End year
1836

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48de
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

St Ronan's Well - Road station

Placename
St Ronan's Well - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Used as a camp by road parties associated with the York Road. Pelloe 1929: 10 - reports the ruins of a mud prison and Police station. Millett 1872: 48 describes a brick kiln, possibly used by convicts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1860
End year
1870

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48df
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Stoney Creek - Road station

Placename
Stoney Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e0
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Stonequarry Creek (Picton) - Road station

Placename
Stonequarry Creek (Picton) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e1
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Ten Mile - Road station

Placename
Ten Mile - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp along the Parramatta Road (Great Western Road). May indicate distance by road from CBD (Macquarie's Obelisk). Described in a return of Road Parties as having 27 men .

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e2
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Throsby Creek - Road station

Placename
Throsby Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road. May have been somewhere near modern Moss Vale? Further research required

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1828

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e3
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Thirteen Mile Stone - Road station

Placename
Thirteen Mile Stone - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp along the Parramatta Road. May indicate distance from CBD (Macquarie's Obelisk).

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e4
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Toodyay- Northam Road - Road station

Placename
Toodyay- Northam Road - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Cromb (2010 p.76) suggests the station on theToodyay-Northam road was most likley about 8 miles from Todyay. Housed on average 15 men with a maximum of 23.

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e5
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Toodyay Road - Road station

Placename
Toodyay Road - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Five and a half miles from Toodyay depot on the Toodyay to Guildford. Main building for 40 people of wattle and daub with thatched roof and outbuildings. Well sunk in vicinity. Mau also be the '6 Mile' station site described by Chitty 2004 p.12 as having remains of a stone oven and possible grave. Site not located.

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e6
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Toodyay Road - Road station

Placename
Toodyay Road - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Toodyay Historical Society has notes of an older resident (deceased) identifying a probable Road station on Strahan Rod (possiblyan old alignment of Toodyay Rd). Toodyay HS noted the 'remains of camp ovens'

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1865

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e7
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Toodyay Redhill - Road station

Placename
Toodyay Redhill - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of the stations established for maintenance of the road to Toodyay. Mud-brick construction.

Extended Data

Start Year
1854
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e8
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Toodyay Road (Swan Hill) - Road station

Placename
Toodyay Road (Swan Hill) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of the stations established for maintenance of the road to Toodyay. Not clear if same as 'Redhill'. Further research required.

Extended Data

Start Year
1854
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48e9
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Walkers Creek (Nelligan) - Road station

Placename
Walkers Creek (Nelligan) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Limited information available. May be that this is the same as the Nelligen campsite noted as associated with the Wool Road, built privately using convict labour, between Braidwood and Batemen's Bay from 1841.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1845

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ea
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Woodland Creek - Road station

Placename
Woodland Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Assoc. with the Great North Rd. Road Gang 27 Under Michael Lane, January July 1830. Location cannot be determined, although from later reports moving northwards towards 'Murray's' ( north of Bucketty, towards Wollombi) it may be this was somewhere near Bucketty.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ec
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Western Mountain - Road station

Placename
Western Mountain - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ed
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Windsor Bridge - Road station

Placename
Windsor Bridge - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Should be read as 'Windsor bridge and road party (not as Windsor Bridge party as bridge not constructed until 1874).

Extended Data

Start Year
1822
End year
1823

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ee
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Woronora River, Pass of Sabugal - Road station

Placename
Woronora River, Pass of Sabugal - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road gang bush camp for 10 to 20 men. It is possible that huts of John Lucas 1825 watermill were used/reused for this camp.

Extended Data

Start Year
1843
End year
1843

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ef
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Wombat Brush - Road station

Placename
Wombat Brush - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f0
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Yarrowitch - Road station

Placename
Yarrowitch - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Wikipedia notes: 'Work commenced in 1838 with the use of convicts working from Port Macquarie towards a spot known as "Prisoners' Garden" about 20 km from Yarrowitch. Here it is said that the convicts were chained up each night. In 1842 the track from the Northern Tablelands to Port Macquarie was opened for the first time.

Extended Data

Start Year
1840
End year
1841

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f1
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Stoney Range (Stoney Ridge, ) - Road station

Placename
Stoney Range (Stoney Ridge, ) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with Great Western Road. Located about 12 miles from Bathurst. Backhouse mentions visiting the site in his journal (Rosen 1997: 149).

Extended Data

Start Year
1836
End year
1836

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f2
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Coopers Plains - Road Station

Placename
Coopers Plains - Road Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Roberts 2013, p7 notes that a small convict outpost was built here in 1826 for road gangs working on the development of the main track from Brisbane to Limestone (Ipswich). Suggested location is at the crossing point between Musgrave Road over Stable Swamp Creek, Acacia Ridge.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f3
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Barren Hills (Barren Ridges, Epping, New Government) - Sawing establishment

Placename
Barren Hills (Barren Ridges, Epping, New Government) - Sawing establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f4
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Wellington Valley - Stock Establishment

Placename
Wellington Valley - Stock Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

The furthest inland of the NSW government Agricultural and Stock Establishments

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4901
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Blackrock Government Station - Stock station

Placename
Blackrock Government Station - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst settlement hinterland

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1828

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4902
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Government - Stock station

Placename
Government - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Wellington settlement. Government stock station

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1826

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4903
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Government - Stock Station

Placename
Government - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst settlement hinterland

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1826

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4904
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Logan - Stock station

Placename
Logan - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Budde 2021 suggests 'A sheep and cattle station was most likely established here [Logan] as it is mentioned that after the end of the convict settlement the land was taken over by early settlers'. Tome Petrie's reminiscences also indicate timber getting along the river. 1842 map does not indicate a station but does show a road to the Logan River.

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4905
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Molong - Stock station

Placename
Molong - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Wellington settlement

Extended Data

Start Year
1822
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4906
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Mulgoa - Stock Station

Placename
Mulgoa - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government Stock Station.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4907
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Shears Gully - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Shears Gully - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 54 acres. Stockyard and structure shown on map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc490d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Steele's Point - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Steele's Point - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Stockyard and structure shown on map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc490e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Stock Keepers Hut - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Stock Keepers Hut - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Small structure shown on 1848 map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc490f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Sucker Ground - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Sucker Ground - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Stockyard and structure shown on map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4910
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Old White Rock - Stock station

Placename
Old White Rock - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst settlement hinterland

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4911
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Swallow Creek - Stock Station

Placename
Swallow Creek - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst settlement hinterland

Extended Data

Start Year
1822
End year
1824

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4912
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Theresa Park - Stock station

Placename
Theresa Park - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst settlement hinterland

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4913
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

White Rock - Stock station

Placename
White Rock - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst settlement hinterland

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4914
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Cowpers (Coopers) Plains - Stock Station

Placename
Cowpers (Coopers) Plains - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Budde 2021: 'A convict settlement was established at Cowpers Plains in 1828, at the crossing of the convict road from Brisbane to Ipswich and the squatters highway from the Darling Downs to Cleveland (where they planned to have a port). At the outstation there was one hut for the military and one for the convicts' .

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4915
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Cawdor - Stock Station

Placename
Cawdor - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

The main farm and Government Cottage for the several stock stations established to take control of stock in the Cowpastures area was established at Cawdor. Macquarie 1821 describes brick and wood buildings, fenced cattle yards and . A Tanning-house and Tan-yard for tanning the hides of the wild bulls, for the use of government.

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1826

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4916
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Frederick's Valley (Blackman's Swamp; Dairy Creek) - Stock Station

Placename
Frederick's Valley (Blackman's Swamp; Dairy Creek) - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Govt. stock and convict station with 2 soldiers and a barracks, between Bathurst and Wellington, near Chinaman's Bend. Site named after John Blackman. Reportedly just north of cemetery.

Extended Data

Start Year
1822
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4917
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

George's Plains - Stock station

Placename
George's Plains - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst settlement hinterland

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4918
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Redbanks Plains - Stock Station

Placename
Redbanks Plains - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Sheep and cattle station attached to the Moreton Bay settlement. The outstation waas established on Goodna Creek and consisted of three huts for the military, overseer and the convicts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4919
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Rooty Hill - Stock Station

Placename
Rooty Hill - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government stock station. Originally included a 2 storey brick house for the Superintendant and principal overseer, as well as log huts as barracks for the 20 stock keepers.

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1828

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc491a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Stone Quarry (Picton) - Stock Station

Placename
Stone Quarry (Picton) - Stock Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc491b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Thornleigh - Stock station

Placename
Thornleigh - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stock station (Government Paddock comprising 40 acres/ 16 hectares) used to graze the hauling bullocks associated with the Penant Hills Sawing establishment. 1n 1820, 105 bullocks were used at the Establishment.

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc491c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Emu Plains (No. 1) - Stockade

Placename
Emu Plains (No. 1) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stockade remained in use to house iron gangs working on the roads. Closure date uncertain but absconding reports continue until 1835. A report of early 1839 refers to the stockade as 'ruined'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc491e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Rose Hill redoubt - Stockade

Placename
Rose Hill redoubt - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Original shelter and stockade for convicts, soldiersand stores sent to establish the Rose Hill settlement (Parramatta). By 1790 Collins (1975:117) notes it was already in disrepair.

Extended Data

Start Year
1788
End year
1790

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc491f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Berrima - Stockade

Placename
Berrima - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Iron gang housed in huts

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4920
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Blackheath - Stockade

Placename
Blackheath - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Housed an iron gang working on the Great Western Road. Col. Godfrey Mundy in 1846: 'The barracks and convict boxes form a little hamlet of some two dozen buildings of white washed slabs with tall stone chimney'. Last stockade in NSW. Later used for Mounted Police.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1849

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4921
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Bradley's Head - Stockade

Placename
Bradley's Head - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Presumably a work camp associated with the construction of the Bradleys Head battery, was built after four American warships arrived in Sydney Harbour undetected in 1839. Several reports of escapes, with one (Sydney Free Press 24 Feb 1842 Page 3) noting 'their place of confinement, or, as it is usually termed, the box'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1840
End year
1842

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4922
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Bull's Camp (20 Mile, 17 Mile Hollow, 17 Mile Pinch, Linden) - Stockade

Placename
Bull's Camp (20 Mile, 17 Mile Hollow, 17 Mile Pinch, Linden) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Western Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1848

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4923
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Campbelltown (Appin Rv) - Stockade

Placename
Campbelltown (Appin Rv) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4924
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Cockatoo Island - Stockade

Placename
Cockatoo Island - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Originally established as a prison in 1839 to house men transferred from Norfolk Island and Goat Island. The island was used for secondary punishment, with the initial stockade of tents and transportable boxes being replaced with barracks, cells, military and administrative buildings from locally quarried stone. Various industrial activities including excavating a dry dock.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1869

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4925
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Dennis Dog Kennel - Stockade

Placename
Dennis Dog Kennel - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stockade for contruction of the Great North Road situated at the spring in Bucketty. Originally intended to develop into a settlement.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4926
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Devines Hill - Stockade

Placename
Devines Hill - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Great North Road - New line of ascent up Devines Hill commenced 182. Associated with iron gangs 3,8 and 9. Stockade and military guard located near summit of hill.

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4927
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

East Maitland (Wallis Plains) - stockade

Placename
East Maitland (Wallis Plains) - stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Lady Franklin in June 1839 as 'a square area surmounted by huts, one of which is an open shed with tables & benches for dining, the other side 4 wooden boxes holding 24 men each, sleeping on ground & on upper boards - a passage across the box between the 2 opposite doors each of which has barred open space over it. Held 90 chain gang men'.Not clear if West or East Maitland stockade.

Extended Data

Start Year
1839
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4928
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Figtree (Ryan's Paddock) - Stockade

Placename
Figtree (Ryan's Paddock) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Southern Road. Stockade was moved from Geard's Hill, possibly portable boxes.

Extended Data

Start Year
1835
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4929
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Glenroy - Stockade

Placename
Glenroy - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government Provision Depot and later converted into a Military Station. Associated with the Great Western Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc492a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Goat Island - Stockade

Placename
Goat Island - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc492b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Grose Farm - Stockade

Placename
Grose Farm - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

During the 1830s the stockade at the former farm site re-used for road gangs. Road gang 23 was located there in May 1832.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc492c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Hassan's Wall No. 3 - Stockade

Placename
Hassan's Wall No. 3 - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Originally const. 1828 adjacent to Lockyer's road, but new huts built for the iron gangs employed in construction of Mitchell's new line of road (Great Western Road) in 1835-40. Housed up to 138 men (in 1838). Four or more stone chimney bases are still visible on the site.

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc492d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Charcoal Creek (Unanderra) - Stockade

Placename
Charcoal Creek (Unanderra) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

May be as early as 1836. Prisoners were erecting a bridge across the Creek and road making.

Extended Data

Start Year
1840
End year
1841

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc492e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Illawarra (The Crossroads, Geard's Hill) - Stockade

Placename
Illawarra (The Crossroads, Geard's Hill) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

They were assembled in a large open mess shed, which forms one end of an oblong area having the officer's quarters at the opposite end, six Boxes on one side and the Military barracks on the other. In the rear of the Boxes are two cells for solitary confinement and a few other small slab huts, and there are small huts in the rear of the Military barracks for constables, messengers, &c. The whole place is remarkable for cleanliness and order very creditable to the officer in charge.'

Extended Data

Start Year
1834
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc492f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Iron Cove shell camp - Stockade

Placename
Iron Cove shell camp - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Bigge 1822, p26 describes it as 'an establishment of 27 convicts for gathering shells for lime. The convicts at this establishment are lodged in wood huts on the bank of the river, under the superintendence of an overseer.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4930
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Little Forest - Stockade

Placename
Little Forest - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1834
End year
1836

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4932
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Longbottom - Stockade

Placename
Longbottom - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

After 1838 was a base for the Mounted Police and included a log stockade for prisoners travelling between Sydney and Pmatta. Used to detain Canadian Exiles 1840-44.

Extended Data

Start Year
1838
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4933
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Lower Portland Head - Stockade

Placename
Lower Portland Head - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Iron Gang 7 stationed there in Nov-Dec 1832. August 1832 advertisement auctioning off materials from the stockade.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4934
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Mount Victoria (Mitchell's No. 1) - Stockade

Placename
Mount Victoria (Mitchell's No. 1) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp on the Great Western Road. Housed convicts constructing the Mount Victoria Pass. Iron gang No. 8 under overseer Sam Ashford in May 1832.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1836

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4935
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Newcastle (No. 3 Stockade) - Stockade

Placename
Newcastle (No. 3 Stockade) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. Opened as a base for construction of new breakwater

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1846

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4936
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Parramatta - Stockade

Placename
Parramatta - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Iron Gang Stockade. Described in Sydney Gazette in 1839 as having convict tradesmen as well as a large (and possibly illegal) piggery attached. Precise location uncertain. A report in the Australia of 9 Jan 1844 notes the stockade, 'late at the New Gaol Parramatta' has been removed to 20 Mile hollow.

Extended Data

Start Year
1834
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4937
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Penrith - Stockade

Placename
Penrith - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Shown on 1845 plan of the former Government farm as 'old stockade' on a track heading north possibly to bridge (no longer extant) over Nepean river? Need to check location.

Extended Data

Start Year
1845
End year
1845

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4938
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Phoenix Hulk - Stockade

Placename
Phoenix Hulk - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Hulk on the Phoenix was used as a 'temporary' stockade. Moored in Hulk Bay.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4939
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Pennant Hill Junction - Stockade

Placename
Pennant Hill Junction - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc493a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Pinchgut Island (Rock Island) - Stockade

Placename
Pinchgut Island (Rock Island) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Convicts were stationed there for the construction of a new defensive battery, The original hill was quarried down with the gun platform housing two heavy guns protected by a parapet of living rock. In 1856 was redeveloped with construction of a Martello tower.

Extended Data

Start Year
1840
End year
1843

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc493b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Razorback Range - Stockade

Placename
Razorback Range - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of the stockades on the Great South Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc493c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Towrang - Stockade

Placename
Towrang - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of several stockades on the Great South Road, and the major convict camp for the southern district.

Extended Data

Start Year
1838
End year
1843

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4940
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Wenthworth Falls - Stockade

Placename
Wenthworth Falls - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Western Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4941
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

West Maitland - Stockade

Placename
West Maitland - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Following Governor Franklin's visit in early 1839 work on the new W. Maitland stockade commenced in June and continued into 1840. A report of Jan 1840 noted the iron gang and road party men were assisting and that the new stockade was 'at the extremity of West Maitland' with the men marching nearly 3 miles from E. Maitland to work. This would place the site somewhere near Maitland Hospital.

Extended Data

Start Year
1839
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4942
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Wiseman's Ferry - Stockade

Placename
Wiseman's Ferry - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4943
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Wollongong (Signal Hill, Five Islands, South Head) - Stockade

Placename
Wollongong (Signal Hill, Five Islands, South Head) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

300 convicts, mostly employed on harbour construction work. Boxes used for accommodation.

Extended Data

Start Year
1837
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4944
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Wingello - Stockade

Placename
Wingello - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1834
End year
1843

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4945
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Wollombi - Stockade

Placename
Wollombi - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1836

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4946
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Toerag (Balignup) - Work Camp

Placename
Toerag (Balignup) - Work Camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

FARROW (2013), p. 4: suggests that a convict work camp (from the Bunbury Depot) was located at a place "called 'Toerag', near Donnybrook, under the watchful eye of Sergeant Henry Trigwell". No location with this name, which is based on prison slang.

Extended Data

Start Year
1860
End year
1861

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4956
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Point Resolution Quarry - Work camp

Placename
Point Resolution Quarry - Work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

Hope (Early Days): [29] "The portion fronting Melville Water (the corner Lot 25 of about 8 acres) was worked as a stone quarry in the 1850s by prison labour'. Included two limestone buildings to house convicts and wardens.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1860

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4957
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Argyle Bridge Party - Work gang

Placename
Argyle Bridge Party - Work gang
Type
Other

Details

Description

Argyle Bridge Party is a common reference in absconder records, but presumably refers to a gang -probably working at different locations on the Great South Road (Hume Highway) within the County of Argyle - rather than a specific location. Later these gangs were probably based out of Towrang Stockade and it is conceivable that there may have been an existing road or bridge gang site in the vicinity. This point, positioned near the stockade - is close to the centre of the County and provides some spatial reference.

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1880

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4958
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Aston Hill Limekilns - Work party

Placename
Aston Hill Limekilns - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Quarry for Port Macquarie

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4959
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Bathurst Brick Kiln - Work party

Placename
Bathurst Brick Kiln - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

On western edge of Bathurst town. By 1822 brick buildings had been constructed in the town.

Extended Data

Start Year
1822
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc495a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Bathurst Lime Kiln - Work party

Placename
Bathurst Lime Kiln - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Kiln started following 1821 discovery of lime by William Lawson. Described as a 'primitive conical limekiln' (Higginbotham 2012: 6 - vol 2)

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc495b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Ballengarra Wharf - Work party

Placename
Ballengarra Wharf - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Wharf situated at navigable head of Maria River for removal of timber and agricultural produce including sugar from the Rollands Plains and Bellengarra agricultural establishments. Dates require checking.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1826

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc495d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Ballengarra Wharf - Work party

Placename
Ballengarra Wharf - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Second wharf constructed for removal of timber and agricultural produce including sugar from the Rollands Plains and Ballengarra agricultural establishments. Dates require checking.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc495e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Brisbane - Work Party

Placename
Brisbane - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Sawpits for processing the cedar and hoop pine logs floated down the Brisbane river from the upstream timeber camps.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc495f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Brisbane brick kiln - Work Party

Placename
Brisbane brick kiln - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4960
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Brisbane Brick Kilns - Work Party

Placename
Brisbane Brick Kilns - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Original brick kiln for Brisbane

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1826

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4961
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Busby's Bore water supply - Work Party

Placename
Busby's Bore water supply - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Tunnel excavated 1827-37 to carry water from Lachlan's Swamp (Centennial Park) to Hyde Park in central Sydney. Remained Sydney main water supply until 1852

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4962
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Darlinghurst (Barcom Glen) Quarry - Work party

Placename
Darlinghurst (Barcom Glen) Quarry - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Quarry for stone for Darlinghurst Jail. Mre than 30,000 tons of stone removed.

Extended Data

Start Year
1822
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4964
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Fremantle lime kiln - Work party

Placename
Fremantle lime kiln - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A watchhouse has been built at the limekiln'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1853
End year
1860

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4965
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

South Bay Jetty and sea wall - Work party

Placename
South Bay Jetty and sea wall - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

"Jetties, south bay 455 x 22, north bay 205 x 11, with wide head, both furnished with hoisting cranes and guarded by post and rail, both constructed of mahogany, with piles driven

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1852

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4966
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Kangaroo Point wheat hut - Work Party

Placename
Kangaroo Point wheat hut - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

In May 1825 the river flats at the northern end of Kangaroo Point were cleared and planted with wheat and maize to supply food for the new settlement. 1829 plan notes a 'guard hut or wheat hut'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4967
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

North Fremantle Ferry - Work Party

Placename
North Fremantle Ferry - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with Fremantle Depot

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1869

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4968
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Perth Causeway - Work party

Placename
Perth Causeway - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

"Causeway The two sides have been piled with mahogany, and the road made up about half mile length, and a sawn timber bridge erected of 20feet span.

Extended Data

Start Year
1863
End year
1867

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4969
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Perth Lakes drainage and filling - Work party

Placename
Perth Lakes drainage and filling - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

"Drainage A vast amount of labour has been consumed in draining several large lakes at the back of the town, to render the land available for garden puPRoses."

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1865

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc496a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Perth water - River Channel - Work party

Placename
Perth water - River Channel - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

"The channel from the jetty has been deepened for a distance of half a mile towards Mount Eliza."

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc496b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Perth, Government House - Work party

Placename
Perth, Government House - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

"-A new Government-house, 100 x 120, two stories high, with out-buildings, grounds terraced, &c., entailing the removal of about 30,000 yards of soil. The building is covered in, an

Extended Data

Start Year
1859
End year
1863

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc496c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Pennant Hills (Government, One Tree, Ermington, Melrose Park) wharf - Work Party

Placename
Pennant Hills (Government, One Tree, Ermington, Melrose Park) wharf - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Wharf used for loading timber and basalt gravel (bluemetal roadbase) for transport to Sydney.

Extended Data

Start Year
1817
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc496d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Port Macquarie brickfields - Work party

Placename
Port Macquarie brickfields - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Brickfield and kiln for Port Macquarie.

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc496e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Redcliffe brick kiln - work party

Placename
Redcliffe brick kiln - work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Brick kiln in the Redcliffe settlement

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1825

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc496f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Raine Island tower - work party

Placename
Raine Island tower - work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

A navigation beacon constructed by convicts in 1844 to help mark the passage through the Great Barrier Reef.

Extended Data

Start Year
1844
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4970
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Stockade Reach Quarry - Work party

Placename
Stockade Reach Quarry - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Quarry for Landsdowne Bridge (about 11km upstream on Prospect Creek.

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4971
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Sydney dockyard - Work party

Placename
Sydney dockyard - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Located on East side of Sydney Cove. Several vessels were constructed here by convict shipwreichts including the Rose Hill Packet (Oct 1789) for transporting supplies to and from Parramatta, as well as the 'Francis' (17930 for transport between Sydney and Norfolk Island.

Extended Data

Start Year
1788
End year
1796

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4972
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Sydney lime camp - work party

Placename
Sydney lime camp - work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Lime kilns on Bennelong Point shown on Roe's 1822 plan

Extended Data

Start Year
1788
End year
1822

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4973
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Toodyay Road - Work Party

Placename
Toodyay Road - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Chitty 2004 13-14 reports piles of 'pudding stone' near Jingaling Brook Rd which he ascribes to convict road parties stickpiling materials for use on boggy sections of Toodyay Rd. No detail of precise location.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1865

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4974
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Newcastle - Work party

Placename
Newcastle - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement

Extended Data

Start Year
1804
End year
1822

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4975
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Brisbane River Ash Burning camp - Work station

Placename
Brisbane River Ash Burning camp - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Buddee (2021) notes 'At the mouth of the Brisbane River there was a small site where prisoners were burning mangrove trees for ash used for soap making'

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4978
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Amity Point Pilot Station - Work station

Placename
Amity Point Pilot Station - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1825 a pilot station was established to guide ships travellingto the Moreton Bay penal settlement via the South Passage. This was Stradbroke Islands first non-indigenous settlement and closed in the 1840s.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4979
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Canning River Fence - Work Station

Placename
Canning River Fence - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Fence constructed in the Canning River to keep the channel open for the Mason and Bird timber barges.

Extended Data

Start Year
1866
End year
1867

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc497a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Camden Haven lime kilns - Work station

Placename
Camden Haven lime kilns - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Lime burners were known to have been sent to Camden Haven area from Port Macquarie. There are severla records suggesting they were active in the area from the mid-1820s.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc497b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Cooks River Dam - Work station

Placename
Cooks River Dam - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Constructed as a fresh water supply for sydney. Sandstone for its construction was quarried from both sides of the Cooks River. Demolished 1890s.

Extended Data

Start Year
1839
End year
1896

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc497c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

George's Head Battery - Work Station

Placename
George's Head Battery - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of the earliest redoubts / gun batteries of the Sydney Harbour defense system. Carved into the rock of Obelisk Point, Middle Head (then called George's Head) by a gang of 44 men. Presumably a work camp was located nearby. It remained a significant defense installation until 1839.

Extended Data

Start Year
1801
End year
1803

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc497d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Green Hills (Illalaung, Morpeth) - Work station

Placename
Green Hills (Illalaung, Morpeth) - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Formerly a 170 ton ship-rigged vessel used for cattle transport. Moored as a hulk next to Greehills/MoPReth and used as a supply ship for convicts cedar cutting and working on road parties.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1841

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc497e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

King's Town - Work Station

Placename
King's Town - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1801 Gov. King decided to establish a permanent settlement at Newcastle to support the coal mining, but closed it only 6 months later. The small coal mining party left behind continued until 1802/1803.

Extended Data

Start Year
1801
End year
1803

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc497f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Limeburning Cove (Fullerton Bay) - Work Station

Placename
Limeburning Cove (Fullerton Bay) - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Lime burning operation. Part of Newcastle Settlement. A 1939 newspaper article reports the ruins of the kilns as closde to the golf course.

Extended Data

Start Year
1808
End year
1820

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4980
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Limeburners' Creek - Work Station

Placename
Limeburners' Creek - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Early location of lime extraction of natural shell beds and Aboriginal middens and burning for the Port Macquarie Settlement. Many of the early settlement officials also developed properties in the area.

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4981
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Limestone Hills (Bremer River) Station - Work Station

Placename
Limestone Hills (Bremer River) Station - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Moreton Bay settlement. An overseer and 5 convicts were stationed at the kilns (Cunningham to Darling 1827). Tom Petrie's reminiscences note that the station consisted of 'Mr Thorn's house and the yards for the cattle and sheep, also the limekiln and the stockade for the prisoners'. Up to 400 bags of lime per week, transported by boat to Brisbane.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4982
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Mum's Point - Work Station

Placename
Mum's Point - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

" Charlie went on to say that the convict camp was at Mum's Point near what is now Watersby Crescent, and that they constructed several mud huts near the foreshore. Camp reported in area of Mum's Point (although note - Mum's Point was created in the 1950s as a result of dredging). ;

Extended Data

Start Year
1866
End year
1866

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4983
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

AA Company Coal Mine Newcastle - Work station

Placename
AA Company Coal Mine Newcastle - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1828 the Australian Agricultural Company was given a monopoly on coal mining in NSW and granted 2000 acres near Newcastle, taking over the government workings. The first sale and shipment of coal was made by the Company in 1831Although not a government site it was a major employer of convicts. Pinned ot location of the main pit on 1830 plan (Armstrong).

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1900

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4984
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Arthur's Value Barn and Granary - Work Station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Arthur's Value Barn and Granary - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government barn and granary for agricultural stores

Extended Data

Start Year
1789
End year
1814

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4985
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Phillipsburg Storehouse and Barracks - Work Station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Phillipsburg Storehouse and Barracks - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Storehouse likely for government stores.

Extended Data

Start Year
1789
End year
1814

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4986
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Queenborough Barn and Granary - Work Station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Queenborough Barn and Granary - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government barn and granary for agricultural stores

Extended Data

Start Year
1789
End year
1814

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4987
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Pipers Creek (Bonnie Corner; Smith's Creek) Lime station - work station

Placename
Pipers Creek (Bonnie Corner; Smith's Creek) Lime station - work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of several sources of lime for the port Macquarie settlement and continued in use beyond the convict period. The kilns are an unusual 'D' type. There is also archaeological evidence of the associated camp and a wharf was originally constructed on the river. Additional kilns are located further up the Maria River but convict association is unclear.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4988
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Macleay River timber cutters - Work station

Placename
Macleay River timber cutters - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

In October 1827, faced with increased demands for timber for publlic building construction in Sydney, Port Macqaurie Commandant Major Innes sent cedar cutters to the Macleay (New) River. Location of the camp(s) is unknown. However, cost and difficulty of transport meant that the operation was n ot seen as successful. (MacLachlan 1988: 149). No known location of camp although the undated early plan shows an encampment on the south side opposite what is now Kempsey.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4989
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Rosewood (Cedar Cutters Plains, Treachery Plains) - Work Station

Placename
Rosewood (Cedar Cutters Plains, Treachery Plains) - Work Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Timber-cutting area associated with the Port Macquaire settlement

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc498a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Barber's Creek (Talong) - Bridge party

Placename
Barber's Creek (Talong) - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.034091
Longitude
167.923122

Description

Associated with the Great South Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4997
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Bardon's Hill - Road party

Placename
Bardon's Hill - Road party
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.032958
Longitude
167.973192

Description

Perth Gazette mentions a prisoner 'bolting' ' from the road gang at Barndon's Hill. Named after Richard Barndon, who in 1843 ran an inn called the Brewers Arms which was built on the track towards Guildford. The rise on which the inn was built became known as Barndon Hill.

Extended Data

Start Year
1866
End year
1866

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4998
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Bargo River - Road station

Placename
Bargo River - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.038191
Longitude
167.950452

Description

Associated with the older alignment of the Great Southern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4999
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Barren Hills (Barren Ridges, Epping, New Government) - Sawing establishment

Placename
Barren Hills (Barren Ridges, Epping, New Government) - Sawing establishment
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.037515
Longitude
167.926927

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc499a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Barren Hills (Barren Ridges, Epping, New Government) - Sawing Station

Placename
Barren Hills (Barren Ridges, Epping, New Government) - Sawing Station
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.03468
Longitude
167.934434

Description

Supplied sawn timber and shingles to Public work. In 1820 it was described as having workheds, as well as wooden barracks and huits and a chapel for the c.75 men, as well as a small prison for 'refractory' convicts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc499b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Bathurst - Agricultural station

Placename
Bathurst - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.05739
Longitude
167.95694

Description

Founded as a government agricultural station until replaced by Wellington Valley in 1823

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1823

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc499c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Bathurst - Female factory

Placename
Bathurst - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.046818
Longitude
167.942522

Description

May have been established in the existing 1815 Commissariat buildings, although Hendriksen and Liston (et al. 2008) suggest it was the old Military barracks (p.48). Operated until new gaol opened.

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc499d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Bathurst - Lumberyard

Placename
Bathurst - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.019812
Longitude
167.927042

Description

Part of Bathurst town. Late 1820s? Not clearly shown on 1827 plan but well developed on 1833 and 1837 plans of Bathurst townsite.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc499e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Bathurst - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Bathurst - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.054782
Longitude
167.960133

Description

Part of Bathurst town. Described by Macquarie (1822) as 'Temporary log huts as barrack for 50 male convicts' close to the river. Precise location unknown

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1822

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc499f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Bathurst - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Bathurst - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.03006
Longitude
167.945766

Description

22 cottages in 2 rows, 'built of good bricks and thatched with a chimney to each' with shutters for windows (1829 report). By early 1830s at least half are gone and none left by 1841.

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1841

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc49a0
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Brownlow Government Cattle Station - Agricultural station

Placename
Brownlow Government Cattle Station - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Formed by Macquarie in 1815 to take control of the cattle found in the Cowpastures area. Brownlow Hill was in charge of Mr. George Johnson, with cattle later removed when Bathurst was established (JBM 1883 p.6).

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1815

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4809
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Duck River - Road station

Placename
Duck River - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Single span bridge of brick burned on site - constructed by master mason David Lennox.

Extended Data

Start Year
1838
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a4
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Dural - Road station

Placename
Dural - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a5
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island, Kingston (Sydney, King's Town) Settlement - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Kingston (Sydney, King's Town) Settlement - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of several villages connected to the Norfolk Island settlement ('first settlement') adjacent to the landing in Sydney Bay. Established as an agricultural settlement to support the colonies of NSW. Administrative centre for Norfolk Island. Included military, convict barracks (huts), gaol and administrators.

Extended Data

Start Year
1788
End year
1814

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47fe
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island Longridge - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island Longridge - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Main agricultural settlement for the island producing crops and with large piggery attached. Several barracks with capacity for 600 men, messroom, bakehouse, cottages for administrators, as well as barns and agricultrual stores.

Extended Data

Start Year
1839
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47ff
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island, Marjoram Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Marjoram Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4800
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Toodyay - Hiring Depot

Placename
Toodyay - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot for 120 men, quarters for six warders (four now occupied by the police), cook-house, hospital, and out-buildings; superintendents quarters, similar to those at Guildford.' Brick and shingle construction

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc485b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

York - Hiring Depot

Placename
York - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot for 120 men, quarters for six warders (three of these are at present used by the police), cook-house, hospital, commissariat store, quarters, stables, forage-room, harness-room, togeth

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc485c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island, Military Officers Gardens - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Military Officers Gardens - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4801
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island, New Farm Centre - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, New Farm Centre - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 190 acres

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4802
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Grose Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Grose Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government farm used to produce fodder for the horses and oxen employed on Public work in Sydney, but also used for agricultural training for convict boys. Bigge [1822: 24] described brick sleeping rooms for 160 men and boys, airing sheds of brick, as well as gardens for the use of the convicts. After 1823 was used for the instruction of oPRhans.

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1823

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc480d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Limestone 'Plough Station' - Agricultural station

Placename
Limestone 'Plough Station' - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Agricultural, sheep and cattle station (called 'Plough Station) located on the river flats of Bundamba creek. Bordered by the current Cascade Street, Raceview Street and Robertson Road, Ipswich. Sold in 1848.

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1848

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc480e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

New Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
New Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government farm attached to the Moreton Bay (Brisbane) settlement situated on both sides of Moray Street on the high ground. Bowen Terrace was the track the convicts walked to the New Farm.

Extended Data

Start Year
1839
End year
1842

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc480f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

North Fremantle - invalid depot

Placename
North Fremantle - invalid depot
Type
Other

Details

Description

By 1855 was also used an an invalid depot. Described in 1856 as "two large wooden depots, now used for invalids and a road party".

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc485d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Freshwater Bay - Invalid Station

Placename
Freshwater Bay - Invalid Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

For two years the former Road station was re-used as a convict invalid depot.

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1856

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc485e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Convict hospital

Placename
Parramatta - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1791 Tench described the first Convict hospital as 'two long sheds, built in the form of a tent, and thatched capable of holding two hundred patients.

Extended Data

Start Year
1789
End year
1792

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc483d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Parramatta - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Several dozen wattle and daub huts 12ft by 24ft (3.6m x 7.3m) constructed along the main Streets of Parramatta (esp. George St) to house convict workers, with as many as a dozen originally billeted in each. Each hut also had a garden.

Extended Data

Start Year
1788
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc487d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Convict hospital

Placename
Parramatta - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described by Colllins as 'a brick hospital, consisting of two wards'

Extended Data

Start Year
1792
End year
1818

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc483e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Macquarie - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Port Macquarie - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Port Macquarie Prisoner barracks - moved in the later period to within the south side of the Lumber Yard. Visible in the 1840 plan of the town.

Extended Data

Start Year
1840
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc487e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Emu Plains - female factory

Placename
Emu Plains - female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

Female stockade lasted two years. Further women were sent to the Government Farm in 1822 but supposedly soon withdrawn, alhough reports from 1825 still list women as being at Emu Plains.

Extended Data

Start Year
1816
End year
1818

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4849
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Fish River - Road station

Placename
Fish River - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Appears to be associated with the Cox's Road (Great Western Road); construction and walling near Fish River.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a6
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Newcastle - Female factory

Placename
Newcastle - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. A separate small range of Barracks at the gaol for the accommodation of 50 female convicts

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1848

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc484a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Female factory

Placename
Parramatta - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

Located on the upper floor of the (second) Parramatta gaol

Extended Data

Start Year
1802
End year
1820

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc484b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Manyeuring Spring - Road station

Placename
Manyeuring Spring - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Reported to be a convict depot near here.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48bb
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Diamond Swamp - Road station

Placename
Diamond Swamp - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Western Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a1
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Redcliffe - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Redcliffe - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1825

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4881
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Breakfast Creek - Road station

Placename
Breakfast Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4893
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bringelly (Bingelly) - Road station

Placename
Bringelly (Bingelly) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp associated with the Great North Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4894
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bugle Tree Creek (21 Mile Camp) - Road station

Placename
Bugle Tree Creek (21 Mile Camp) - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the York Road.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1860

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4895
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Windsor - Convict hospital

Placename
Windsor - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Converted from 1820 convict barracks barracks, with extensions.

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4841
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Flagstaff Hill - Road station

Placename
Flagstaff Hill - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1835
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a8
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Box Hill - Road station

Placename
Box Hill - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road camp associated with the Windsor Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4897
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Brisbane - Convict hospital

Placename
Brisbane - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Replaced the original tent used for sick convicts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4842
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Claise Brook Abbatoir - Work party

Placename
Claise Brook Abbatoir - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1853

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4963
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Mullalyup - Convict Oven

Placename
Mullalyup - Convict Oven
Type
Other

Details

Description

Site registered on WA Heritage List as Mullalyup Convict Oven, 2.5km north of Mullalyup (SW Highway), but no details provided. May indicate a former road camp site.

Extended Data

Start Year
1864
End year
1876

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4843
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bathurst - Female factory

Placename
Bathurst - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

May have been established in the existing 1815 Commissariat buildings, although Hendriksen and Liston (et al. 2008) suggest it was the old Military barracks (p.48). Operated until new gaol opened.

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4845
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Five Mile - Road station

Placename
Five Mile - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Described in a return of Road Parties as located between Grose Farm and Longbotton and having 31 men (Great Western Road/ Parramatta Rd)

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48a7
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Brisbane - Female factory

Placename
Brisbane - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4846
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Coalcliff - Road station

Placename
Coalcliff - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Illawarra Road from Cooks River Dam to Bulli - Road gang bush camp for 10 to 20 men. The building of huts is mentioned by Assistant Surveyor William Dark

Extended Data

Start Year
1844
End year
1845

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4898
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Woodanilling - Convict Well

Placename
Woodanilling - Convict Well
Type
Other

Details

Description

HCWA notes 'The well was dug by convicts who were working on the construction of the Sound Road (Albany Highway) during the mid 1850's'. May indicate a road station..A stone hut nearby may have been contemporary or constructed by free settlers in the early 1860s. .

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1860

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4844
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Windmill - Work Party

Placename
Windmill - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Attached to Kingston (Norfolk Island) settlement.

Extended Data

Start Year
1842
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4976
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Cockfighter's Creek - Road station

Placename
Cockfighter's Creek - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road gang camp for the Great North Road, inlcuding Road Gangs #42 (July-Sept 1830), #27 (May 1833), #13 (June 1833), Iron Gang #7 (1833-34). No other site information available

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4899
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Dapto - Road station

Placename
Dapto - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1835
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc489e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Eagle Farm - Female factory

Placename
Eagle Farm - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

Female convicts in Brisbane started to be removed to the Eagle Farm agricultural establishment to reduce fraternisation. SIte consisted of a number of slab buildings inlcuding a school, hospital (plastered), workhouse, needle room, several four-roomed accommodation buildings and a block of six cells surrounded by a double fence with the outer a stockade of poles 17 feet (5.2 metres) high.

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4848
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island Longridge (Machonochie's) - Convict gaol

Placename
Norfolk Island Longridge (Machonochie's) - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Experimental prison design with 12 cells.

Extended Data

Start Year
1840
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4837
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island Cascade - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island Cascade - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Agricultural establishment (part of Norfolk's 'second settlement') on the northern side of the island. Used primarily for convicts direct from England. Barracks were three ranges of weather-boarded huts with 20 men in each (c300 men total) in square formation within a stockade enclosure, a cook and bakehouse, as well as three cells for solitary confinement and buildings for administrators.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4810
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Nannup - Bridge party

Placename
Nannup - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Bridge constructed at the fording point across the Blackwood River at Nannup.

Extended Data

Start Year
1866
End year
1866

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4822
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Redbank Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Redbank Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of the agricultural establishments attached ot the Port Macquarie settlement

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4811
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Ten Mile Hollow (Snodgrass Valley) - Bridge party

Placename
Ten Mile Hollow (Snodgrass Valley) - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Clares Bridge party noted as working in Snograss Valley under Overseer Arnold Clare - May 1830 disbanded 1832?

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4823
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Warren - Bridge party

Placename
Warren - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Location uncertain. May have been south of Manjimup where the Warren River crosses the Southwest Highway.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4824
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Williams River - Bridge party

Placename
Williams River - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Road party presumed ot have been working on Windsor Road somewhere close to the bridge

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4825
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bathurst - Bridge party

Placename
Bathurst - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Absconders noted as absconding from the Bathurst Bridge party

Extended Data

Start Year
1833
End year
1833

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4826
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Darling Range - Road station

Placename
Darling Range - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc489f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Landsdowne (Bowlers Bridge ) - Bridge party

Placename
Landsdowne (Bowlers Bridge ) - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stone span bridge constructed by Master Mason David Lennox to replace the former hardwood bridge known as Bowler's Bridge. Stone was punted from a quarry 11km downstream on the Georges River.

Extended Data

Start Year
1834
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4827
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Brisbane - Female factory

Placename
Brisbane - Female factory
Type
Other

Details

Description

Constructed on the edge of the convict settlement. Consisted of seven rooms normally housing approximately 35 women, an external kitchen, washroom and workrooms within a walled compond.

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4847
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Minninup Bridge - Bridge party

Placename
Minninup Bridge - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Following the establishment of a convict depot at Bunbury, a small party of convicts in charge of Sergeant Henry Trigwell was sent to Minninup to be employed on Public work, which included the first bridge over Minninup Brook and a small brick building near their camp to serve as a a gaol'. WA Heritage Register

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1852

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4828
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Orphan School Bridge - Bridge party

Placename
Orphan School Bridge - Bridge party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4829
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Albany - Convict gaol

Placename
Albany - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Established for convicts working within Albany town and surrounding region

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1873

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc482a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Brisbane - Convict gaol

Placename
Brisbane - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

There were 16 solitary cells, built from rough stone and measuring 7 feet and 9 nine inches long by just 2 feet and 2 inches wide.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1860

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc482b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Newcastle - Convict gaol

Placename
Newcastle - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. First gaol constructed in stone by Lt Thompson prior to 1816. By Dec 1818 had been converted into a hospital.

Extended Data

Start Year
1816
End year
1818

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc482d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Newcastle - Convict gaol

Placename
Newcastle - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. Second Gaol. Two-storied Georgian style building with a central corridor with cells running off from either side. Later surrounded by a 12 ft brick wall.

Extended Data

Start Year
1818
End year
1827

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc482e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Convict gaol

Placename
Parramatta - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

100 foot long double log walled structurefor 22 prisoners enclosed within a high paling fence, burned down by arsonists.

Extended Data

Start Year
1796
End year
1799

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc482f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Parramatta - Convict gaol

Placename
Parramatta - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Two storey sandstone building initiated by the Rev Samual Marsden.

Extended Data

Start Year
1804
End year
1841

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4830
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Pinchgut (Rock Island, Fort Denision) - Convict gaol

Placename
Pinchgut (Rock Island, Fort Denision) - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Small island used as a prison or place of punishment for convict recidivists. A gibbet was installed in 1796. Later rebuilt as a fortification with a stockade for construction gang.

Extended Data

Start Year
1788
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4831
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Macquarie - Convict gaol

Placename
Port Macquarie - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1831
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4832
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Macquarie - Convict gaol

Placename
Port Macquarie - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1840
End year
1858

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4833
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Macquarie - Convict gaol

Placename
Port Macquarie - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Between 1859 and 1912, this gaol acted as a police lock-up for prisoners serving short terms of 14 days or less.

Extended Data

Start Year
1859
End year
1912

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4834
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Redcliffe - Convict gaol

Placename
Redcliffe - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1825

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4835
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Toodyay - Convict gaol

Placename
Toodyay - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Description

A lockup prior to transfer to Fremantle.

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1861

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4836
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Canterbury Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Canterbury Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Mentioned by Commissioner Bigge as a 50 acre property leased from Mr Campbell for the puPRoses of growing fodder and providing pasturage. 11 convicts stationed there

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1821

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc480a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Parramatta - Lumberyard

Placename
Parramatta - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

Site of the government sawpits, blacksmith shop and workhops, with over several hundred convict workers. In the 1820s the lumberyard was moved closer to the Charles Street Wharf.

Extended Data

Start Year
1790
End year
1820

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4864
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bathurst - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Bathurst - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

22 cottages in 2 rows, 'built of good bricks and thatched with a chimney to each' with shutters for windows (1829 report). By early 1830s at least half are gone and none left by 1841.

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1841

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4872
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bathurst - Convict hospital

Placename
Bathurst - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government establishment for convicts. Part of Bathurst town: 'Tradition has it that the first hospital, a government establishment for convicts, was opened in a four-room weatherboard building at the corner of Howick and Bentinck Streets in 1824.' (Wikipedia). Transferred to Colonial administrations in 1842. Destroyed by fire in 1878.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1878

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4838
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island, One Hundred Acre Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, One Hundred Acre Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 100 acres

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4803
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Busselton (Vasse) - Convict hospital

Placename
Busselton (Vasse) - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

WA Heritage Office: http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Public/Inventory/Details/9d5b87df-b78a-4ad0-8888-2dcb36cbbe77

Extended Data

Start Year
1869
End year
1896

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4839
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Liverpool - Convict hospital

Placename
Liverpool - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Brick building constructed 1813 as a hospital for convicts and soldiers. Macquarie describes it as 'A brick-built Hospital, with kitchen and other necessary out-houses, sufficiently roomy to accommodate thirty patients, an extensive garden being attached thereto for the use of the sick; the whole of the premises being inclosed with a strong fence'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1813
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc483a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Liverpool - Convict hospital

Placename
Liverpool - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Designed by Francis Greenway in 1822 (although final design may not be his) and completed in 1829 as a hospital for convicts and soldiers.

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1958

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc483b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island, Pettit's Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Pettit's Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 34 acres

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4804
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Soldiers Gardens - Agricultural station

Placename
Soldiers Gardens - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Garden plots shown on 1840 plan

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4805
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island, Fothergill's Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Fothergill's Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 80 acres

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47fc
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Old Banks - Agricultural station

Placename
Old Banks - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1812 Gov Macquarie allowed 4 serving convicts (The four convicts were Benjamin Davis, George Pell, John Reynolds and John Swan) to take up small farms along the Paterson Rv as a reward for for procuring a special order of cedar logs.

Extended Data

Start Year
1812
End year
1815

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4807
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Eagle Farm - Agricultural establishment

Placename
Eagle Farm - Agricultural establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

Established 1829 as a secondary agricultural establishment with more than 700 acres cleared for cultivation (maize and potatoes), with some cattle and pigs. Continued as a Government Stock Station until 1841.

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47ee
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island, Commandant's Garden - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Commandant's Garden - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Plans show garden plots

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47fd
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Newcastle - Convict hospital

Placename
Newcastle - Convict hospital
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. Converted from original gaol. Described in 1818 as being built in stone, with a verandah all round it, with the site enclosed by a paling fence. An 1820 report to Gov MAcqurie suggests it could accommodate 24-29 beds, with 2 rooms under the verandah for women.

Extended Data

Start Year
1818
End year
1860

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc483c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Rollands Plains Sugar Plantation and Mill - Agricultural establishment

Placename
Rollands Plains Sugar Plantation and Mill - Agricultural establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

1830 Sale notice: 2560 Acres, on the Sth Bank of the River Wilson, with 164 acres for cultivation incl. 88 acres of sugar cane. ' The buildings consist of 1st. An extensive Brick Building for making Sugar, two Stories high, now used the lower part as a Commissariat Store, the upper Story, Sth Wing by a Military Guard capable of containing 30 Men, the Nth Wing, a comfortable Residence.... 2d. A Sugar and Flour Mill, substantially built and in good repair... . 3d. Two good Slab Cottages, and one large Slab Shed. 4th. Overseer's House, weather-boarded, four Rooms with Kitchen and Outhouses ... 5th. Prisoners' Barracks...; six Huts...' and two extensive Slab Tobacco Sheds'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47ef
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Settlement Farm (Allman's Plains) - Agricultural establishment

Placename
Settlement Farm (Allman's Plains) - Agricultural establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

The Government agricultural establishment situated closest to Port Macqaurie. Would appear to have had crops and cattle.

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f0
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Toongabbie Farm - Agricultural establishment

Placename
Toongabbie Farm - Agricultural establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

First expansion beyond Parramatta/Rose Hill at the south of Toongabie Creek. Referred to as 'the new grounds', the cultivated land was 134 acres (54 hectares), and 13 large tent huts were built there. Huts may be seen on the first plan drawn of the area (Dictionary of Sydney).

Extended Data

Start Year
1791
End year
1803

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f1
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Bathurst - Agricultural station

Placename
Bathurst - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Founded as a government agricultural station until replaced by Wellington Valley in 1823

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1823

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f2
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Brisbane Government garden - Agricultural station

Placename
Brisbane Government garden - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

BUDDE (2021) notes that the settlement gardens grew maize, vegetables (including cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beans, potatoes, and pumpkins), and fruit (including banana, pineapple, citrus, and apple. 'There was a small hut where convicts would strip the maize kernels from the cobs before carrying the sacks to the windmill. There was a small piggery next to the corn shed'. Thirty- 35 convicts were employed on the agrdens, with as many as 40 women from the Female factory working on the other side of Wheat Creek.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f4
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Frederikstown Government Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Frederikstown Government Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Farm for the Frederikstown settlement greater than 1,536 in area. Leased to private settlers and then sold in 1833. Renamed Strawberry Farm.

Extended Data

Start Year
1829
End year
1833

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f5
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Frederikstown Green Island - Agricultural station

Placename
Frederikstown Green Island - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Farm for the Frederikstown settlement. Hut and a convict gardener stationed there full time. Grew beans, potatoes, cauliflowers, cabbages melons and maize.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f6
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Newcastle - Agricultural station

Placename
Newcastle - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement

Extended Data

Start Year
1818
End year
1827

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f7
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island, Antonio's Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Antonio's Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f8
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island, Burns' Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Burns' Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 20 acres

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47f9
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island, Drummond's Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Drummond's Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47fa
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Norfolk Island, Earsden Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Earsden Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 31 acres

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc47fb
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Rollands Plains - Agricultural station

Placename
Rollands Plains - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Noted in 1827 as having 130 men growing wheat and maize. 1830 sale notice: 2560 Acres on the sth bank of the WIlson River, 174 acres in cultivation for wheat, maize and tobacco. 'The Buildings consist of the Superintendent's House, 4 Rooms, detached Kitchen, with covered way, Verandah, Slab and Plaster built-extensive substantially built Granaries, Barn, Stock yard of high Slab Fence, and Pig-sties to contain from two to three hundred, five good Slab Cottages, a CaPRenter's Shed, Smithy, Bakehouse, and an extensive Slab Building hitherto used as a Prisoners' Barrack, and capable of containing 150.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4812
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Sancrox (Commandant's Farm) - Agricultural station

Placename
Sancrox (Commandant's Farm) - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Pt Macquarie Settlement

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4813
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Black Rock Farm - Agricultural station

Placename
Black Rock Farm - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government Farm in hinterland of Bathurst

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4814
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Emu Plains (No. 1 ) Government - Agricultural station

Placename
Emu Plains (No. 1 ) Government - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government Agricultural establishment. Described by Macquarie 1821 as: ' Strong log and weather-boarded Huts, for the residence and accommodation of 500 male convicts, with kitchen gardens inclosed and attached to the said huts, for the use of the convicts'. Associated commandants house, Military barracks and agricultural buildings. Also housed female convicts in some periods.

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4815
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Albany - Branch Establishment

Placename
Albany - Branch Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

"A depot for 60 men, quarters for four warders, cook-house, bake-house, lock-up, and quarters for one policeman; also commissariat store and quarters, and the necessary out-buildings'. Associated with local road and building construction. Became a public gaol in 1864 and transferred to the Colonial Govt in 1872.

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1872

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4816
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Freshwater Bay Branch Prison - Branch Establishment

Placename
Freshwater Bay Branch Prison - Branch Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1851 and with Fremantle prison still under construction, a 'branch prison was established at Freshwater Bay for the 80 Irish convicts who had arrived on the 'Phoebe Dunbar'. They were housed in a 'wooden depot' large enough to accommodate hammocks for 80 men, withfour small wooden houses for warders and stores. Exact location uncertain.

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1852

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4817
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:49

Sydney - Lumberyard

Placename
Sydney - Lumberyard
Type
Other

Details

Description

Centre for convict industry and manufacturing, housing blacksmiths, sawyers and caPRenters it employed wheelwrights, tin smiths, tool makers, brass and iron founders, coopers, gunsmiths, wheelwrights shomakers, etc. Described by Macquarie as: A large commodious brick-built Lumber-yard, situated nearly in the centre of the town, containing all the requisite workhops and covered-in saw-pits, for tire mechanics and artificers in the immediate service of government, with an arsenal for arms and rooms for various stores, and also offices for the acting chief engineer and principal superintendent of convicts; having an extensive area of ground for timber, and, the whole premises inclosed with a stone wall twelve feet high.

Extended Data

Start Year
1789
End year
1832

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4869
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Moreton Bay (Brisbane) Settlement - Penal station

Placename
Moreton Bay (Brisbane) Settlement - Penal station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Established as a mainland penal settlement remote from the areas of colonisation to the south (NSW).

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1842

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc486a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Kings Town (Newcastle, Coal River) - Penal station

Placename
Kings Town (Newcastle, Coal River) - Penal station
Type
Other

Details

Description

A convict camp was established to mine coal and cut timber, as well as to control some of the unregulated occupation of the area. The settlement closed less than a year later

Extended Data

Start Year
1801
End year
1802

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc486b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Newcastle - Penal station

Placename
Newcastle - Penal station
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1804 the Coal River was resettled as a closed convict settlement. Opened for free settlement in 1822. Military rule ended 1823.

Extended Data

Start Year
1804
End year
1822

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc486c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Norfolk Island, Kingston settlement - Penal station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Kingston settlement - Penal station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Penal and administrative centre for the convict penal settlement ('second settlement'). Included Military barracks, convict barracks, prison and administration buildings. Described in detail in Stewart's 1846 report.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc486d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Comleroy - Road station

Placename
Comleroy - Road station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Identified as a convict camp established at the Hunter Valley end of the Comleroy Rd 'to build a major Police station consisting of soldier's quarters, stables, stockade and outbuildings'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1823
End year
1823

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc489b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Port Macquarie - Penal station

Placename
Port Macquarie - Penal station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Secondary Punishment settlement replacing Newcastle. The hinterland included timbergetting, limeburning and agriculture as wellas the first sugar plantation and mill (Rollands Plains). During convict period had a full establishment of convict barracks and huts, industrial areas, military and admknistration. After 1830 the town was opened for free settlement but convicts remained na important part of the town..

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc486e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Darlinghurst Prison - Prison

Placename
Darlinghurst Prison - Prison
Type
Other

Details

Description

Boundary walls and gate constructed 1822-24 and then a lapse until work recommenced in 1836. First prisoners from 1841. Stone-built panopticon style prison with are six rectangular cellblocks in a radial fashion around a central chapel.

Extended Data

Start Year
1841
End year
1914

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc486f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Fremantle Depot ('The College') - Prison

Placename
Fremantle Depot ('The College') - Prison
Type
Other

Details

Description

Pentonville-design, constructed as the main depot and prison for Imperial convicts sent to Western Australia, capable of housing 1000 men in cells and association rooms (dormitories). Transferred to the colonial government in 1886 and renamed Fremantle Prison.

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1886

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4870
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Bathurst - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Bathurst - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst town. Described by Macquarie (1822) as 'Temporary log huts as barrack for 50 male convicts' close to the river. Precise location unknown

Extended Data

Start Year
1815
End year
1822

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4871
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Brisbane - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Brisbane - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Erected in two sections - the southern end (1828) and the northern (1829), replacing the original temporary convict huts. The barracks was described in Tom Petrie's reminiscences and included different wards for the different classes of prisoners, a chapel, workhops and storerooms, situated in a walled compound. It could accommodate up to 1000 convicts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4874
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Brisbane - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Brisbane - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Original convict huts. After 1826 used as overseers huts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1825

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4875
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Carter's Barracks - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Carter's Barracks - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

Barracks for convict gangs working on the brick fields as carters and brickmakers. Described by Macquarie as: [A barrack] for 200 male convicts, at the " Brick Fields," and also stables for the whole of the government working horses and bullocks; with a garden for the use of the convicts. Included treadmill.

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1835

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4876
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Fort Dundas - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Fort Dundas - Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

One of the several northern Australian outposts. Approximately 50 convicts were sent up to the military outpost. Location of 'Prisoner barracks' shown on 1827 plan of the settlement.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1829

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4877
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Lane Cove - Sawing establishment

Placename
Lane Cove - Sawing establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

Est. 1805 in the upper Lane Cove catchment, cutting Blackbutt, Blue Gum and Iron Bark for building purposes and Casuarina for roof shingles. Timber was brought down the ridge along what was later called Fiddens Wharf Road and after conversion sent downstream to the Sydney Lumberyard. By Gov. Macquarie's visit in May 1810 timber was getting scarce and he suggested the camp would need to move. A number of public buildings including the hospital (now Parliament and Mint) used Lane Cove timbers. The timber station was then moved ot Pennant Hills.

Extended Data

Start Year
1805
End year
1816

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f5
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:50

Cedar Cutting Establishment (Barren Hills, Epping) - Sawing establishment

Placename
Cedar Cutting Establishment (Barren Hills, Epping) - Sawing establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

An area labelled 'Cedar Cutting Establishment' is shown to the west of the Barren Hills 'New Govt Sawing establishment'. May be a sub-station. No additional information.

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f6
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:50
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Pennant Hills New - Sawing establishment

Placename
Pennant Hills New - Sawing establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

Supplied sawn timber and shingles to Public work.

Extended Data

Start Year
1816
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f7
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Woodford Bay (Nichols Bay, Longueville) - Sawing establishment

Placename
Woodford Bay (Nichols Bay, Longueville) - Sawing establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

Early area for timber extraction, grass (reed) cutting for thatch, and for shell (midden) burning for lime, but may be confusing with the 1805-16 Lane Cove Sawing establishment. Further research required to verify activities and sites, although this was almost certainly the

Extended Data

Start Year
1794
End year
1804

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f8
Created At
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Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Duffy's Gully - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Duffy's Gully - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Noted as 54 acres. Stockyard and structure shown on map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4908
Created At
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Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Norfolk Island, Pipers Farm - Stock station

Placename
Norfolk Island, Pipers Farm - Stock station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of the Norfolk Island Settlement. Stockyard and structure shown on map

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1855

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4909
Created At
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Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Woodford Bay (Nichols Bay, Longueville) - Sawing establishment

Placename
Woodford Bay (Nichols Bay, Longueville) - Sawing establishment
Type
Other

Details

Description

Sawing establishment including sawpits, huts, wharf, The first Europeans to inhabit this area were convict timber cutters and their overseers, who set up camp around 1805 near the end of Fiddens Wharf Road. Sawpits, huts, a wharf and well were constructed. Wikipedia entry notes ' In 1814, 48 convicts and one overseer worked at the site. Even then, much of the best timber had been cut out. This site was disbanded about 1819'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1805
End year
1819

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48f9
Created At
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Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Barren Hills (Barren Ridges, Epping, New Government) - Sawing Station

Placename
Barren Hills (Barren Ridges, Epping, New Government) - Sawing Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Supplied sawn timber and shingles to Public work. In 1820 it was described as having workheds, as well as wooden barracks and huits and a chapel for the c.75 men, as well as a small prison for 'refractory' convicts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1831

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48fa
Created At
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Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Oxley Creek - Sawing Station

Placename
Oxley Creek - Sawing Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Sawing station in the Brisbane hinterland. Had one hut for the overseer and two for the convict sawyers.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48fc
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Maria River - Sawing Station

Placename
Maria River - Sawing Station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Although other studies have suggested a convict camp - possibly a timber getting camp - was established in the area by 1820, this seems some years too early.

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1820

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48fd
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Newcastle (Coal River) - sawpits

Placename
Newcastle (Coal River) - sawpits
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. Early sawpits for cutting cedar before loading to ships. Somewhere on the inner side of Pirate Point.

Extended Data

Start Year
1801
End year
1801

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48fe
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Western Port (Corinella) Settlement - Settlement and Prisoner barracks

Placename
Western Port (Corinella) Settlement - Settlement and Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

A small military outpost established late 1826 to prevent French settlement in the area. Population consisted of detachments of the 3rd and 93rd regiments and a group of convicts. Site abandoned about 12 months later as uninhabitable.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1827

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc48ff
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Western Port (Phillip Island - Fort Dumaresq) - Settlement and Prisoner barracks

Placename
Western Port (Phillip Island - Fort Dumaresq) - Settlement and Prisoner barracks
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1826 Fort Dumaresq was established on Phillip Isl by Captain Wright with troops and 21 convicts as a defense against French occupation. Inadequate water supply saw the settlement moved ot the mainland at Corinella (Settlement Point).

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1826

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4900
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Woolloomooloo - Stockade

Placename
Woolloomooloo - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stockade erected as early as 1823 to allow convicts to quarry stone for the new gaol. An 1866 report notes that Darlinghurst Gaol was constructed on the site of the former stockade: 'the present walls enclosing the stockade as well as the prisonadmission to the stockade being obtained through a gateway on the eastern wall; this gateway has been for some years closed up; though until very lately the eastern part of the en-closure has been known in the prison as 'The Stockade.'' There are mentions of the stockade until at least 1848, although whether this actually references the gaol is unclear.

Extended Data

Start Year
1836
End year
1837

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4947
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Cox's River (No. 2; Junction, Mt Walker) - Stockade

Placename
Cox's River (No. 2; Junction, Mt Walker) - Stockade
Type
Other

Details

Description

Convict stockade and outbuildings capable of holding 600-800 persons. Associated with the construction of the Great Western Road (Bathurst Rd).

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4948
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Cooks River s - stockades

Placename
Cooks River s - stockades
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stockades for 200 men built on both sised of Cook's River while the dam and bridge wre being constructed. Also described by Lady Franklin in June 1839.

Extended Data

Start Year
1839
End year
1842

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4949
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Newcastle - Stockyards

Placename
Newcastle - Stockyards
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Newcastle Settlement. A long Shed, with Stock yard, for the government working oxen

Extended Data

Start Year
1804
End year
1822

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc494a
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Goulburn Plains - work camp

Placename
Goulburn Plains - work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

Associated with the Great Southern Road

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc494b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Brisbane windmill and treadmill - Work camp

Placename
Brisbane windmill and treadmill - Work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

The windmill was constructed to grind the maize for the settlement, although the wind mechanism proved difficult and most of the power appears to have come from the attached treadmill, operated by 16 convicts with 8 persons waiting and used as a secondary punishment.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1838

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc494c
Created At
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Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Geraldine Mine - Work Camp

Placename
Geraldine Mine - Work Camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

First operational mine in W.A. Private entePRirse but with government backing using convict labour.

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1856

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc494d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Bathurst tannery - Work Party

Placename
Bathurst tannery - Work Party
Type
Other

Details

Description

Part of Bathurst town. Est. by Commandant John Fennell to provide leather for Govt. needs. Sold for private operation after 1828.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1828

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc495c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Kangaroo Point - Work camp

Placename
Kangaroo Point - Work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

Quarry for 'porphyry' (Brisbane tuff) for building in the new Brisbane settlement. Rock was punted across the river.

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1839

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc494f
Created At
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Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Liverpool Weir, George's River - Work camp

Placename
Liverpool Weir, George's River - Work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

Designed by Master Mason David Lennox and constructed by iron gang directed by Captain WH Christie. Constructed as a water supply for the LivePRool area and as a causeway across the river.

Extended Data

Start Year
1836
End year
1836

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4950
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Pennant Hills Stone Quarry - work camp

Placename
Pennant Hills Stone Quarry - work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

Maj. Thos. Mitchell recommended this deposit of columnar basalt be quarried as 'blue metal' for road construction. Transported from the Ermington Wharf by boat to Sydney. Subsequently operated (until 1940) by Local governments after which it was filled.

Extended Data

Start Year
1832
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4951
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Preston Creek (Bennett Brook) Quarry - Work camp

Placename
Preston Creek (Bennett Brook) Quarry - Work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

CARTER (1984) p58 In January 1868 a party of the most feared convicts, the Irish political prisoners, or Fenians' were sent to work at the quarry. Site of quarry unknown.

Extended Data

Start Year
1850
End year
1868

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4952
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Prospect Hill Quarry - Work Camp

Placename
Prospect Hill Quarry - Work Camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

Use as a quarry for broken grey dolerite - road 'bluemetal' for Great Western Road (Parramatta Road) since 1820s.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1850

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4953
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Port Essington - work camp

Placename
Port Essington - work camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

In 1844 20 convict stonemasons were sent to the settlement for four months to help construct the beacon on Smith Point as well as several other buildings including the hospital. It is not known at this time where or how they were accommodated.

Extended Data

Start Year
1844
End year
1844

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4954
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Padbury Hill - Work Camp

Placename
Padbury Hill - Work Camp
Type
Other

Details

Description

HCWA entry for Padbury Road reports: " It is believed convict labour constructed the road now known as Padbury Hill Road as part of the Blackwood Road. During the construction period (c. 1860s), a convict camp was established at the top of Padburys Hill, where the remains of stone fireplaces and oven were still visible in the late 1970s."

Extended Data

Start Year
1860
End year
1861

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4955
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

Sydney dockyard - work station

Placename
Sydney dockyard - work station
Type
Other

Details

Description

Located on west side of Sydney Cove. Described by Macquarie in 1821 as 'The old Dock Yard enlarged and greatly improved, with new building and repairing docks, wharfs, quays, sail-rooms, and all the requisite workhops, including boat-houses; and also offices for the master-builder and master-attendant of the colonial, marine; the whole of the premises being inclosed with a stone wall twelve feet high.... A stone-built Barrack, contiguous to the dock yard, for the accommodation of the cockswain and crews of the government boats, inclosed with a high stone wall'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1797
End year
1833

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc498b
Created At
2023-11-28 14:37:51
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:37:51

AA Company Coal Mine Newcastle - Work station

Placename
AA Company Coal Mine Newcastle - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-27.422603
Longitude
153.088709

Description

In 1828 the Australian Agricultural Company was given a monopoly on coal mining in NSW and granted 2000 acres near Newcastle, taking over the government workings. The first sale and shipment of coal was made by the Company in 1831Although not a government site it was a major employer of convicts. Pinned ot location of the main pit on 1830 plan (Armstrong).

Extended Data

Start Year
1828
End year
1900

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc498c
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Albany - Convict gaol

Placename
Albany - Convict gaol
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-31.277292
Longitude
152.691421

Description

Established for convicts working within Albany town and surrounding region

Extended Data

Start Year
1852
End year
1873

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc498d
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Albany - Branch Establishment

Placename
Albany - Branch Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-31.426194
Longitude
152.878757

Description

"A depot for 60 men, quarters for four warders, cook-house, bake-house, lock-up, and quarters for one policeman; also commissariat store and quarters, and the necessary out-buildings'. Associated with local road and building construction. Became a public gaol in 1864 and transferred to the Colonial Govt in 1872.

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1872

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc498e
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Albany - Branch Establishment

Placename
Albany - Branch Establishment
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-33.78699875
Longitude
150.951004

Description

"A depot for 60 men, quarters for four warders, cook-house, bake-house, lock-up, and quarters for one policeman; also commissariat store and quarters, and the necessary out-buildings'. Associated with local road and building construction. Became a public gaol in 1864 and transferred to the Colonial Govt in 1872.

Extended Data

Start Year
1855
End year
1872

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc498f
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Albany - Hiring Depot

Placename
Albany - Hiring Depot
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-33.415195
Longitude
149.584687

Description

"A depot for 60 men, quarters for four warders, cook-house, bake-house, lock-up, and quarters for one policeman; also commissariat store and quarters, and the necessary out-buildings'.

Extended Data

Start Year
1851
End year
1854

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4990
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Amity Point Pilot Station - Work station

Placename
Amity Point Pilot Station - Work station
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-31.29966063
Longitude
152.7026942

Description

In 1825 a pilot station was established to guide ships travellingto the Moreton Bay penal settlement via the South Passage. This was Stradbroke Islands first non-indigenous settlement and closed in the 1840s.

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4991
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Argyle Bridge Party - Work gang

Placename
Argyle Bridge Party - Work gang
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-27.475538
Longitude
153.028756

Description

Argyle Bridge Party is a common reference in absconder records, but presumably refers to a gang -probably working at different locations on the Great South Road (Hume Highway) within the County of Argyle - rather than a specific location. Later these gangs were probably based out of Towrang Stockade and it is conceivable that there may have been an existing road or bridge gang site in the vicinity. This point, positioned near the stockade - is close to the centre of the County and provides some spatial reference.

Extended Data

Start Year
1820
End year
1880

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4992
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Aston Hill Limekilns - Work party

Placename
Aston Hill Limekilns - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-35.018194
Longitude
117.900139

Description

Quarry for Port Macquarie

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1840

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4993
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Ballengarra (Ballyngarra, Commandant's Farm Ballyngarry, Balingarah, Ballangarie) - Agricultural station

Placename
Ballengarra (Ballyngarra, Commandant's Farm Ballyngarry, Balingarah, Ballangarie) - Agricultural station
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-34.98575
Longitude
117.951887

Description

2560 acres. 'The Buildings are erected on the Hill immediately above [the farm], and consist of one House with two Rooms, Kitchen ... two Huts joined, the Residence of the Overseers, a capacious Barn... with a Stockyard adjoining-and several Slab Huts.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4994
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Ballengarra Wharf - Work party

Placename
Ballengarra Wharf - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-32.930639
Longitude
151.782182

Description

Wharf situated at navigable head of Maria River for removal of timber and agricultural produce including sugar from the Rollands Plains and Bellengarra agricultural establishments. Dates require checking.

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1826

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4995
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49

Ballengarra Wharf - Work party

Placename
Ballengarra Wharf - Work party
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-29.048941
Longitude
167.932724

Description

Second wharf constructed for removal of timber and agricultural produce including sugar from the Rollands Plains and Ballengarra agricultural establishments. Dates require checking.

Extended Data

Start Year
1827
End year
1830

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc4996
Created At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
Updated At
2023-11-28 14:48:49
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