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Frederickstown - Prisoner barracks

Placename
Frederickstown - Prisoner barracks
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
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 Military and convicts withdrawn in March 1831 with the settlement given over to be the Swan River Colony and renamed Albany.

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ID
tc4878

Extended Data

Start Year
1826
End year
1831