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Louisa Collins was the fifth woman to be judicially executed in New South Wales and the first to be executed in Sydney. Prior to Louisa Collins' execution in January 1889, there had been four other women hanged in the colony of New South Wales, each of them convicted of the murder of their husbands.
On 31 January she was delivered by wagon to Gravesend, and embarked on the ship Lady Penrhyn. Ann Martin was one of 101 female convicts who arrived in New South Wales on the First Fleet. At Port Jackson on 19 August 1788, a watchman found Ann so drunk that she could hardly stand, throwing things about and shouting abuse.
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David Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales: With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, vol 1, 1798, facsimile edition, Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1971, p 558; Val Attenbrow, Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the Archaeological and Historical Records, University of New South Wales Press ...
Mary Bryant was the first convict to successfully escape the colony of New South Wales and return to Britain. David Collins wrote of the brazen getaway in March 1791: In the course of the night of the 28th, a convict of the name of Bryant…eluded the watch that was kept upon him, and made his escape, together with his wife and two children (one an infant at the breast), and seven other ...
Part 1: 1788-1815. At the end of the 18th century, a tiny British penal colony was established on the east coast of a vast southern continent. In their minds this was uncharted land, but the colony they helped to establish displaced the many Aboriginal groups who called it home. For the new arrivals, this was to be a self-sufficient farming ...
EARLY COLONIAL SYDNEY 1790 - 1809. Period covered by this chapter - 1st July 1790 to 31st December 1809 Governors of the Early Colonial Sydney 26th January, 1788 to 10th December, 1792: Captain Arthur Phillip, Governor-in-Chief. 11th December 1792 to 11th December, 1794: Major Francis Grose administered. 12th December, 1794 to 11th September ...
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Oct 6, 2018 · He was the first person hanged in the colony of New South Wales. John Bennett – 2 May 1788 – A 20-year-old convict who was publicly hanged at Sydney Cove for theft. Samuel Payton – 25 June 1788 – A 20-year-old convict and stonemason hanged for stealing shirts, stockings and combs. Edward Corbett – June or July 1788 – Hanged at ...
