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| CONVICTS to Queensland |
| CONVICT SHIPS to Queensland 1849 - 1850 |
| Their are now so many sites becoming available for researching your Convict Ancestors - that these pages would go on for ever. I have included basic search sites on these pages below:
My suggestion is that you search GOOGLE and enter Convicts Queensland or Moreton Bay for continued updated sites |
| Moreton Bay
In 1824 Moreton Bay was selected as the site for a separate penal settlement to house Sydney's worst convicts. Its brutality was notorious and by 1839 an official decision was made to end transportation to Moreton Bay. During the 1840s, however, convict ships continued to be diverted from Sydney and in 1849 a change in government in Britain led to yet another overturn in policy. As a result, a convict transport was sent directly from Britain to Moreton Bay, but the change in policy proved to be short lived. With transportation to all of the eastern colonies drawing to a close, the last direct shipment for Moreton Bay left Britain in April, 1850. |
| 10/12/1859 QUEENSLAND separated from New South Wales. In 1824 the explorer Lieut. John Oxley took a party of 30 convicts and established a penal colony at Redcliffe. Known as the Moreton Bay Settlement, this later moved to the site now called Brisbane. The name Brisbane Town was in use by 1825 and the main inhabitants in the area were the convicts of the Moreton Bay Penal Station until it was closed in 1839. Around 2,280 convicts were sent to the settlement between 1824-1839 and at the end of 1836 the convict population numbered 337.
The first free settlers moved to the district in 1838 and others followed in 1840. On 23/12/1862 the area of QUEENSLAND was increased. |
| QLD Convicts - great starting point |
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