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The Factory above the Gaol – women convicts in 1818

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

When my great-great-great grandmother Sarah Marshall stumbled off the convict transport Friendship on January 14, 1818, she emerged from a traumatic journey of confinement and scurvy which became notorious for ‘indecent and licentious intercourse’ to find herself in an alien … Continue reading →

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