early settlers in australia
Life was hard for many people who settled in the early years of colonial Australia, but some people came out to be successful. Australia is now a vibrant continent but it wouldn't have been this way if it wasn't for the people who established it and the migrants who arrived. These people who were included were, convicts who were sent to Australia from different countries by transportation, free settlers who wanted to start a new life in a new land, and the migrants who were pouring in during the gold rush to strike it rich.
A vast number of convicts were sent to Australia as a form of punishment for petty crimes like stealing clothes some of which became successful. The youngest convict to be transported to Australia at the age of only 11. The crime which she committed was that she stole another girls clothes and for that she was sentenced to death by hanging. Luckily for her, just days before her hanging George III had recovered from his mental meant that all the women on death row had their death sentence changed to living in Australia. Mary spent her life in Australia reproducing and made it to 21 offspring. Mary Wade is considered to be one of Australia's founding mothers who at the time of her death she had
300 descendants.
Although some convicts we successful, most struggled with their new life in Australia.
Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict born in 1790 who was transported to Van Diemen's
Land now known as Tasmania, for seven years because of theft. He escaped from prison multiple times, but was eventually captured and was hanged in Hobart in mid july 1824 for murder and the many attempts of escape.
After the convicts have laid a basic foundation for Australia the country begun to look stable for free settlers to flock in. Frederick Edmund Meredith (January 16, 1862 –
September 23, 1941) was a Canadian businessman and lawyer. He was the 8th
Chancellor of Bishop's University, President of the Mount Royal Club, Chief of the
A vast number of convicts were sent to Australia as a form of punishment for petty crimes like stealing clothes some of which became successful. The youngest convict to be transported to Australia at the age of only 11. The crime which she committed was that she stole another girls clothes and for that she was sentenced to death by hanging. Luckily for her, just days before her hanging George III had recovered from his mental meant that all the women on death row had their death sentence changed to living in Australia. Mary spent her life in Australia reproducing and made it to 21 offspring. Mary Wade is considered to be one of Australia's founding mothers who at the time of her death she had
300 descendants.
Although some convicts we successful, most struggled with their new life in Australia.
Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict born in 1790 who was transported to Van Diemen's
Land now known as Tasmania, for seven years because of theft. He escaped from prison multiple times, but was eventually captured and was hanged in Hobart in mid july 1824 for murder and the many attempts of escape.
After the convicts have laid a basic foundation for Australia the country begun to look stable for free settlers to flock in. Frederick Edmund Meredith (January 16, 1862 –
September 23, 1941) was a Canadian businessman and lawyer. He was the 8th
Chancellor of Bishop's University, President of the Mount Royal Club, Chief of the