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Female convicts were a varied bunch. They ranged in age from children to women in old age, but most were in their twenties or thirties. Many were single, but some were married and some were widowed. A small proportion brought children with them on their journey of transportation.
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Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia (Paperback) ... Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more) female orphan institution, female convict ships, convict women, convict protest, orphan schools, female convicts, recalcitrant behaviour,
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The marital status of the female convicts is under dispute. Some believe that the women lied and claimed to be single so as to allow them the opportunity to find a husband in Australia. ... Prostitution was not a transportable offence but it is a charge levelled against female convicts by contemporaries and earlier historians.
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Governors Hunters Assignment Report 1798 on Women Convicts ... Women Convicts featured in; Governor Hunter's Assignment Report 1798; 1798 Governor Hunter Assignment Report - Women Convicts.; ISBN 0 958786 1 1. Out of print. PDF version (Jan 2005);
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Sailors and Convicts were in and around the women's tents, some queuing for sex, others made love with women they had forged attachments on the voyage. Perhaps the women were willing parties in the orgy, but if they weren’t, they probably didn’t have much ... The most difficult women were sent to female factories,
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On arrival, female convicts were sent directly to the Female Factory. Some did not live in the Factory, but were housed nearby and went to the Factory every day for work. Many only remained a day or so before they were assigned to settlers to work as domestic servants.
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