AUSTRALIANA Convicts –

An invaluable genealogical and historical research tool this volume has brief biographies of more than 1500 convicts, seamen and soldiers of the NSW Corps as well as free women and children who sailed with the fleet.

The Second Fleet consisted of six ships – four transport ships and two storeships arrived in Sydney Cove in 1790.

Three of the transport ships carried mostly male convicts and the other transport ship, The Lady Juliana, only carried women. The Lady Juliana was the first all-female transport ship and the female population of Sydney more than doubled when it arrived.

The convicts on all the ships were mistreated, rations were poor and sickness rife. Of the approximate 1250 male convicts, over 25% died en route to NSW (in comparison to just 2.8% of those on the First Fleet) and many more died within a year of reaching Sydney (Flynn 2001).

Almost half of the convicts who arrived in Sydney required immediate hospitalisation and about 80 died within three weeks of arrival.

• xii, 788 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm. #041025 SCARCE

• • “Reprinted with Addenda & Corrigenda 2001”–T.p. verso.
  • Bibliography: p. 741-744.

  Subject:

  • Second Fleet, 1789-1790
  • Convicts — New South Wales — Biography