Jewish convicts in Western Australia

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Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 11, 5 (1992)

Author(s) Louise Hoffman AbstractBy the late 1840s, following the failure of two immigrant and land settlement schemes, the Swan River Colony was a stagnant backwater with a European population of less than five thousand persons.1 Progress was impossible without further capital and labour. The convict era in Western Australia began in reality when the ship Scindian anchored off Fremantle on 1 June 1850 carrying seventy-five convicts. In the eighteen years of transportation, 9668 convicts were sent to Western Australia, all of whom were men and at least 27 of whom were Jewish.
Year1992
Pages844-849