"As it Were Another America": English Ideas of the First Settlement in New South Wales at the End of the Eighteenth Century

1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Frost
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales

Recovering and Reporting Australia's Early Colonial Case Law: The Macquarie Project

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Kercher
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Penal Colony ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Late Eighteenth

When it was established in 1788, New South Wales became the most remote, and most peculiar, of the British empire's overseas colonies. The founding colony of what would eventually become Australia, it was established as a penal colony, a place to send the unwanted criminals of Britain and Ireland. Britain lost more than the majority of its North American possessions in the late eighteenth century. It also lost its principal repository for unwanted felons. New South Wales filled the gap.

Forgetting and Remembering: Scots and Ulster Scots Memorials in Eighteenth-century Ulster, Pennsylvania and Nineteenth-century New South Wales

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-51
Author(s):  
Harold Mytum
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
Formed Part

Mortuary monuments were used by Scots and Ulster Scots as they selectively chose to forget or remember their origins once they settled in new lands around the world. Those who moved to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century and New South Wales in the nineteenth century employed different strategies regarding how they would create their identities and promote or discard aspects of their origins. Burial monument texts look back over the deceased’s life, but they are also selected by the living to create publicly visible family history and affiliation. Through both text and symbol on the memorials, families create visible, meaningful, biographies. Using survey data from Pennsylvania and New South Wales collected to investigate diasporic remembering and forgetting, this analysis recognises a widespread prevalence of forgetting and an increasing interest in creating new identities in the colonial context. However, some saw their origins as part of their identity and this formed part of the visible family biography.

scholarly journals Irish Convict Transportation and the Reach of the State in Late Hanoverian Britain

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-85
Author(s):  
Simon Devereaux
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The State ◽  
Leeward Islands ◽  
Cape Breton ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Convict Transportation ◽  
British State

Abstract The difficulties encountered by English authorities in resuming the regular and effective transportation of convicts overseas between the loss of the original American destination in 1775 and the opening of a penal settlement in New South Wales in 1787 are well known to historians of criminal justice. Far less so is the contemporaneous convict crisis in Ireland. This article considers the practice of convict transportation from Ireland throughout the eighteenth century. In particular, it examines a series of three dramatic incidents of the late 1780s in which Irish convicts were unscrupulously (though not illegally) abandoned in Cape Breton, Newfoundland and the Leeward Islands. It argues, first, that such practices were not entirely surprising given the great difficulties that had often been experienced in transporting convicts from Ireland even before 1775. It goes on to suggest that the subsequent decision of authorities in London to assume a directive role in the transportation of Irish convicts was informed by changing perceptions of the British state in both its national and imperial dimensions.

John White's Journal of a voyage to new South Wales (1790): comments on the natural history and the artistic origins of the plates

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
LOUIS J. PIGOTT
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Viewpoint ◽  
The Uk

This paper discusses three groups of eighteenth century watercolour drawings (two in Australia and one in the UK) which are related to the plates in John White's Journal of a voyage to new South Wales (1790). The 65 plates are then discussed individually giving identifications of the specimens depicted and notes on the natural history of each species from an historical viewpoint.

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