Darlington Penal Settement
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Cartographic Name
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Darlington Penal Settement
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Identifier
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SITE-MR
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category
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Penal Settlement
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temporalCoverage
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1825- 1832, 1842-1850
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sourceOrganization
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Lord Bathurst’s Directive (1819)
Governor Arthur’s Penal Expansion (1825)
Lord Stanley’s Probation System
Transportation and Probation Act (1834-1847)
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text
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“The Commandant resided on the hillslope to the south, overlooking the settlement … allowing surveillance over the prisoners by those in charge.” Mundy, Godfrey Charles. Our Antipodes: Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies, Vol. II. London: Richard Bentley, 1852, p. 295.
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"Among the people exiled to the isle were several of the Maori chiefs who had been concerned in the New Zealand rebellion … Hohepa Te Umuroa … died July 9th, 1847" Australian History. Lord, Clive. “The Early History of Maria Island.” Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1919, p.48.
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"The Government considered that the island would make an excellent convict station, as not only was it a natural penitentiary but appeared to be a suitable locality in which to grow flax" Colonial Reporting. Lord, Clive. “The Early History of Maria Island.” Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1919, p.47.
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Source
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Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office (TAHO)
Libraries Tasmania
Maria Island National Park Centre J.R. Morris (1964). Early Convict History of Maria Island, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania.
Clive Lord (1919). The Early History of Maria Island.
J. Lempriere (1839). Memoirs of a Convict Chaplain.