FEMALE CONVICTS RESEARCH CENTRE - TASMANIA
janilye
The next seminar of the Female Convicts Research Centre will be held on Sunday, 24 April 2016, in the Hobart Town Hall Registration will open early 2016, with members being notified by email closer to the date.
Members are invited to present 15-minute papers at the seminar, The subject will be:
The Cascades Female Factory, 1828 - 1877
Is there an area of the Female Factory you are interested in? Food, clothes, nursing, staff, the 1841 inquiry, the Flash Mob, discipline ... there are many intriguing possibilities.
Note that the date range covers the later period when the Factory was a gaol and old age home.
As experience has shown that few stories of individuals have enough material about the Factory to shed much light on its history, we will be concentrating on more general papers.
Please submit your proposal by 20 December 2015.
If you are not a member; please consider becoming one by completing the Register as a Member form on the site. Membership is free.
Members are welcome from interstate and overseas, as well as those from Tasmania.
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janilye - 7th generation, Convict stock. Born in New South Wales now living in Victoria, carrying, with pride 'The Birthstain'.
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shihazel on 2016-01-28 03:18:06Not sure of the relevance of my information in regard to Cascades Women's Prison?Under births in the district of Hobart I have female child born 31/12/1870 to Charlotte Williams [my great grandmother] listed as spinster.father named as Charles Giles. The informant listed as [cannot decipher the name] superintendent cascades.
janilye on 2016-02-27 01:36:51This is a registration reminder of the Female Convicts Research Centre seminar Riots, repression and reform: the Cascades Female Factory. We have some fascinating papers lined up, telling us about many facets of life at the major institution for female convicts in Van Diemen’s Land – as well as music from the convict period. Places are filling fast, but there are still vacancies available.
Date: Sunday 24 April 2016
Venue: Hobart Town Hall, Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania.
Time: 9.30am to 3.00pm
Cost: $30 (includes morning tea and light lunch) to be paid in cash on the day.