Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
3 November 1840
The number of prisoners of the crown in New South Wales on the 30th of June, 1840, was as follows:—
Assigned in private service, 21,850; holding tickets-of-leave, 8278; female factory, 707; in the gaols throughout the colony, 436; Hyde Park Barracks, 372; in the Commissariat department, 56; in the Medical department, 123; in the Surveyor General’s department, 156; at Port Phillip, 103; at Moreton Bay, 60; at Port Macquarie, 747; at Illawarra, Cockatoo Island, and elsewhere, 214; on the roads in irons, 1265; at Norfolk Island, 1841, (27 original conviction, 1204 colonial penal crimes, 610 first conviction under new system).—Grand total, 38,305.
From 1837 to 1839, inclusively, there arrived in the colony 26,473 immigrants (namely, 11,243 men, 6989 women, and 8241 children); 8791 convicts (namely, 7197 men, and 1594 women); and during the same three years, inclusively, there were born in the colony 8410 children. Sum total of increase of population within the aforesaid period, 43,674 souls. The deaths within the same date were 6384 (namely, 3031 men, 1135 women).
See Original: “No title,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Tuesday 3 November 1840, p.2
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