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Author Hasluck, Alexandra, Lady.

Title Unwilling emigrants : a study of the convict period in Western Australia / Alexandra Hasluck
Edition First edition republished
Published Sydney [N.S.W.] : Angus and Robertson, 1969

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 W'PONDS  994.103 Has  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 165 pages, 9 unnumbered plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents Includes texts of letters from Myra Sykes to her husband William who was transported for life
Summary Inspired by letters written by Myra Sykes to her husband William, transported for life as a result of a night's poaching during which a gamekeeper was killed. In the 1850s the Swan River settlers, desperately short of labour, were petitioning the British Government to send convicts to the colony. The convicts who came were set to work on making roads and bridges, and on raising public buildings. William Sykes is treated as the prototype of the many convicts who came to Western Australia
Analysis Convicts - Australia - Western Australia
Notes First published in 1959 by Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 156-159
Subject Sykes, William, 1827-1891.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Biography.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Exiles -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Penal colonies -- Great Britain.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography.
Prisoners.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Exiles -- History
Western Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089339 -- Exiles
Western Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117437 -- 1829-1900
Western Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117437 -- 1851-1891
Western Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117437 -- To 1829
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Sykes, Myra, -1894.
LC no. 73541919
ISBN 0207952183
Other Titles Study of the convict period in Western Australia