Join us on Thursday, 22 October from 10.30 am Qld time, for an online QSA talk, ‘Offenders, paupers and “pioneers”: Convict women and their families in pre-Separation Queensland’, presented by HGRC Visiting Fellow, Jan Richardson.

Jan discusses her research on female convicts and ex-convicts who arrived in Moreton Bay after the closure of the penal settlement in 1839. Her current project comprises a more extensive examination of historical and genealogical records — including photographs, family trees and cemetery records — to reconstruct the lives of these women, many of whom married ex-convict husbands and raised families during Moreton Bay’s earliest years of free settlement.

Livestream link: https://livestream.com/qldstatearchives/offenderspaupersandpioneers?fbclid=IwAR2GWQX7rVHFrLHfRqO9aLRVu65h_dSJtM48ZYxPzORRxezgyu2bi8YKWSM