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Norfolk Island Special Bundles Index

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This Colonial Secretary's Special Bundle includes a variety of letters, papers and returns relating to Norfolk Island, dating from 1794 to 1813.

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The records include, for example, victualling and 'slop' clothing books, lists of persons on and off the stores and an annual return of settlers and convicts.

 

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  • Norfolk Island Guide

    As well as being a penal establishment, one of the primary reasons for establishing the first settlement at Norfolk Island was economic: the Colonial Government had hoped to utilise the flax and pine trees on Norfolk Island.

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Convict life on Norfolk Island

Convict life on Norfolk Island was severe and often brutal. This page is a snapshot of one convict, John Walsh, who spent ten years on Norfolk Island from 1834 to 1844. 

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Map of Norfolk Island Settlement

This is an 1829 plan of the Settlement and Garrison Farm, Norfolk Island, Surveyed by Captain Wakefield [NRS 13859, Map 6321].

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