Convict transportation
10 Sep 1823 - escapee re-transported to NSW
On the 10th of September 1823 Susan Courtney was tried in England for returning from transportation.
Convict Sydney
Convict hulks
In the 21st century we are accustomed to thinking of imprisonment as one of the more obvious forms of punishment for convicted criminals. This was not so in the past.
!['Margaret stealing the horse' [Margaret Catchpole]](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/03/89a390f0a8b8414f8ab61e222da8604d.jpg)
The remarkable Margaret Catchpole
A Suffolk countrywoman turned Hawkesbury midwife; twice sentenced to death and twice reprieved; transported to New South Wales in 1801 and transformed after her death into a romantic literary heroine