Established in the penal settlement at Moreton Bay was a place of secondary punishment to house hardened criminals and recidivist prisoners. The first commandant of the new settlement was Lieutenant Henry Miller of the 40th Regiment to They were under the control of military commandants with detachments numbering up to soldiers. The Moreton Bay penal settlement was closed in when the Moreton Bay area was opened to free settlement, with Brisbane Town as its centre.
The colony of Queensland was separated from New South Wales in Of great interest to researchers is The Chronological Register of Convicts at Moreton Bay Series ID which identifies each person under sentence, the ship of transportation to New South Wales, occupation and full details of original and colonial sentences.
In the Brisbane Town superintendent of convicts Peter Beauclerk Spicer compiled a journal describing penal settlement life during that year. Although we hold limited records in our collection on the initial convict settlement at Redcliffe, we do have a collection of records on the early convict settlement in the Moreton Bay region, which covers the time period of the initial settlement at Redcliffe and the subsequent settlement at Brisbane.
Wonderful thanks for sharing, during this time there was the Mission at Zion Hill now Nundah do you hold any maps of this area? My husband comes from Mr Wagner. Hi Jackqueline.
Thank you for your question. QSA does not seem to have any early maps showing the mission in the years prior to , so I recommend you contact the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying using this email address museum dnrm. Kind regards, Joanne.
His glowing reports of the country of the Darling Downs led early Settlers into the area. There was a push in early settlement by the need to avoid being charged for the land by the colonial government of NSW and attempts to define the limit of settlement was ignored.
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Thank you I am trying to trace my great grandparents who arrived on the Solon in I am researching and trying to find where they may have gone when they left the ship. I know they ended up in Toowoomba and Charleville, but can't seem to find how they arrived at these places.
Hi Don, thank you for reading our blog post. I've had a look for you and State Library does have one photo of Lt. Owen Gorman in the collections. If you would like any more help tracking down images and information on him or any other family history research our Libraries are happy to assist you. The State Library's collection of ephemera includes several boxes of Christmas cards, one of the…. In mid-June the men came across a wide river which they followed upstream for several kilometres.
This was the first European encounter with the Brisbane River. Over the next four days they located the mouth of the river, which Oxley named after the Governor of New South Wales, and rowed about 80 kilometres upstream. Oxley returned to Sydney on 6 December to report that Redcliffe Point was a suitable site to start a penal settlement. On 12 September the Amity arrived at Redcliffe. Within a few months it became clear that Redcliffe Point's environment was not suitable for a permanent settlement, and so a decision was made to relocate to the banks of the Brisbane River.
As Surveyor-General, Oxley was responsible for finding a settlement location and on his surveys of the Brisbane River, he had favoured two sites: near present-day Breakfast Creek and Milton.
They found a suitable location a few bends up the river from Breakfast Creek. There is no written evidence indicating why Miller made this decision or even the precise date that Brisbane Town was founded. By the settlement had about convicts, but Brisbane was little more than an encampment of rough slab and timber dwellings. The third commandant, Captain Patrick Logan, who took up his position in March replacing Captain Peter Bishop, who had a brief but ineffective term after Miller , began a program of public works, replacing temporary structures with stone buildings.
Around a windmill at Spring Hill was built to grind corn and wheat into flour. The windmill had two sets of millstones: one powered by wind sails, the other driven by a treadmill which served the additional purpose of punishing convicts, something that Logan notoriously pursued with exceptional brutality.
They were required to labour from dawn until sunset, and misbehaviour was punished by being fettered with leg irons, receiving up to lashes or enduring time on the treadmill. It was common for convicts in leg irons to work the treadmill in shifts of up to 14 hours. Check out these seven unmissable adventures to help inspire your spring getaway in Moreton Bay From May to September, get up close and personal with over 25, humpback whales migrating north This International Women's Day we're celebrating the bold, creative and inspiring women who lead Point your steering wheel to Moreton Bay this springtime.
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