Contains an alphabetical listing of all individuals sentenced to transportation in South Australia. General information about South Australian convicts sent to the other colonies is also found in, SA convicts sentenced to transportation 1837-1851 by Graham Jaunay (1995).
South Australia was an experimental British colony and the only Australian colony which did not officially take convicts. But naturally some former convicts made their way to South Australia. Men who had completed their sentences came to settle here, usually hiding their convict past if possible. This ranged from prosperous shipping agents, Emanuel and Vaiben Solomon, down to a number of farmers in the hills and around the south coast.
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South Australia was an experimental British colony and the only Australian colony which did not officially take convicts. But naturally some former convicts made their way to South Australia. Men who had completed their sentences came to settle here, usually hiding their convict past if possible. This ranged from prosperous shipping agents, Emanuel and Vaiben Solomon, down to a number of farmers in the hills and around the south coast.