Abandoned Women: Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas
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In the early 19th century, crofters and villagers streamed into the
burgeoning cities of Scotland, and families splintered. Orphan
girls, single mothers, and women on their own all struggled to feed
and clothe themselves. For some, petty theft became a part of life.
Any woman deemed habite & repute a thief might find herself before
the High Court of Justiciary, tried for yet another minor theft and
sentenced to transportation beyond Seas. Lucy Frost memorably
paints the portrait of a boatload of women and their children who
arrived in Hobart in 1838. Instead of serving time in prison, the
women were sent to work as unpaid servants in the houses of
settlers. Feisty Scottish convicts, unaccustomed to bowing and
scraping, often irritated their middle-class employers, who charged
them with insolence, or refusing to work, or getting drunk. A stint
in the female factory became their punishment. Many women survived
the convict system and shaped their own lives once they were free.
They married, had children, and found a place in the community.
Others, though, continued to be plagued by errors and disasters
until death.
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