Many were very young. The youngest was a nine year old chimney sweep sentences to transportation for stealing. Many children and teenagers were caught trying to steal food and other goods just to survive, and British justice was swift and harsh.
Convicts were sent to Australia by England.
They were simply called "convicts".
There were no convicts sent to Darwin. Darwin was only established some time after transportation of convicts to Australia ceased.
The first convicts were sent to Australia on the First Fleet, which consisted of eleven ships. Subsequent convicts were also sent on ships, as that was the only method for transporting any cargo overseas. There were no aeroplanes.
No. The English also sent convicts to Australia, but they stopped doing that and started sending them to Australia because America became an independent nation.
Criminals were not sent to Australia in 1900. Transportation of convicts was abolished in Australia in the 1848.
why didnt many convicts return to England
Transportation.
Children were frequently sent to New South Wales as convicts. The youngest known convict was a nine year old boy, John Hudson, a chimney sweep who was convicted for stealing clothes and a pistol.
Prior to the revolutionary war which formed the USA, another 60,000 convicts were sent to North America (some sources say 50,000). About 165,000 British convicts were transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868. British convicts were also sent to Canada, as well as to its outposts in India, the Cape of Good Hope, Bermuda and Mauritius. Figures for these convicts are unknown, particularly as some of them were then sent on to Australia.
The first people sent to colonise Australia were convicts and the officers and marines sent to supervise them.
It was a rebellion of convicts sent to Australia