Once convicts transported to North America or Australia completed their period of service, their fate varied. In North America, many were granted freedom and integrated into society, although some faced challenges due to their criminal past. In Australia, many convicts received land or employment opportunities and could eventually become free settlers, contributing to the development of the colony. In both cases, the degree of reintegration depended on the individual’s behavior and the prevailing social attitudes towards former convicts.
In Australia, once the convicts' term of sentence was completed, they usually chose to stay in Australia. Opportunities back in England were few to none, and they stood a much better chance in Australia, where they were given assistance to purchase land for farming, or to set up a trade.
Australia.
Convicts were first transported to Australia's eastern coast in 1788.
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According to Charles Bateson's "Convict Ships", the total number of Australian convicts sent to Australia, all colonies included, from the time of the First Fleet to the end of Transportation, was 160,151.
Convicts stopped being transported to Australia in 1865.There are prisoners, however, which are quite different to convicts.
There was only one way to transport anyone to Australia in colonial times, and that was by large ship.
Convicts first landed in Sydney, New South Wales. Later, they were also sent to colonies in Tasmania, Moreton Bay and the Swan River (Western Australia).
Convicts to Australia were transported for seven years, fourteen years, twenty-one years or the term of their natural life.
It seems that they they did relatively well on the First Fleet. However the same can not be said for the many convicts transported to Australia after that.
Over 160,000 prisoners were transported from Britain to penal colonies in Australia during the 18th and 19th centuries. Some of the offenses included stealing an animal, theft of goods valued over 5 shillings, and the unlawful cutting down of a tree.
Convict transportation to Australia ended when the last convict ship left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Australia on 10 January 1868. Sources vary, but the total number of convicts transported to Australia between those years is estimated to have been around 162,000. Figures vary from 157,000 to 165,000.