News - May 2023

Tuesday 16 May - 7:30pm General Meeting

VENUE:Old Sunday School, St Johns Park Precinct

GUEST SPEAKER:Lucy Frost

TOPIC:Unpaid and unfree: Children apprenticed from the Queen's Orphan Schools

Of the 6,000 children who went through the Queen's Orphan Schools between 1828 and 1879, many were retrieved by their convict mothers or another relative - but not all. For thousands of 'orphans' (whether 'orphaned' by death or by the convict system), there was no such reprieve. They remained institutionalised until they were 12-14, and were then 'apprenticed'. Instead of an apprenticeship in the traditional sense of being bound to a master to learn a trade, these children were sent out as unpaid labour under much the same conditions as the assigned convicts before them. "White slaves", they were sometimes called in letters to newspapers deploring their conditions.

Their circumstances are the subject of this talk.

Lucy Frost began researching the experiences of convict women and their children soon after taking up her appointment to the Chair of English at the University of Tasmania in 1997. During her decade as a director of the Female Factory Historic Site, Ltd (2001-2012), she and fellow Board member, Alison Alexander, organised the research group that grew into the Female Convicts Research Centre, of which she became the Founding President. While writing Abandoned Women (2012), her study of convict women tried in Scotland, she became increasingly interested in children confined to the Queen's Orphan Schools - the subject of her most recent book, Convict Orphans (2023).

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Thu 18 May - 10.00am Branch Committee Meeting

VENUE: Branch Library, Bellerive

Thu 18 May - 1.30pm DNA Group Meeting

VENUE: St Marks Church Hall, Scott Street, Bellerive

Thu 25 May - 2pm Library Committee

VENUE: Branch Library, Bellerive

Tues 20 June - 7:30pm General Meeting

VENUE: Old Sunday School, St Johns Park Precinct

SPEAKER: Moira McAllister

TOPIC: The Tricky Business of Fact and Fiction: the story of Dr Barry Cotter and his wife Inez

Library Accessions May 2023

Books

* Atkinson, James J; BY SKILL & VALOUR - Honours and Awards to the Royal Australian Navy for the First and Second World Wars [359.10994 ATK]

* Betjeman, John; CITY OF LONDON CHURCHES [942.1 BET]

* Clarke, R.S.J; GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS - VOLUME 4, County Down - Baronies of Upper and Lower Castlereagh [929.929.3269415 CLA]

* Clarke, R.S.J; GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS - VOLUME 7, County Down - Baronies of Dufferin and Lecal [929.929.3269415 CLA]

* Clarke, R.S.J; GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS - VOLUME 14, County Down - Barony of Ards [929.929.3269415 CLA]

* Finkel, George; FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH, QUEENSLAND 1824-1900 [994.3 FIN]

* Geeves, Lance: HEAVEN IS OUR HOME[994.62 GEE]

* Gov. Printer, Tas 1987;VENTURING WESTWARD - Accounts of Pioneering exploration in Western and North Western Tasmania by Messrs Gould, Gunn, Helyer, Frodsham, Counsel and Sprent.

* Kostoglou, Parry; HISTORIC TIMBER-GETTING BETWEEN COCKLE CREEK AND LUNE RIVER - Block 1 [634.909946KOS]

* Kostoglou, Parry; HISTORIC TIMBER-GETTING BETWEEN HASTINGS AND DOVER-Block 2 [634.909946KOS]

* Kostoglou, Parry; HISTORIC TIMBER-GETTING BETWEEN GLENDEVIE AND FRANKLIN - Block 3 [634.909946KOS]

* Martin, Maureen and Sandra Duck;INDEX TO PASSENGER ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES from EARLY LAUNCESTON NEWSPAPERS - Volume 1: 1829-1840, A-L[929.38 MAR]

* Martin, Maureen and Sandra Duck; INDEX TO PASSENGER ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES from EARLY LAUNCESTON NEWSPAPERS - Volume 1: 1829-1840, M-Z [929.38 MAR]

* Odgers, George; REMEMBERING KOREA - Australians in the war of 1950‑53 [355.3 ODG]

* O'May, Dave; FERRIES OF THE DERWENT [356.609946 OMA]

* Petrow, Stefan; LOOK AFTER THE MISSUS AND KIDS - A History of Hobart Legacy, 1923-2023 [369.5 PET]

* Petrow Stefan; SANITORIUM OF THE SOUTH? Public Health and Politics in Hobart and Launceston, 1875-1914 [362.109946 PET]

* Price, Anita (Mitch); GRAVE SITES OF THE HUON VALLEY, Part 2; The Middle Huon Area - Surges Bay to Castle Forbes Bay

* Sharland, Michael; VINTAGE RAILWAYS[385.0994 SHA]

* Southerwood, W. T; PLANTING A FAITH - Hobart's Catholic Story in Word and Picture [282.9461 THO]

* Telfer Family History Association Inc. A TELFER FAMILY TREE - A Supplement to From the Borders To The Bush [Q929.2 TEL]

* Thomas, Harold; SAM THOMAS AND HIS NEIGHBOURS[994.65 THO]

* Thomasson, Judith M; PATHWAYS TO OUR PAST - A history of Henrietta Elizabeth West and her descendants

* Whishaw, Mary Kinloch; TASMANIAN VILLAGE - A Story of Carrick [994.63 WYH]

* Williams, John; ORDERED TO THE ISLAND - Irish Convicts and Van Diemens Land [365.9946 WIL]

* Woolley, Richie; THE WOOLLEY FAMILY IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 1837-1997 [Q929.2 WOO]

* Willoughby, Howard; AUSTRALIAN PICTURES

* Wyatt, Douglas Morris; TASMANIA'S EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, WORLD WAR ONE - 1914 [355.3 WAY]

* Denotes complimentary or donated item

Elected Positions 2023-2024

President	Ros Escott
Vice-President	Louise Rainbow
Secretary	Andrew Cocker
Treasurer	Geoff Mason

Confirmation of Appointed Positions 2023-2024

Assistant Treasurer	Lyndal Ayers
Auditor	Alan Beardwood
Branch Resource Manager	Maurice Appleyard
Assistant Resource Manager	Clint Ayers
Branch CSI Project Coordinator	Richie Woolley
DNA Interest Group	Ros Escott
Librarian	Judith Mudaliar
Library Committee	Judith Mudaliar, Pam Campbell, Maurice Appleyard
Library Computer Manager	Clint Ayers
Media Liaison & Facebook Coordinator	Eddy Steenbergen
Minute Secretary	Val Peterson
Monday Working Group	Julie Kapeller
Newsletter	Judith Crossin
Publications Committee	Colleen Read, Thelma McKay, Julie Kapeller
Research Officer	Louise Rainbow
General Meetings Speaker Coordinator
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