The Female Emigrants
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Between
1833 and 1837, fourteen ships departed Gravesend, England and Dublin &
Cork, Ireland under the auspices of the London Emigration Committee (LEC),
which organized the first scheme for female emigration between Great Britain and
the Australian colonies on behalf of the British government. The ships carried
approximately 2,700 bounty women to Sydney, Hobart and Launceston.
Click
here to see the
names of the women.
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