James Osborne: Convict 62
The arrival of the barque Scindian at Fremantle on 1 June 1850 signalled the start of Western Australia’s period as a penal settlement.1 Then known as the Swan River Colony, the State had been founded as a colony of free...
In Search of Elizabeth
Janice Young named her book In Search of Elizabeth after Elizabeth Roser, daughter of William and Diana, whom she believed had disappeared from the family home. This is how she explained it: Among the first of William’s tasks, was to...