Hoping to get a look at the prisoner book, GG Aunt Fanny Taylor was a repeat
offender (mostly drunk and disorderly), 1880s til her death 1926.
Maree J
From: dps-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dps-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Rob Nelson, Perth WA
Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:19 AM
To: dps-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [dps-chat] Re: Fwd: 74 original WA convict pics found among Fremantle
Prison records
G'day Caroline & Bev (& any others interested in ex-Freo prisoners).
Although the new book to be released by the Friends of the Battye Library deals
only with the 74 re-offenders who started their life in this colony as
transported convicts, there's another newly released book that may be of more
general interest:
I note that you gals have been interested in more recent offenders in your
family yarns and I'd really love to hear those yarns in the future if you're
prepared to share them with the general ALL.
Here's the official info on Hesperian Press' recent release entitled "Prisoners
of the Past":
---- < Hesperian's Peter Bridge writes >--->
Compiled by Calliope Bridge, Celene Bridge, Angela Teague, Mark Chambers & Tom
Hogarth
ISBN978-0-85905-657-1, (New, 2017), A4, fully illustrated and indexed, 329
pages, 900 grams
$60.00* + POST
All the mugshots of prisoners released from Fremantle Gaol from 1899 to 1919,
over 3850, and fully indexed. A unique picture of the past showing the features
of those who had transgressed. Interestingly, non-Europeans, apart from the
obligatory Aboriginals, form a far larger proportion of the prisoners than
their kind would represent as a percentage of the whole population.
That certain elements do not obviously appear to be represented should not be
taken as any indication of their lack of criminality. It may be that they were
imprisoned for longer terms for more serious crimes and so do not appear in
among the more general riff-raff with the frequency that might expected by
their general behaviour. Early feminists are there in their glory, proclaiming
their equal rights to criminality. (The publisher’s great aunt among them).
There is great room here for the study of, say, the records of the 10,000
transported convicts, recidivists, the colonially grown, and the freely
imported transgressors. The joys of multiculturalism have been with us a long
time. This will be a valuable reference for genealogists, historians, and
budding phrenologists.
Should this offering be attended with the deserved sacrifices, both numen and
nomisma, then consideration will be given to a much larger, detailed,
compilation, of those votaries of the great retreat from society that overlooks
the Western Ocean.
Released February 2017.
<----
Cheers, ROB!
