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Tocal's convicts

Introduction

Who were they?

Young, male & single

Stumped at Tocal

Tocal's Irish rebels

Tocal's English rioters

Mother and son

Assigned to Tocal

'Off the Stores'

The convict lottery

Living at Tocal

Rough and ready

Tocal in 1834

Meat and damper

To die for a cup of tea

Sundays - God or grog?

Where were the women

Working at Tocal

60 hours a week

Shepherds and dingoes

Clearing the rainforest

Hoes and bullocks

Sweat and sawdust

Tocal's stonemason

Tocal's butchers

Further punishment

Cooperate or defy

Bled greatly...

Convict-powered mills

Iron gangs

Penal settlements

Tocal's bushrangers

Cockatoo Island

Barney killed Costigan

One-stop justice

A hard master?

Becoming free

Pathways to freedom

Ticket of Leave

Convict constables

Making a fresh start

Stud groom

Family reunion?

End of transportation