Prisoners barracks, Moreton Bay, 1839

Moreton Bay, QLD
Australia
1 January 1839
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Moreton Bay, QLD
Australia

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Elevations and plans of prisoners barrack buildings Moreton Bay with alterations and additions required for the converting into a permanent military barracks, officers quarters, hospital etc etc, July 1839. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

The Commissariat Store, Brisbane, 1972. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Allan Webb and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Convict-built windmill, erected in 1829, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, 1971. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Allan Webb and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Plan of the limits of the town of Brisbane, 1843

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
1 January 1843
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Plan of the limits of the town of Brisbane, 1843. On 10 February 1842, three years after the penal colony officially closed, the district was proclaimed open to free settlers. New residents found a frontier town with vestiges of suburbs, basic government buildings, a network of roads and a navigable river. This map, by the Surveyor in charge of the Moreton Bay district Henry Wade, shows the Commissariat Store (C Store) and Windmill. Also plotted are the ferry crossing to South Brisbane, saw pit, hospital, survey office, post office, gaol, police barracks, church, factory, Government House, wharf, government garden, and old burial ground. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Moreton Bay, c1830

One Sunday morning as I went walking
By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
I heard a convict his fate bewailing
As on the sunny river bank I lay

12 November 2010
12 November 2010

From Geoffrey C. Ingleton, True patriots all, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1952. Logan became Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1826. He was hated by the convicts for his harsh methods. He did some exploring and was surveying the Upper Brisbane river when he was killed by Aborigines in 1830. Logan was a relentless flogger as shown in a sample record of his floggings that were noted in the diary of one of the prison clerks. This records that from February to October in 1828 Logan ordered 200 floggings with over 11,000 lashes. When Logan's body was brought back to Moreton Bay, the convicts ‘manifested insane joy at the news of his murder, and sang and hoorayed all night, in defiance of the warders’. 

Between September 1824 and late 1839 a small remote penal settlement was established at Moreton Bay on Australia’s north-eastern coast.

Penal Settlement, St Helena Island, 1986. Slides by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library.

Copyright © Michael Keniger and the Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Plan of the island of St Helena, HM Penal Establishment, Queensland, 1887

St Helena Island, QLD
Australia
27° 23' 26.088" S, 153° 14' 8.2428" E
1 January 1887
1 September 2010
1 September 2010

Location

St Helena Island, QLD
Australia
27° 23' 26.088" S, 153° 14' 8.2428" E
Brisbane
Government Printer
Collection of the National Library of Australia

A few surviving examples of Queensland colonial prisons have been heritage-listed and are now used for cultural tourism. St Helena Island, 1887. Collection of the National Library of Australia.

The imposition of a new and dominant system of law was an important part of the European settlement of Queensland.

The Old Windmill, Wickham Terrace, overlooking Brisbane, cover image Walkabout, June 1959, Centenary issue. Copyright Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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