For Their Country's Good

The sailing vessel, Harmony, transported ninety six female convicts from Great Britain to Australia in 1829. The social background of the age cohorts, which cluster around birth years 1793 and 1805, are presented. The women came from Ireland, Scotland and England, and most were born in small towns or the country; seventeen were Londoners and an additional eleven came from large towns. The heights of the women are compared to economic indexes by a regression analysis in order to assay a secular trend. Heights are also compared to those of other women in the nineteenth century. Details of the voyage to Van Diemen's Land are presented, as are facts concerning individual women

Archaeology · Art · Convict · Economic history · Geography · Secular variation · Sociology · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History

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