Maitland researchers unearth convict links to journalist Ray Martin Caroline Haines was one of more than 1000 convict women sent to the Hunter. Newcastle Herald · May 17, 2024
Battlers beneath the bonnets: untold stories of the Hunter's female convicts Crimes of survival saw female convicts shipped to Australia in a harrowing six-month journey across the sea, exiled to a new colony and often sold off for cheap.Some succeeded, some didn't. Others went down swinging. Newcastle Herald · Feb 18, 2023