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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial
• Sale Date:
  15 Jul 2018 ~ 12noon (AEST)
• Lot #:
  398
• Lot Description:
  CASCADES No.14 Convict Work Gang Record Book: July 1865 to September 1866
  72pp printed book, 20.5 x 16.5cm, leather and vellum bound, completed in manuscript with tipped-in instructions followed by records of the men in Gang.14 during this period - their names, the ship on which they were transported or arrived from Port Arthur, or, in some cases, if they were native born, the nature of their work, the period during which they performed their tasks, their conduct, their industriousness and the name of ther Officer in Charge. Some of the tasks noted: Feeding Pigs, Horseman, Field labor, Bullock driver, Fencing, Farm labor, Splitting fencing, Burning Ashes, Feeding Cattle, Cook & Baker, Blacksmith, Cleaning the Station, Minding Pigs, Servant, Ploughing, etc.
• Notes:
  Various notations include "Transferred to Impression Bay", "Discharged to Hobart Town", "From Port Arthur", "Discharged to Port Arthur", "To Cascades as Servant", "1 day to Hospital", "Discharged to Freedom", "Tranferred to E.H. Neck", etc. Completely legible; a remarkable surviving document. The Cascades House of Correction occupied the former Female Factory at Cascades, South Hobart, in 1856. It housed the children of the prisoners living there as well as children who were orphaned or neglected and waiting for transferral to Queen's Asylum or the boarding-out system.
• Estimate:
  A$1,000 - 1,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Collectables

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