How many prisons were there in the nineteenth century? Where were they located? How did they relate to each other? Find answers to these questions in our 19th Century Prisons Database... buff.ly/2OtcRx7 🗝️🗝️🗝️ #prison #prisonhistory #localhistory

As Jennifer McLaren demonstrates in this essay, convict women’s lives at the #ParramattaFemaleFactory changed greatly during the Bells’ reign; solitary confinement cells were built & the women generated revenue with needlework & laundry. Something else was allegedly afoot, too: fraud!

New on the St. John’s Cemetery Project blog! A repost of Jennifer McLaren’s blog about the process of researching & writing her recent #biography on #Parramatta #FemaleFactory matron Sarah Bell. Great tips for smashing through brick walls when researching 19thc women #twitterstorians #OzHist

This will particularly resonate with anyone writing their #familyhistory. Jennifer McLaren mentions her collaboration with #familyhistorians for her St. John’s Cemetery Project essay on Sarah Bell the matron of the Parramatta #femalefactory Female Factory Online

If anyone missed Jennifer McLaren’s essay, do check it out: stjohnscemeteryproject.org/bio/sarah-bell/ It forms part of a wonderful online collection St. John’s Cemetery Project that uses the St John’s Cemetery as a focal point from which to illustrate varied experiences of life in the early colony of NSW #ozhist

Sarah Moses, featured in St. John’s Cemetery Project’s latest offering & buried at St John’s #Parramatta, was originally a convict in Van Diemen’s Land. She served a solitary confinement sentence there, most likely at the Cascades Female Factory...whilst pregnant! 😧

Breaking; Flying Fox Tragedy Sydney Parramatta Park colony & Windsor flying fox colony have crashed with FFs on the ground, dead & dying, dehydrated, over heat & organs fail. Our forest pollinators #ClimateEmergency #parramatta NSW RFS Gladys Berejiklian @JodiMcKayMP Naomi Klein

💧🌱 wentworth falls NSW RFS Gladys Berejiklian @JodiMcKayMP Naomi Klein Parramatta's Female Factory #flyingfoxcolony dying on NYE, possibly seeking cool of #NationalHeritage walls.. What are you able to do, will you Support @WIRES_NSW Volunteers with $$ Parramatta Park @NSWDPIE_Water The Hon. Matt Kean (and #climatecrisis) #nswpol

Now published on Female Factory Online, Jennifer McLaren's Create NSW-funded essay for St. John’s Cemetery Project on #Parramatta #FemaleFactory Matron Sarah Bell, which also tells the story of her husband, Factory keeper Thomas Bell: femalefactoryonline.org/bio/sarah-bell/ #OzHist #twitterstorians #convicthistory

Congratulations to PFFFriends for achieving 10,000 signatures in UnescoWorldHeritage petition for #Parramatta #FemaleFactory! To mark the moment, the Friends have organised this very special event: bit.ly/PFFUNESCO. Donations support CWA of NSW activities in disaster affected NSW!

#SamuelMarsden was on the #ParramattaFemaleFactory board of management &, as chaplain, married, baptised & buried many Factory women & children. Read about his “contested life” in Dr Matt Allen’s essay, on FFO & the Create NSW-funded St. John’s Cemetery Project: femalefactoryonline.org/bio/samuel-mar…

#FrancisGreenway also designed the #Parramatta #FemaleFactory & @sydlivmus #HydeParkBarracks & many more. #StJohnsParsonage was his first major work in the colony & first complete house by a professional #architect in #Australia.

🆕#OpenAccess article: Tobia Fattore Macquarie University and Jan Mason humiliation as instruments of state violence and the experiences of women and girls in Australian detention #OzHist #convicts #policing Female Factory Online ▶️doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd…

Not all women who died at the #Parramatta #FemaleFactory were convicts! Read Alex Cameron-Smith's latest Create NSW-funded piece for St. John’s Cemetery Project: "'The Indifferent Characters of Many of the Females': Mary Leeche & Colonial Controversy in the 1830s": stjohnsonline.org/bio/mary-leech…

Read all about the "forgotten" Scotch Martyr who became #Parramatta #FemaleFactory's very first superintendent in Alex Cameron-Smith's "He Was a Clever Chiel Geordie, Tae be Only a Weaver: #GeorgeMealmaker," supported by Create NSW: stjohnsonline.org/bio/george-mea… #OzHist #ScottishHistory

Both of these biographical subjects in the Create NSW-funded St. John’s Cemetery Project project were connected to the first AND second #Parramatta #FemaleFactory. Access their stories via stjohnsonline.org/rogues #twitterstorians #crimehistory #OzHist