Some Aspects of Colonial Marriage: a Case Study of the Swing Protesters

Labour History

Volumn , Issue 74, 1998, Pages 40-53

  Kent, David ^a   Townsend, Norma ^a  

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EID: 85172475936     PISSN: 00236942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/27516552     Document Type: Article

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1. 'Convict Courtship', Families in Colonial Australia, P. Grimshaw, C. McConville, E. McEwen (eds), George Allen and Unwin, North Sydney, 1985, pp. 19-31.
2. For an account of the protests in Hampshire, see David Kent, Popular Radicalism and the Swing Riots in Central Hampshire, Hampshire County Council, Winchester, 1997.
3. Charles H. Curry, The Law of Marriage and Divorce in New South Wales (1788-1850)', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Journal, vol. 41, part 3,1955, pp. 97-98.
4. Section 18, 'Nothing in this Act contained ... shall extend to any marriages solemnised beyond the seas'. See D. Lemmings, 'Marriage and the Law in the Eighteenth Century: Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753*, The Historical Journal, vol. 39, no. 2,1996, pp. 339-360.
5. David Kent and Norma Townsend, (eds), Joseph Mason Assigned Convict, 1831-1837: 'Doomed ...to the earth's remotest region', Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, p. 39.
6. See Document 11, 'John Brunker and Mary Ann McGreevy, Port Macquarie', The Push from the Bush; A Bulletin of Social History: Devoted to the Year of Grace, 1838, no. 2, November 1978, p. 67-74.
7. Lloyd L. Robson, The Convict Settlers of Australia: An Enquiry into the Origin and Character of the Convicts transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1965, p. 183.
8. Chambers, Rebels of the Fields: Robert Mason and the Convicts of the Eleanor, 4 Quills, Letchworth, 1995, especially the entry for Gifford North, pp. 233-234.
9. See, for example, O. Chadwick, The Victorian Church, Adam and Charles Black, London, 1970, pp. 70-71.
10. Elizabeth Fry to Samuel Marsden, 23 May 1832, quoted by Babette Smith, Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and Convicts of the Princess Royal, NSW University Press, Sydney, 1988, p. 68.
11. Alan G. L. Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies: A Study of Penal Transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other parts of the British Empire, Faber and Faber, London, 1966, p. 183.
12. Instructions from Governor Macquarie to the Reverend Messrs P. Connolly and J. J. Therry, Roman Catholic Chaplains, 14 October 1820, reprinted Sydney Gazette, 23 September 1836. Darling to Bathurst, 6 September 1826, Extract from Minute no. 16, Historical Records of Australia [hereafter HRA], Series 1, vol. Xll, pp. 546-547.
13. Michael Belcher, The Child in New South Wales Society: 1820-1837', PhD, University of New England, Armidale, 1982, p. 173.
14. Belcher, The Child in New South Wales', pp. 145-155.
15. Atkinson in Grimshaw, Families in Colonial Australia, p. 24.
16. Aveling, 'She only married to be Free, or Cleopatra vindicated', The Push from the Bush; A Bulletin of Social History: Devoted to the Year of Grace, 1838, no. 2, November 1978, pp.116-124.
17. Chambers, Rebels of the Fields, p.172.
18. Atkinson in Grimshaw, Family in Colonial Australia, p. 26.
19. Robson, Convict Settlers, pp. 141-142.
20. Belcher, The Child in New South Wales', p. 123.
21. Joy Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Society, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1997, p. 156.
22. Edgar A. Wrigley and Richard S. Schofield, The Population History of England, 1541-1871: A Reconstruction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, pp. 257-265.
23. Belcher, 'The Child in New South Wales', pp. 160.
24. Kent and Townsend, Joseph Mason, p. 6.
25. Kent and Townsend, Joseph Mason, pp 6-9.
26. Although John B. Hirst, Convict society and its enemies; A history of early New South Wales, George Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1983, pp. 57-58
27. Belcher, The Child in New South Wales', p.160.