Bonnet tributes are being made as part of Roses from the Heart(R) for all convict women Transported to Australia. Amongst the 25,566 convict women this Memorial remembers are convict women who spent time in Oatlands, Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.

It you know of any convict women who spent time at Oatlands, or if you are related to any convict women who spent time in Oatlands, please contact Christina Henri, Artist in Residence at the Casacdes Female Factory World Heriatge Site, 16 Degraves Street, South Hobart. 7004

If you would like to ‘adopt’ a convict women who spent time at Oatlands, and make a bonnet tribute for her as part of Roses from the Heart(R) please contact Christina Henri.

If you live in Oatlands and have female convict ancestry Christina would be very pleased to hear would be great to hear from YOU. Your bonnet tribute, a cloth bonnet for your very own ancestor, will be part of a special display of bonnets in Oatlands, as part of the Oatlands Spring Festival on Sunday 16, October, 2011. The bonnet display will be launched by the Premier of Tasmania, the Hon Lara Giddings, MHA.

If you would like to be linked with a convict women to be remembered in this, the first Memorial, to ALL convict women sent to Australia, contact Christina Henri on cjhenri@iinet.net.au

A list of women below are some of those convict women known to have spent time in Oatlands.

Agnes Lander Arrived in VDL aboard the Margaret                19 July 1843

Mary Ann Scace       Arrived in VDL aboard the America                    9 May 1831

Selina Turner           Arrived in VDL aboard the Jane                     22 January 1833

Hannah Evans          Arrived in VDL aboard the William Bryan            4 July 1833

Ann Woodley           Arrived in VDL aboard the William Bryan            4 July 1833

Mary Sandy             Arrived in VDL aboard the William Bryan            4 July 1833

Matilda Bell        Arrived in VDL aboard the Frances Charlotte    10 January 1833

Mary Burns             Arrived in VDL aboard the Jane                          30 June 1833

Sarah Martin           Arrived in VDL aboard the William Bryan             4 July 1833

Elizabeth Lacken/Lacking

                               Arrived in VDL aboard the Mary Ann                19 March 1841

Mary Ann Miller       Arrived aboard the Tory (1)                              25 March 1845

Norah Corbett/Cobbet

                               Arrived aboard the Persian (1)                         5 August 1827

Thanks to Rowena at the Oatlands Court House, Oatlands. Heritage Site.