The Rest of Your Natural Life
Thu 08 Oct
|Masonic Rooms
Stories of Suffolk convicts, sentenced to transportation to Australia during the period 1787-1867. Find out not only what happened to them, but also to the families they left behind.
Time & Location
08 Oct 2026, 14:00
Masonic Rooms, Off Redenhall Road, Harleston IP20 9EN
About the event
Overall, more than 162,000 convicts were transported from Britain to Australia. The convicts were transported as punishment for crimes committed at home. In Australia their lives were hard as they helped build the young colony. When they had served their sentences, most stayed on and some became successful settlers.
This is a presentation by Pip Wright, a retired Primary School Teacher, living in Stowmarket in Suffolk. Pip writes local history books and give talks to groups of all kinds and all ages across East Anglia. He has spent a number of years gathering information on local social history.