Norfolk Island Brutus 1825 Shipping list

Footsteps in Time: Norfolk Island Hell on Earth: Between 1825 and 1855, Norfolk Island was a penal settlement , where around 6000 reoffending male convicts, including some female convicts, were sent.

Convicts of the Brutus to Norfolk Island, June 1825
Historian Cathy Dunn has identified the male convicts, convict wives and children who arrived on Norfolk Island per the Brutus in June 1825, for the island’s resettlement. As there is no shipping muster, a vast range of other primary record were examined and analysed to extract the convict shipping list for the Brutus of June 1825. More details and open access dataset of the shipping list for the Brutus June 1825.

Norfolk Island Penal settlement Tour June 2025: A unique Tour in June 2025 as part of the Norfolk Island Second Settlement 200th Anniversary with the stories of Norfolk Island’s penal settlement 1825 to 1855.