Ordinary doctors helped sick convicts. Occasionally, a colony's doctor might have taken on a convict as an apprentice, and upon gaining a conditional pardon, the convict might have chosen to continue in that profession.
The convicts were the criminals sent to Australia from England in the 1700s and early 1800s. British prisons were overflowing, and so the decision was made to establish a convict settlement in...
The convicts literally built the colony. They constructed the buildings, roads and bridges and quarried the stone for building as well as cutting down the trees. They established the first farms and...