State Archives Collection

The majority of women convicts were engaged in the manufacture of wool and linen at the Female Factory. A smaller number were employed as hospital nurses and midwives, as servants to officers, and in caring for orphans

This index covers 1819–1829 and lists all women sentenced by the Sydney Court to time in the Parramatta Female Factory. There are c.2500 entries

Join social history curator and writer Gay Hendriksen and Emily Hanna for a conversation about the history of the Female Factory and the records that tell their stories