Female convicts were transported to Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land) from 1803, when the colony was founded, to 1853, when transportation to Van Diemen's Land ceased.
Some female convicts transported to New South Wales also made their home in Tasmania.
This website is dedicated to all of these women, many of them our ancestors.
Latest News!
The Working Lives of Convict Women seminar was held at 'Runnymede' on 12 May 2012. Some papers from the seminar are available.
Convict Lives at the Ross Female Factory was launched by The Premier of Tasmania, Lara Giddings, on Sunday 6 November 2011.
ORDER Convict Lives at the Ross Female Factory.
We have recently become incorporated and so have changed our name to the Female Convicts Research Centre Inc. We were formerly known as the Female Convicts Research Group (Tasmania) and the Female Factory Research Group.
If you find this website useful, please consider making a donation to our group to keep the website up (and expanding). Contact us to find out how.
This site is regularly updated. Please visit us again. 
Are you a descendant of a Tasmanian female convict? Or are you researching a particular female convict or convicts?
If so, please consider submitting your details and those of your convict(s) to our
Female Convicts in Van Diemen's Land database
using the Submit a Convict form.
Please note that the Female Convicts in Van Diemen's Land database was formerly known as the Female Family Founders Database.
Are you interested in female convicts generally?
Please consider becoming a member by completing the Register as a Member form.
We welcome members from interstate and overseas, as well as those from Tasmania.
As a member, you will have access to the members area of this website and receive emails about our activities and research.