First juvenile migration scheme to Western Australia (1842 - 1851)

From

27 August 1842

To

1851

Location

Western Australia

The first formal scheme of unaccompanied child migration to Western Australia occurred with the arrival of its first convicts. These convicts were juvenile offenders from Parkhurst Prison in England. In a nine year period from 1842, boys and young men (aged 12 to 21 years) were brought in to provide a source of cheap labour for settlers in the Colony.