Voyages Transporting Parkhurst Apprentices To Western Australia
Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas", but pardoned on arrival at their destination on the conditions that they be "apprenticed" to local employers, and that they not return to England during the original term of their sentence. Between 1842 and 1849, Western Australia accepted 234 Parkhurst apprentices, all males aged between 10 and 21. As Western Australia was not then a penal colony, contemporary documents studiously avoided referring to the prisoners as "convicts", and the ships that brought them were not officially recognised as convict ships there. English records were not so reticent, classing as convict ships the seven ships that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.
This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.
| Ship | Arrival | Number of Parkhurst apprentices |
| Simon Taylor | August 1842 | 18 |
| Shepherd | October 1843 | 28 |
| Halifax | December 1844 | 18 |
| Cumberland | January 1846 | 16 |
| Orient | March 1848 | 51 |
| Ameer | February 1849 | 50 |
| 'Mary | October 1849 | 53 |
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