American Visits Infamous Convict Prison In Australia (Port Arthur)

[@SlovenkaAndreaKal]

Very informative. You've put a lot of effort into it. It shows!❤

[@carokat1111]

As a Tasmanian who specialises in convict history, I say well done! Very well researched and interesting. 20% of Australians can trace their ancestry to convicts and in Tasmania it is as high as 70%! I know of nine in my family tree. All transported for petty theft except one, who broke in to his employer's takings and stole a substantial sum. He was offered leniency because he was young.

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

Ohh wow, that's crazy! Also, thanks for kind words. I tried to do as much research before I went.

[@georgiacoombes699]

Extremely well researched & very interesting! To think that such a beautiful place was the site of so much misery & cruelty!

[@Danger_Mouse3619]

Did a great video. Never been down to Tassie but watching your video has been one of the best with Port Arthur I've seen. Good work mate. 😎

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

thank you!

[@robe461]

Very informative and interesting. Thankyou.

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

Thank YOU! Glad you enjoyed!

[@AngelaDike-gj4ip]

Superb video 😊 Thank you!

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

thank YOU!

[@queenslanddiva]

We went on a night tour of the site and that separate prison almost sent me mad - I simply can't imagine what it would have been like to live there, day in and day out. The cruelty of humankind knows no bounds. Great video, thanks

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

thanks for sharing. Yeah, especially alot of the prisoners in the seperate prison were sent there because they were misbehaving in the normal prison---for which they were originally sent there for very small offences by today's standards.

[@blackletter2591]

Britain also sent a lot of Irish 'rebels' (people who objected to the British invasion of Ireland) to Australia. The British attempted to suppress Catholicism in Australia, leading to a longstanding cultural division between Anglo and Scottish migrants and the Catholic population. The Anglo ascendancy didn't feel much of it, but the Catholics knew all about it.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Really heartbreaking and disgustingly vile what they put the prisoners through way back then. And the Port Arthur massacre, that was absolutely heartbreaking. But the Tasmanians now seem like an ok lot lol - just joking, Victorian here. If we can’t pick on Taswegians, we’ll get bored lol 😊💞

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

XD

[@FredPilcher]

Well done! It's great to see a visitor learning about it. What a shame that not every Australian has had the opportunity. When I was a kid (there were dinosaurs in the Earth in those days) a convict ancestry was called "the stain", and was something to be ashamed of. Now, thank the gods, it's a mark of pride. :D I knew three of the people who were slaughtered in the massacre. 😞

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

thank you much! glad you enjoyed it.

[@RobertGreekSpencer]

London to Tasmania is a long trip. How long did it take?

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

not sure. But i think they were transported by boat. Weeks or months long for sure.

[@kutakina]

@@JazzyTravels-bp1pq All were transported on convict hulks, chained together, over crowded not washed, and people dying along the way, my ancestor left England in 15/7/1842 arrived 7/11/1842.

[@madenabyss6981]

Wow very informative video i have done the port Arthur tour my card says that were convicted of stealing umbrellas can't remember how many years they got and i also did the tour of isle of the dead interesting place interesting fact from what i was told there was one book that was banned from the library was how to build boats because someone actually built a boat and tried to escape.

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

much appreciated, thank you. I wanted to do the isle of the dead but only took a boat right past it

[@lindsaybrown7357]

Many of the original buildings of the settlement have been lost to bushfire and demolition.

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

yeah, i read that. Especially the church

[@aerotuc]

Thankyou for showing some early history of Australia.

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

my pleasure. thank you for watching:)

[@EvaPuckova]

Veľmi zaujímavé miesto

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

dakujem:)

[@AbcDef-of3xk]

Imprisoned for stealing a hanker chief? What! San Francisco and Portland could follow that lead!

[@denisegore1884]

The handkerchief would be the end of a long list of criminal offences. It was not his first offence.

[@Richo732]

@@denisegore1884 For a lot of convicts, particularly the Irish, the "real offence" that got them transported was participation in the union, chartist or nationalist movements, or being too close to and supporting others who were. There was a research study undertaken by the Sydney Museum that really highlighted that phenomenon.

[@captmulch1]

There was also a children’s prison there. My ggggrandfather was sent there as a 12 year old. Shameful …

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

Unfortunately, that's one place I didn't visit.

[@julesmarwell8023]

HARD to think that prisoners Built Port Arthur by hand FROM NOTHING. Port Arthur was BRITISH CRUELTY at its best. As an Aust. I would never want to visit Thank you for taking us there. For an American to show much interest and respect IS WONDERFUL TO SEE Thank you Sir

[@JazzyTravels-bp1pq]

Why thank you! Glad you enjoyed!

[@Lower_Class]

Weird that the asylum is still intact that's crazy excuse the pun