Captain Joseph Wakefield, soldier and penal administrator, of the 39th Regiment was the acting commandant of the second

convict settlement A penal colony or exile colony is a Human settlement, settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colony, colonial territory. Although the ter ...

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, from November 1828 to 29 June 1829. By this time there were about 200

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s on the island. Several buildings had been constructed of locally produced timber, stone, shingles and lime, including a prisoners' barracks, three-storey barracks for troops, quarters for civil officers and a military hospital. The remains of some of these buildings can still be seen at

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. Wakefield was soon replaced by the man who had sought the commandant's position since 1825,

James Morisset Lieutenant Colonel James Thomas Morisset (1780Baptised 21 August 1780 in the Church of St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, London, the son of James Morisset (1738–1815) and Jannetta Tadwell. His father, James Morisset, was a famous goldsmith of Hu ...

References

* Hazzard, Margaret, ''Punishment Short of Death: a history of the penal settlement at Norfolk Island'', Melbourne, Hyland, 1984. ()

External links

Colonial Secretary's papers 1822-1877

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- includes digitised letters written by Wakefield to the

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