Link: 1833-37 The London Female Emigration Committee

[Christopher]

Elizabeth Rushen's website www.rushen.com.au contains an alphabetical list of the women who emigrated on the fourteen ships which departed from Gravesend, England as well as Dublin and Cork, Ireland  under the auspices of the London Emigration Committee (LEC), between 1833 and 1837. This was the first scheme for female emigration between Great Britain and the Australian colonies on behalf of the British government. The ships carried approximately 2,700 bounty women to Sydney, Hobart and Launceston.