Jan Richardson

Jan Richardson is a Queensland historian with a Graduate Diploma in Local, Family and Applied History and a Master of Philosophy from UNE.

Her MPhil thesis examined the lives of female convicts and ex-convicts who arrived in Queensland after the closure of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1839.

Jan is currently a Visiting Fellow at Griffith University’s Harry Gentle Resource Centre and is compiling a biographical and photographic database of ex-convict women and their husbands in Queensland.