1846: Jackey Jackey: the Bushranger Hanged on Norfolk Island for the Cooking Pot Uprising
William Westwood was already notorious as Jackey Jackey, a bushranger transported twice and flogged repeatedly, when he helped lead the 1846 Cooking Pot Uprising on Norfolk Island, a desperate convict revolt sparked by brutal rations and treatment. In the chaos, three constables and an overseer were killed.
He was 26 when he was hanged on 13 October 1846, one of the largest mass executions in Australian penal history.
