[1] Female convicts were held there awaiting hire as probation pass holders from February 1842.
[2] Prior to 1844, the Brickfields was used as a place of confinement and punishment just as the Female Factories were.
This meant that female convicts did not have to return to the Anson for a short period of time while they waited to be re-hired.
It was not a Gaol or a Female Factory, but simply a depot for women serving probation.
[3] After its closure in November 1852, Brickfields became an immigration depot and later a pauper establishment.