Oct 7, 2008

Convict Records

TASMANIA


Convicts were transported to Tasmania from 1803-1853 from the British Isles 
and from British colonies, including the Australian colonies of New South Wales 
and Norfolk Island.

The resources listed in the first table are available in Hobart at the Archives Office of 
Tasmania, and in Launceston at the Launceston Reference Library. 

see     Tasmanian convicts the complete list from the original records

  • an index to the convict  records kept in the Archives Office of Tasmania.
  • the full records are available in the Archives Office of Tasmania and in Launceston at the Launceston Reference Library
  • the index is available on CDROM in each city library and online at http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/nameindexes

TIITLE

SUBJECT

YEARS

Convict arrivals indexes

List of convicts transported to VDL

1803-1853

Indents

Information compiled about convicts before disembarked in Australia

1827-1853

Assignment lists

Details of where convicts were assigned to work

1810-1852

Description lists

Height, age, colour of eyes, tattoos, etc

1828-1853

Appropriation and Employment registers

Record of the trade of convicts and who employed them

1831-1835

Comprehensive registers of convicts

Conditional pardons (CP)

1804-1853


Certificates of freedom (Cert)

1804-1853

Emancipation 

Applications to marry,

1833-1886


Tickets of leave

 


Conditional & absolute pardons

 


Remission of sentence

 

Indulgences or privileges 

To sleep out of barracks

1833-1886


Have wife assigned

 


To marry, etc

 

Conduct registers 

Record of convict behaviour

1803-1893

Death registers

Deaths

1825-1874

Correspondence

Any correspondence relating to convicts

1832-1867

Miscellaneous convict records

Northern Tasmania

1823-1844

 

Macquarie Harbour

1829-1833

 

Tasman Peninsula

1834-1871

 

Maria Island

1846

 

Norfolk Island

1792-1796, 1830-1855

 

Prisoners Barracks, Hobart

1834-1860

 

Female House of Correction, Hobart

1833-1834, 1847-1890

 

Van Diemens Land court records

1832-1889

 

NEW SOUTH WALES

Listed below are the contents of the Archives Resources Kit (ARK) from the State Records
Office New South Wales relating to Convicts. 

The Archives Resources Kit is held in the Family History centre in the State Reference
 Library on Level 2.   

It is necessary to use the guide "Using the Archives Resources Kit"  to find the information 
in the kit.  The guide is available in the Family History centre in State Reference Library and 
in each city library.

TITLE

SUBJECT

YEARS

Convict arrivals

 
See also   Index to Convicts who arrived in NSW 1788-1842   compiled by the Genealogical Society of Victoria.. 
                Convicts to NSW 1788-1812  compiled and edited by Carol Baxter    (CDROM)     

Indexes and indents - by convict and by ship

 

 

 

Indexes -  by name, crime, place of trial, occupation and ship

 

1788-1842

 

 

 

 

1788-1812

Musters and other papers relating to convict ships

Lists of convicts on ships

 

1790-1849

Convict assignment registers

Details of assignments

24Dec1821-17Jan1825

 

Registers of Tickets of Leave

List of names with some details

29Jul 1824 - 8Mar 1827

 

Ticket of Leave Butts

Lists of names with some details

31Mar 1827 - 20Aug 1867

 

Register of Conditional Pardons

List of names with some details

16Dec 1791-6Dec 1825

 

Registers of convicts recommended for Conditional Pardons

List of names with some details

6May 1826 - 30Jun 1856

 

Registers of Absolute Pardons

List of names with some details

16Dec 1791 - 1Jul 1843

 

Registers of recommendations for Absolute Pardons

List of names with some details

6May 1826 - 1846

 

Registers of convicts' applications to marry

List of names with some details

1825-1851

 

Convict Death register

List of names with some details

1828-1879

 

The Colonial Secretary's Papers

Index plus Correspondence and  surviving papers of the Colonial Secretary

1788-1825

 

The resources listed below are available in the State Library of Tasmania reference, heritage, 
city and branch libraries as indicated in the Location column.   See also Census and Musters

TITLE

SUBJECT

YEARS

FORMAT

LOCATION
Abbreviations used in convict records of Van Diemens Land and New South Wales (Genealogical Society of Victoria) Abbreviations and meanings   Paper H, T
Convict records in Australia (Num) Convict records in Australia Paper H, L, B, D, G, K
Convict records of Van Diemen's Land (Ring) Interpretation and explanation of abbreviations Paper H, L, T, B, G, R
Criminal ancestors : a guide to historical criminal records in England and Wales (Hawkings) Guide to locating records   Paper H, L
Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to convicts and convict administration (State Records Authority of New South Wales)  Guide to locating records    Paper  H, B, D, R
A guide to tracing convict free settlers and family history (McClelland) Guide to locating records   Paper H, L, B, D, G, *
How to trace your convict ancestors : their lives, times and records  (Reakes) Guide to locating records   Paper H, L, T, B, D, *
Transcribing Tasmanian convict records (Hood) How to interpret convict records   Paper H, L, T, B, D, G, K, R, *
The last farewell : Devon convicts transported to Australia Name List and History of transportation from Devon. 1782-1821 Paper H, L
A bibliography of the First Fleet (Crittenden) List of books and articles 1787- Paper H

The Founders of Australia : a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet (Gillen)

Name list with biographical details

1787-

Paper

H, L, T, B, G

First Fleet families (Donohoe)

Name list

1787 -

Microfiche

Paper

H

L, T, B, D, G, K, R, *

First Fleet families of Australia (Smee)

Name list with biographical details

1787 -

Paper

H, T, L, B, D

Convict ships, 1787-1868 (Bateson)

Name list with details

1787-1868 -

Paper

H, T, L, B, D, G, R
Crimes of the First Fleet convicts   (Cobley) Name list with details 1788 Paper H, T, L, B, K, R, *
Index to convicts who arrived in NSW, 1788-1842 and an index to the ships that transported them  (Genealogical Society of Victoria) Name list 1788-1842 Microfiche H

Archives relating to the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia (National Archives of Ireland)

Irish transportation records

1788-1868

CDROM 

+ Microfilm

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/

H

James McClelland's Index no. 3 to all readable names of convicts and free persons arriving in Australia

Name list

1788-1793

Paper

H, L, D,G

Lincolnshire convicts to Australia, Bermuda and Gibralter (Anderson)

Name list
 
 

 

1788-1840

Paper

L, G, R
Port Jackson convicts 2 vols  (Uebel) Name list 1788-1842 Paper H
Crimes of the Lady Juliana convicts, 1790 Name list with details of crime 1790 Paper H, L, G, *
The Women of the 1790 Neptune (Needham) Name list and family information 1790 Paper H

Second Fleet (Flynn)

Name list and family information

1790

Paper

H, L, B, D

Second Fleet convicts (Ryan)

Name list

1790

Paper

H,L,B,D, *

Second Fleet families (Smee)

Name list and family information

1790-

Paper

H,L,T,B,D,R

Third Fleet Convicts: an alphabetical listing of names giving place and date of conviction … (Ryan)

Name list 

1791

Paper

H, L, B, D, G, R, *

Third Fleet families of Australia (Smee)

Name list and family information

1791 -

Paper

H, T, L, B, D, R

Convicts and exiles transported from Ireland, 1791-1820 (Donohoe)

Name list

1791-1820

Microfiche

Paper

H, L, T, D

From places now forgotten : an index of convicts whose places of trial were outside the UK & Ireland (Jones)

Name list

1791 -1853

Paper

H,L,T

Fourth Fleet families

Name list with biographical details

1792 -

Paper

H, L, T, B, D, G, K, R, *
A nimble fingered tribe : the convicts of the Sugar Cane, Ireland to Botany Bay, 1793 Name lists 1793 Paper H, T, B, D, *

Readable Names of all convicts and free persons, not naval or military arriving Australia. (McClelland)

Name lists

1794-1800

1806-1810

Paper

H, D

H, L, D
A desperate set of villains : the convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis, Ireland to Botany Bay, 1796 (Hall) Name list with biographical details 1796 Paper H, T, L, G, K, R,  *

James McClelland's Index no. 1 to all readable names of convicts and free persons arriving Australia

Name list

1801-1805

Paper

H, L, D
Tasmanian convicts the complete list from the original records (Archives Office of Tasmania) Name list with references to fuller records 1803-1853 CDROM H, L, B, D, K, R

Convicts unbound : the story of the Calcutta convicts and their settlement in Australia (Tipping)

Name list with details

1803-

Paper

H, L, T, B, D, G, K, R, *

Notorious strumpets and dangerous girls : convict women in Van Diemen's Land (Tardif)

Name list with details

1803-1829

Paper

H, L, T, B, D, G, K, R, *
Convicts of the Port Phillip district (Clarke) Name list with details 1803-1849 Paper H, T, L, G

Exiled three times over : profiles of Norfolk Islanders exiled in Van Diemen's Land, 1807-1813 (Schaffer & McKay)

Name list with details

1807-1813

Paper

H, L, T, B, D, G, K, R, *

Norfolk Island embarkations to Van Diemen's Land (Schaffer)

 

Name list

1807-1813

Paper

T
Lady Juliana convict women who vame to Van Diemen's Land from Norfolk Island 1807-1813  Name List 

1807-1813

 Paper  H, L, T 

Index to more Tasmanian convict records : shipping lists from papers re convict ships 1814-1845 (Birtles)

Name lists from shipping records

1814-1845

Microfiche

L, D, K
Journey to a new life : the story of the ships Emu 1812 and Broxbornebury in 1814 (Hook) Includes crew, female convicts and free passengers 1812,1814 Paper H

Tasmanian Colonial Index (Blessington)

Tasmania
Norfolk Island

1816-1889
1792-1885

Microfiche

H, L, B, D, G, K, R
Index to colonial convict movements (Genealogical Society of Victoria) Tasmania Victoria             N. S. W.       Queensland 1827-1853 CD-ROM H
Convict applications to bring out families to Van Diemen's Land (also NSW, Vic, WA) (Mesecke) Name list 1827-1873 Paper H, L, T, B, D, G, R
Convicts & employers (NSW) index  1828, 1832-1833, Jan 1838- Jan 1844  (Stemp) Name list with details 1828, 1832-33, 1838-44 Microfiche H, L

Campbell Town, Tasmania, Convict Department - list of prisoners (State Library of NSW)

Name list with details

1832-1854

Microfilm

L
Maids, masters and magistrates : twenty women of the convict ship New Grove (Hyland)  

Name list with details

 1834-1838  Paper H, T, L, B, G, * 

Miscellaneous Convict records including convicts on the Norfolk, 1835, Norfolk Island convict returns 1846-1853, and miscellaneous Tasmanian convict returns 1845-1870 (State Library of NSW)

Miscellaneous name lists

1835 1846-1853 1845-1870

Microfilm

L
Dictionary of Western Australians. Vol. X. Far from home, Aboriginal prisoners of Rottnest Island 1838-1931 (Green) Name list with details 1838-1931 paper H

Unnamed Irish boys on convict ships 1841-1843, sent to Queen's Orphanage (Purtscher)

Name list with details

1841-1843

Paper

L, T
A Drift of 'Derwent Ducks' : lives of the 200 female Irish convicts transported ... 1849 (Cowley)  

Name list with details

  1849  Paper H, T, L, B, G, *

Tasmania - ticket of leave register 1845-1857 (State Library of NSW)

Name list

1845-1857

Microfilm

L
Uncollected convict pardons (Sheldon)  Name list published in the SMH June 1850  1850  Paper H 
Convict records of Western Australia : a research guide (O'Mara) Name list with other details 1850-1868 Paper H, L
Dictionary of Western Australians. Vol. IX. Convicts in Western Australia 1850-1887 Name list with details 1850-1887 Paper H

Victorian prisoners index, c1850-1900 (Male) (Button)

Name list

1850-1900

Paper

H, D

Victorian prisoners index (females) 1855-1918 (Button)

Name list

1855-1918

Paper

H, D