Find details of the around 8,500 criminals who were sentenced in Scotland and transported to Australia between 1787-1867 in the Old Scottish Genealogy & Family History Records of Transported Convicts.
"This dataset links the transportation registers (HO11 series, held at the National Archives in London) to the records of the High Court of Justiciary/Circuit Courts in Scotland for the first time. The index on its own contains a lot more biographical and identifying information than is found in the transportation registers." Researchers may be happy just with the index, but they can also order the relevant court papers held in Edinburgh for a cost.
State Records NSW has digitised and indexed the Convict Indents which list the convicts transported to New South Wales from 1788-1800. Early indents provide name, date and place of trial and sentence while the later indents usually include physical description, native place, age and crime.
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This site provides a picture and information on each ship that sailed with the First Fleet. Images have been constructed from written descriptions of the ships. Produced by the First Fleet Fellowship.
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Genealogy SA offers an online database that can be used to search the following databases: Newspaper Birth Notices Index from 1960 onwards Newspaper Death Notices Index from 1972 onwards South Australia Cemeteries Index Birth Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1928 Death Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1972 Marriage Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1937
Although no convicts were transported directly to South Australia from Britain, some convicts were tried in South Australia and transported to other colonies. This alphabetical list provides details of convicts including name, alias, crime, date and length of sentence. Produced by Graham Jaunay.
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The State Library of Victoria has produced a series of information guides to help you care for and conserve your books, newspapers, artworks, paper documents and photographs. These downloadable PDFs cover topics from pests and mould to storage and framing.
Browse the two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s. Click on Login and then Browse Scanned Pages. Based largely on information supplied by each parish church minister, the original (First) Statistical Account and the New (Second) Statistical Account provide a rich record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people. The State Library of NSW also holds the Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1799 on microfiche in the Family History Service.
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The ADM 101 series of journals compiled by Royal Navy surgeons on emigrant and convict ships in the period 1793-1880, are now catalogued and searchable on The National Archives website. Journals can be searched by the name of the ship, surgeon, the patient as well as the disease or ailment. Only a selection of the journals have been digitised. See the list by scrolling down to the bottom of the page. To search for journals that have not been digitised but may have a summary, click on 'The Catalogue' then 'Search the Catalogue' then put in ADM101 in the Department or Series code and put the name of a ship, surgeon or patient in the Word or phrase box. The full journals are also available in the Mitchell Library on open access microfilm (AJCP collection).
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A database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to Western Australia from 1850 to 1868. Includes details such as birth date, crime, where tried, years served, ticket of leave and certificate of freedom dates, and occupation. Searchable by name and ship. Produced by the Fremantle Prison.
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A database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to Western Australia from 1850 to 1868. Includes details such as birth date, crime, where tried, years served, ticket of leave and certificate of freedom dates, and occupation. Searchable by name and ship. Produced by the Fremantle Prison.
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Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society.
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Search an online database which contains records of births, deaths, and marriages held in the Archives Office of Tasmania. It also provides indexes of convicts, census records, wills, divorces and other indexes. Some digitised copies of records are available online, those which are not available online can be obtained from the Archives Office of Tasmania.
This website about the Parramatta Female Factory includes a Search and a Browse facility, where you can browse Convicts, Children, Free People, Deaths, Nicknames and find information from various sources. The website notes that "new content is being added to the website all the time so, while you may not find a particular individual in our database today, check back here regularly as the person may have been added." The Mitchell Library also holds Joan Reese's Index to the Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 on microfiche MAV/FM6/376.
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Search their database to find images of the graves or memorial listings of war dead and particularly those of the Commonwealth since the outbreak of the First World War. The project has photographed over 1.7 million named graves and memorials and have partnered with Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The ongoing project is run by volunteers.
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The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1800 broadsides printed notices for public distribution between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions are covered by these precursors to the modern newspaper.
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TheShipsList website has immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa. No longer a website, removed August 2024. Fortunately, it has been archived on WayBack - TheShipsList: Passengers, Ships, Shipwrecks.
