Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 41
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Surveyor General's
records
2.5
Road gang reports, 1827–30
NRS 13792
Reports, usually monthly, of the various road
gangs, detailing place stationed and overseer;
and for each convict, his number, name, ship,
job, casualties, discharge etc. There are also
weekly reports of road parties and iron'd gangs
under the direction of the Surveyor General,
1830.
Microfilm copy:
Reel 590,
[9/2689]
Register of prisoners employed and of
government stock at the Government Stock
Station, Mulgoa, 1834
NRS 13946
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2652,
[4/8367]
Records of runaways and absconding assigned
servants
Search the Colonial Secretary's Index, 1788-1825 which is available on
State Records' website using terms such as absconding, escape and
runaways.
NSW Government Gazettes
English newspaper Hue and Cry and Police Gazette includes lists of
escaped convicts. See description in Chapter 1: Printed sources.
Colonial Secretary's
records
Special bundles, 1794–1825
NRS 898
Miscellaneous convict returns — Return of
convict absentees from Emu Plains,
apprehended in different districts and sent
to Port Macquarie, 1 Apr 1822–31 Mar 1823
Microfilm copy:
Reels 593, 695,
6028*, [2/8283
p.141] *ARK
Letters received, 1826–1982
NRS 905
Nominal list of convicts who are supposed
to have escaped from the colony in 1825
CSIL 26/885 in
[4/1883]
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Bathurst – Returns of runaways, Jan–Jul
1826
Microfilm copy:
Reels 593, 599,
[4/1916.2]
Weekly returns of runaways absconded and
apprehended at Parramatta, 9 Jul–9 Aug
1827
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2278,
[2/8319 pp.1923]
Rewards for the capture of bushrangers,
runaways etc., 1831–42
[4/1133.1]
Includes papers laid before the Executive Council
in 1835 re rewards for the apprehension of
runaways, 1833.
Papers re runaway convicts from Port
Phillip in South Australia, 1840
38
Microfilm copy:
Reel 828,
[4/7103]
State Records Authority of New South Wales