Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 10
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Other convict records
Records
Creating/responsible agency
Assignment (few series have survived)
Colonial Secretary, Principal
Superintendent of Convicts, Surveyor
General
Tickets of exemption from Government
labor
Principal Superintendent of Convicts
Population Musters and Census
Colonial Secretary
Convicts permission to Marry
Colonial Secretary then
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Registers of convicts
applications to marry 1826-51
Principal Superintendent of Convicts
Applications to have wives and families
brought out to New South Wales
Colonial Secretary
Medical records
Colonial Secretary, from 1848 Government
Medical Adviser, Health
(Surgeon's journals recorded on the voyage
out are part of the Australian Joint Copying
Project)
Colonial crime and punishment
- Reports of crime
Few early Police records have survived
- Trial
Benches of Magistrates/Courts of Petty
Sessions, Quarter Sessions, Supreme Court
(depending on the severity), Clerk of the
Peace (depositions), Colonial Secretary
- floggings
Benches of Magistrates/Courts of Petty
Sessions
- Sentence carried out
Sheriff
- Gaol records
Prisons/Corrective Services
- Executions
Sheriff, Prisons/Corrective Services
- Secondary transportation
Colonial Secretary, Sheriff
Penal Establishments
Colonial Secretary
Convict Death Register
From 1828 Principal Superintendent of
Convicts, from 1856 Police, Convict Branch
Departure of former convicts as free people
Few records have survived. For the years
1816-mid 1820s see Colonial Secretary
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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