Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 101
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
9.3
Families of Convicts
Convicts’
applications to have
families brought to
the colony at
Government
expense
Convicts, who had been in the colony for a period and who did not
commit further offences were eligible to apply to have their families
brought out at the expense of the Crown. Applications had to show that
convicts would be able to support their families upon their arrival and
not incur any further expense to the Government. In general, families
were not permitted to reunite in Australia unless the convict applying
had a Ticket of Leave which allowed convicts to work for themselves, to
provide a means for supporting their families.
Colonial Secretary's
records
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Applications for free passages for wives and
children of convicts, 1824–42
*ARK to 1825
Dates
Indexes
Item
Fiche
Reel
1824–27
Index in State Records'
reading rooms Reels 1250-51
[4/1112.1]
3285-88*
697
1828–31
Col. Sec.: Indexes and registers
[4/2097.2]
-
1831–32
Col. Sec.: Indexes and registers
(Also index in State Records'
reading rooms)
[4/2136.2]
2191
1832–34
Col. Sec.: Indexes and registers
[4/2188]
698-99
1834–35
Index in State Records'
reading rooms Reels 1250-51
[4/1111.3]
698
1835–42
Col. Sec.: Indexes and registers
[4/2550.1]
700-01
Petitions from wives of convicts for their
husbands to be assigned to them, 1826–27
Index in State Records' reading rooms Reels
1250-51.
NRS 906
Microfilm copy:
Reel 588,
[4/7084]
Families of convicts arriving and other
papers for the ships Sir Joseph Banks and
Borneo, 1828–29
[4/10798]
Returns of petitions for free passages for
wives and families of convicts, 1828, 1834–
35
Microfilm copy:
Reel 697,
[4/1112.2]
Letters received, 1826–1982
NRS 905
List of Irish passengers arrived on the ship,
Sir Joseph Banks, 8 Oct 1828
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2795;
Photocopy at
COD 394,
[2/8559]
Includes wives and families of convicts
Musters and other papers relating to convict
ships, 1790–1849
NRS 1155
Returns of the families of convicts on
convict ships, and other papers
See Appendix III.
List of convicts who applied for their wives
and families to be sent to New South Wales
at the expense of the government, 1 May
1843
98
NRS 1191
[4/1111.4]
State Records Authority of New South Wales