Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 114
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Muster of all females in the colony, Aug
1806
The muster is arranged alphabetically and shows
ship, name, where married, number of male and
female legitimate and illegitimate children, and if
came free or not.
Mitchell Library
ML Mss 18;
photocopy at
COD 3 (Sydney
Records Centre)
and COD 472
(printed Western
Sydney Records
Centre)
Alphabetical return of all convicts deceased
in New South Wales, as far as was known to
the Principal Superintendent of Convicts,
1829, 1833, 1834
Mitchell Library
PRO Reel 1541
HO7/2 pp.39, 47,
114, 122, 155
The returns include convicts who were executed
or murdered as well as those who died from
other causes, and note name, ship of arrival,
age, date of burial, district or parish, and
remarks as to cause or status.
10.4
Executions
Colonial Secretary's
records
Register of death warrants, 16 Aug 1821–
24 Feb 1824
The volume records date of warrant, name, when
and where tried, offence and date of execution.
In some cases it is noted that the prisoner was
not executed but sent to Port Macquarie for life.
There is an index in front of the volume.
Microfilm copy:
Reels 687, 696,
6070; Photocopy
at COD 222,
[4/1265] *ARK
Letters received, 1826–1982
NRS 905
List of all prisoners executed in 1828
CSIL 29/6003 in
[4/2041]
Records name, condition, crime, religion and
date of execution.
Corrective Services'
records
NRS 1184
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
List of prisoners executed at Sydney Gaol,
1 Feb–28 May 1828
Microfilm copy:
Reels 1901, 2800;
Photocopy at
COD 226
[4/2772.2B p.3]
Sydney Gaol — Entrance book for prisoners
sentenced to death, 1831–47
NRS 2423
Sydney Gaol — Entrance books for prisoners
transported from New South Wales, or
sentenced to death, 22 Aug 1837–7 Jun
1847
NRS 2520
Microfilm copy:
Reels 854-855,
[4/6442-44]
Microfilm copy:
Reel 855, [4/6442
part-6444]
The volumes record gaol number, prisoner's
name, ship and year of arrival, native place,
religion, education, trade or calling, physical
description, when admitted, sentence, when and
how disposed of.
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