Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 121
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Description book of persons arrested at
headquarters, 6 Jan 1858–10 Mar 1862
The volume records name, charge, by whom
apprehended, physical description and may also
record where committed for trial and sentence.
Many of those listed were tried at the Quarter
Sessions. There is an index in the front of the
volume.
11.4
NRS 10967
Microfilm copy:
Reel 3041,
[4/5722]
Benches of Magistrates (later Courts of Petty
Sessions)
Colonial Secretary's
records
Special bundles
NRS 898
Returns of convicts tried before Magistrates
at:
Microfilm copy:
Reels 660, 6023
[4/6671] *ARK
Appin, 26 Jul 1823–30 Sep 1824
Bathurst, Dec 1823–Dec 1824
Campbelltown, 30 Jun–31 Dec 1824
Liverpool, 24 Jun–24 Dec 1824
Penrith, 1824
Sydney Police Office, Jul–Dec 1824
Westmoreland, Dec 1823–Dec 1824
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Police reports of prisoners tried, 1827–33
Returns of summonses issued and prisoners tried
recording name, offence and punishment. Later
reports also show ship and to whom assigned.
Dates
Item
Reel
Bathurst
Place
Dec 1829
[X826 p.1]
661
Hyde Park Barracks
Jan–Jul 1832
[X825]
661
Hyde Park Barracks
13-18 Feb 1832
[2/8284 pp.121-26]
2756
Parramatta
Dec 1829
[X826 p.3]
661
Penrith
Jan–Nov 1833
[X826 p.33]
661
Sydney
16 Jan 1827, Feb, Jul–Sep1828
[X821]
660
Sydney
Mar, Apr 1830
[X822]
661
Sydney
Jan, Mar–May 1831
[X823]
661
Sydney
Apr 1833
[X824]
661
Windsor
12–17 Aug 1833
[X826 p.129]
661
Wollongong
Jan–May 1833
[X826 p.133]
661
Monthly returns of summary trials of
convicts before Benches of Magistrates, Aug
1832–Dec 1836
The returns provide details of the date and place
of trial; the legal punishments for the various
offences; the name of the accused, ship and year
of arrival, original sentence, and by whom
employed; name of accuser; charge; acquittal or
punishment ordered and details of corporal
punishment inflicted (number of lashes, in whose
presence, remarks).
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State Records Authority of New South Wales