Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 135
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Dates
Item
Reel
1788–1808
[5/1143]
2752
1809, 1812–1813
[5/1144A]
2752
1814–1815
[5/1144B]
2752
1816–1824
[SZ808]
1984
Informations, depositions and related
papers, 1796–1824
NRS 2703
Each indictment or deposition shows name of
defendant, nature of crime or misdemeanour
with which the defendant has been charged,
names of private parties prosecuting (where
applicable), defendant's plea, and occasionally
names of Crown witnesses and date of trial.
Affidavits and informations may also be included.
For a detailed listing of these papers see the
unpublished inventory.
From 1812 it was the custom to attach the
indictments to the precepts summoning the
Court: further informations and indictments are
therefore in NRS 2701 and listed in detail in the
unpublished inventory.
Dates
Item
1796–1812
[5/1145-46]
Photocopy
Reel
1816
[SZ776A, B, C]
COD 405A, B
1817
[SZ777-80]
COD 437-40
1818
[SZ781-85]
COD 441-45
1819
[SZ786-89]
COD 446-49
1820
[SZ790-92]
COD 450-52C
1821
[SZ793-94]
1975
1822
[SZ795-800]
1976-78
1823
[SZ801-02]
1979-80
1824
[SZ803]
1981
2392
Miscellaneous criminal papers, 1788–91,
1798–1800, 1802, 1805, 1807–16
Papers include statements and depositions of
witnesses; recognizances to appear and bail
bonds; warrants to Provost Marshal to carry out
sentences; prisoners' defences; petitions for
mercy and for mitigation of sentences. There are
also the prosecution and defence statements and
exhibits in Rex v Garnham Blaxcell and others on
the prosecution of Simeon Lord for breach of
contract and conspiracy on the ship General
Wellesley.
1984 [SZ776C]
NRS 2702
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2392,
[5/1152]
A detailed list of these papers is available in
State Records' reading rooms.
Returns of prisoners tried, 10 Nov 1812–
31 May 1813; Oct 1816–Feb 1824
The returns record date when tried, prisoners'
names, charges, pleas, verdict and sentence.
132
NRS 2074
Microfilm copy:
Reels 2393, 2652,
[2/8327; X725]
State Records Authority of New South Wales