Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 155
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Daily occurrence books, 12 Sep 1826–8 Jul
1830
NRS 2429
Daily journal noting the happenings of the day.
Dates
Item
1 Sep 1826–10 Feb 1828
[4/6277]
14 Feb 1828–8 Jul 1830
[4/6278]
Reel
Weekly state of the Hulk, 1831–35
NRS 2430
These volumes contain numerical returns
showing numbers of: various grades of officials
on the establishment, convicts in hospital, for
trial (various courts), under sentence (state,
destination etc.), detained, government convicts
(at various places), total actually confined,
vacancies, and total capable of being confined.
The volumes also contain reports on general
conduct, number of boats and their condition,
the state of the Hulk, and return of total
prisoners showing increase and decrease.
Microfilm copy:
Reels 822, 2720,
[4/6283 part;
4/6284 part]
[4/6283] was also used as a Discharge book, and
[4/6284] also served as a record of the Monthly
state of the Hulk.
Monthly state of the Hulk, 1 Jan 1834–
1 Nov 1837
Record of number of convicts daily: respited
awaiting H.M. pleasure, awaiting H.E. pleasure,
labour on board, awaiting to be sent to Norfolk
Island, Moreton Bay, Iron'd gangs, witnesses,
further orders, Van Diemen's Land, or those
whose destinations were not fixed.
NRS 2431
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2720,
[4/6284]
Also included are returns of the total
establishment, the floating magazines, and any
increases or decreases.
Sources held
elsewhere
Purchase as Hulk for £1000, 1825 (Mitchell Library A1559-62 p.124)
Report on Hulk, 23 Oct 1826 (Mitchell Library A1197 pp.472 et seq.)
Rules and Regulations, 1829 (Mitchell Library A1204 pp.477, 481, 484506, 526; A1206 p.502)
12.8
Sydney and Darlinghurst Gaols
The prisoners were removed from the Old Sydney Gaol in George Street
to the Darlinghurst Gaol in June 1841
See Plan of Old Sydney Gaol, 1837 Blue Book, 1837, NRS 1286; Reel 5,
Fiche 474 [4/269] *ARK
Colonial Secretary's
records
152
Letters received, 1788–1826
NRS 897
List of prisoners for transportation confined
in H.M. Gaol Sydney, 17 Jan 1826
Microfilm copy:
Reel 890, [4/1790
p.74]
State Records Authority of New South Wales