Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 158
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Description book (colonial transportees),
30 Dec 1840–1848
NRS 2524
The volume records gaol number, prisoner's
name, ship and year of arrival, year of birth and
physical description.
Sheriff's records
Microfilm copy:
Reel 855,
[4/6297]
Rules for Sydney Gaol and Phoenix Hulk,
c.1830
NRS 13235,
[5/1199]
Miscellaneous returns, 1836–41
NRS 13236
Memoranda of stores and provisions received
Microfilm copy:
Reels 687, 708,
[4/6271 part]
Lists of men in irons from Norfolk Island and
Moreton Bay, 1839–40
List of prisoners discharged to Country Iron'd
Gangs, Jun 1840–Jan 1841
List of prisoners from Norfolk Island for
commutation of sentence, 1840–41
Salary abstracts, Sep 1836–Jan 1848
Abstracts of the salaries of the iron'd gangs, 2
class convicts and detached parties stationed at
Carters' Barracks, Woolloomooloo, Goat Island
and Grose Farm, 1 Sep 1836–30 Sep 1837;
Woolloomooloo and Carters Barracks, Oct 1837–
Jan 1844; and Woolloomooloo, Feb 1844–Jan
1848.
nd
NRS 13237,
[4/6272]
They provide details of station, situation, name,
condition, period covered and amount.
Printed Sources
12.9
Report and Minutes of Evidence of Select
Committee on Darlinghurst Gaol in Legislative
Council: Votes and Proceedings, 1849 vol.2
Windsor Gaol
See Plan of Windsor Gaol, 1837 Blue Book, 1837, NRS 1286; Reel 5,
Fiche 474 [4/269] *ARK
Colonial Secretary's
records
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Weekly transcripts of entrance book, 1838
Microfilm copy:
Reel 904, [X42.2]
The transcripts provide details of the prisoner's
name, ship and year of arrival, situation (free or
bond) on arrival in the colony and on entering
gaol, native place, religion, trade or calling, when
and from whence admitted to the gaol, crime
committed, sentence and date of sentence and
behaviour in gaol.
Weekly transcripts of description book,
1838
Microfilm copy:
Reel 904, [X42.1]
Completed printed forms containing details of
prisoners entering gaol: name, ship and year of
arrival, year of birth, physical description and
history.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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