Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 162
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
13.4
Cockatoo Island Penal Establishment
Colonial Secretary's
records
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Returns of the convict establishment at
Cockatoo Island, 1843–56
Microfilm copy:
Reel 606,
[4/7325]
Returns of prisoners under sentence of
transportation at Cockatoo Island, 1844–48
The returns note name, ship and year of arrival,
whether first or second conviction, details of
colonial conviction, Governor's decision and gaol.
Dates
Item
Reel
Oct 1844–Feb 1845, Apr 1845–Jan 1847, Sep 1847
[X747]
2720
Oct 1847–Mar 1848, May–Jul, Sep, Oct, Dec 1848
[X748]
2720
Monthly reports of the Visiting Magistrate,
often including returns of prisoners, 1849–
55, 1865–66
Dates
Item
Reel
1849–53
[4/1149.3]
608
1851–55
[4/1156]
609
1856–58
[4/719.1]
609
Apr 1859
[4/1162.1]
610
1859–61
[4/752]
610
Dec 1861–Jun, Sep 1862–Dec 1864
[4/739]
611
1865; Jan, Jun 1866
[4/753.1]
611
Feb-Apr, Jul-Aug 1866
[4/756]
Task work regulations for convicts at
Cockatoo Island, Mar 1853
[X64]
These are regulations and schedules setting out
payment for task work performed by convicts at
Cockatoo Island.
Papers re 1849 Inquiry and reports on
administration at Cockatoo Island, 1849–57
[4/1161]
Report of inquiries into management at
Cockatoo Island, 1856–58
[4/723]
Cockatoo Island – administration of the
penal establishment and prison discipline,
1860–64
[4/747.1]
Copies of letters to officers of the Royal
Engineers and the Superintendent of
Cockatoo Island, 7 Jan 1840–19 Aug 1846
NRS 996
Copies of letters principally to the Commanding
Royal Engineer and other officers on engineering
works. From 1842 letters are also addressed to
the Superintendent of Cockatoo Island and from
1844 to the Newcastle Stockade.
Corrective Services'
records
Cockatoo Island Penal Establishment,
Copies of letters sent, 1841–54, May 1859–
1865, and letters received, 1841–May 1843
State Records Authority of New South Wales
Microfilm copy:
Reel 3012,
[4/3891]
NRS 2079, 2078
Microfilm copy:
Reels 605-6,
[4/6514-18]
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