Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 164
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
period, or periods, of imprisonment including
dates of entrance and discharge, punishments,
issue or cancellation of tickets of leave and
death.
Principal
Superintendent of
Convicts' records
Visitors' book, 4 Sep 1851–31 Dec 1864
NRS 2089
Microfilm copy:
Reel 611,
[7/3713]
General index to convicts, 1834–44
NRS 12216
Microfilm copy:
Reel 605,
[4/4540]
The volume indexes prisoners on the island,
providing details of name and ship of arrival,
when tried, offence, sentence, when discharged
and any observations.
This volume is arranged alphabetically by letter
and records: name; ship; religion; original
sentence; colonial conviction – when tried,
sentence, commuted sentence; received – date,
from whence; discharged – date, where to; and
remarks.
Printed Sources
13.5
Board of inquiry into Cockatoo Island 1857. (Votes and Proceedings of
Legislative Assembly, 1858 Vol.2 p.243)
Fort Wellington (Raffles Bay) Settlement
The settlement was established 18 June 1827 and was abandoned in
August 1829. It suffered the usual problems of the early northern
settlements such as difficulties in supplying provisions, 'unhealthy'
climate and disappointing trading opportunities with the Malays. (HRA
Vol. 14, pp.410-411).
Colonial Secretary's
records
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Settlements at Raffles Bay and on Meville
Island, 1826–30
[4/1967.3]
Fort Wellington, Raffles Bay settlement
(returns, lists etc.), 1827–30
Microfilm copy:
Reel 703,
[4/2060.2]
Return of public labour at Fort Wellington,
Raffles Bay, 1 Jun–18 Jul 1829
Microfilm copy:
Reel 3035,
[4/10799.2
formerly in
4/2065 pp.1-42]
Copies of letters sent to Fort Wellington,
19 May 1827–23 Jul 1829
NRS 972
There is an index in front of the volume.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
Microfilm copy:
Reel 703,
[4/3731]
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