Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 166
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Establishments'
records
Copies of returns sent by Commandant,
3 Dec 1829–22 Feb 1831
Including Deaths, 3 Dec 1829–12 Feb 1830, 13 Feb–10
Sep 1830
NRS 4207
Microfilm copy:
Reel 712,
[4/4551]
Corporal Punishments, 3 Dec 1829–12 Feb 1830,
13 Feb–10 Sep 1830
Crown prisoners at settlement, 13 Feb–10 Sep
1830
Trials of convicts serving under sentence before
the Bench of Magistrates, 19 Feb 1830–22 Feb
1831
Detailed list of Crown Prisoners, 1 Jan 1830
Names of prisoners recommended weekly by the
overseer for diligence, etc., 8 Oct 1830–11 Feb
1831
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Melville Island (Fort Dundas) Settlement
The settlement was established in 1824 on the north coast of Australia
and abandoned in 1829.
Colonial Secretary's
records
Letters received and Special bundles
NRS 897, 906
Letters received by the Colonial Secretary
from Melville Island, 1823–28
Microfilm copy:
Reels 748, 6066,
[4/1802] *ARK to
1825
Including –
Return of sick prisoners, Nov 1824–Apr 1825
(p.59)
List of convicts who volunteered for Melville
Island and forwarded by the ship Phillip Dundas,
28 Nov 1825 (p.95)
Settlements at Raffles Bay and on Melville
Island, 1826–30
[4/1967.3]
Includes reports on the state of the settlement
by the Commandants, particularly Major
Campbell.
Returns of stores received and issued,
25 Sep–24 Dec 1826
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2867,
[4/1917.9]
Copies of letters sent to Melville Island,
14 Aug 1824–11 Feb 1829
NRS 981
The volume begins with a letter of instructions to
Captain Morris Barlow commanding the military
forces on the expedition to the north west coast
of New Holland. Subsequent letters are
addressed to the commandant and other officers
at the settlement. Includes a List of convicts at
the settlement, 1824–29. The list shows name,
original conviction, calling, vessel transported by,
State Records Authority of New South Wales
Microfilm copy:
Reels 748, 6019,
[4/3792] *ARK to
1825
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