Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 167
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
number and date returned. There is an index to
the convicts in front of the volume.
Courts of Petty
Sessions' records
Proceedings before the Bench of
Magistrates, Melville Island – Examinations
of prisoners, 15 Dec 1827–6 Mar 1829
This bundle records name, charge and date.
13.8
NRS 3136
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2801,
[4/2772.4]
Newcastle Penal Settlement
Colonial Secretary's
records
Special bundles, 1794–1825
NRS 898
Monthly returns of punishments, Dec 1810–
Oct 1825
Microfilm copy:
Reels 689, 6023,
[4/1718] *ARK
The returns show for each punishment the name
of the individual, the ship in which transported,
master's name, number of lashes ordered and by
whom, number of lashes inflicted and the
offence.
Includes a list of prisoners permitted to return to
Sydney from Newcastle, 20 Aug 1822.
Letters received, 1788–1826
NRS 897
Letters received by the Colonial Secretary
from Newcastle, 1804–1826
Microfilm copy:
Reels 2185-87,
2190, 6066-6068,
[4/1804-13] *ARK
to 1825
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Returns of births, deaths and marriages, Jul
1818–1825, burials 1828
Microfilm copy:
Reel 693, 6025,
[2/8303] *ARK to
1825
Returns of prisoners received and
discharged at Newcastle, 18 Feb–24 Mar
1827
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2278,
[2/8319 pp.3552]
Return of convicts tried before the Bench of
Magistrates, Jan, Jul 1835, Feb–Sep 1836
Microfilm copy:
Reel 662, [X708
pp.112-128]
Copies of letters sent to Van Diemen's Land,
Newcastle and Norfolk Island, 6 Jan 1810–
16 Dec 1813
NRS 936
Other copies available as follows: of [4/3490A],
microfilm copy Reel 2288, photocopy (Sydney
Records Centre) COD 223A; of [4/3492],
microfilm copies Reels 898 and 764.
[4/3490A,
4/3492; Reel
6003] *ARK
Copies of letters written by the Governor and his
Secretary to officials and individuals usually
residing at, or intending to go to, these places.
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