Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 177
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Miscellaneous returns, 1826
Microfilm copy:
Reel 751,
[4/1917.1]
Nominal return of prisoners at Moreton Bay,
24 Mar 1826, showing their occupations,
employment, ships, colonial sentences,
prisoners in irons, and volunteers.
Monthly returns of convicts received, died,
discharged or run, 25 Dec 1825–24 Sep
1826
Daily meteorological diary, 11 Oct 1825–12
Jun 1826
Monthly return of corporal punishments
inflicted, 25 Feb–24 Mar 1826
Papers re the erection of a hospital at
Moreton Bay
General return of Public Labour performed
by Crown Prisoners, 25 Dec 1825–24 Mar
1826
Return of Tools, Implements, Stores etc.
received, 25 Dec 1825–24 Mar 1826
Returns of the government establishment,
1831, 1833, 1835, 1837–41, 1854
[4/7376]
Returns of births, deaths and marriages,
1835–37
Copies: Reel 2280,
COD 119,
[2/8345]
Copies of letters to Moreton Bay, 27 Aug
1824–5 Aug 1853
NRS 983, *ARK
1824–25
Copies of letters to the Commandant and other
officers in the penal settlement (to 1842), later
letters to the Police Magistrate and other officials
and individuals in the settlement. From Apr 1853
they are addressed to the Government Resident.
The first volume begins with a letter to
Lieutenant H. Miller of the 40th Regiment, dated
27 Aug 1824, notifying him of his appointment
as military Commandant of the settlement to be
established, mainly to replace Port Macquarie as
a penal settlement. The settlement ceased to be
used as a penal station in 1839 but the
correspondence continues on miscellaneous
matters concerning it until Aug 1853.
Following page 272 in the volume for 1824–31 is
a list of convicts transported to Moreton Bay.
This shows for each convict original conviction
including when and where sentenced; trade or
calling; name; the vessel came by; the number
on the folio; whom they replaced or replaced by;
colonial conviction; where, by whom, when
sentenced; ship transported to Moreton Bay by;
date returned; remarks. There is an index to this
list in the front of the volume.
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