Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 188
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Alphabetical return of convicts
transported from Norfolk to Van
Diemen’s Land, 1844
Alphabetical return of prisoners under
New or Experimental System at Norfolk
Island on 27 Jan 1844, noting their
disposal in Feb 1844 such as ship to Van
Diemen's Land or death [Tas. Papers
335]
Alphabetical return of doubly convicted
prisoners removed to Van Diemen's Land
by the Lady Franklin, 24 Jan 1844 [Tas.
Papers 335]
Alphabetical returns of prisoners under
New or Experimental System at Norfolk
on 23 Jan 1844, distinguishing between
those who were embarked for Van
Diemen's Land and those who were not
[Tas. Papers 336].
Alphabetical register of convicts
secondarily transported from NSW to
Norfolk Island and remaining there in
Aug 1844
The volume lists the 590 convicts on the
Island before the transfer in control from New
South Wales to Tasmania took place in Sep
1844. Some of the convicts had been sent to
Norfolk as early as 1830.
Mitchell Library
Tasmanian Papers
335-6
Microform copies:
Reel 687, COD 2,
available in State
Records' reading
rooms (Original in
the Archives Office of
Tasmania; copies at
State Records)
Details given are ship of arrival, original
conviction, where, when and sentence, trade
or calling, particulars of colonial conviction,
court, where, when and offence, sentence
and when sent to Norfolk Island.
Papers relating to the convict
establishment on Norfolk Island, 1843–
55
Mitchell Library D113,
copy at State Records
at Reel 2747
Including:
Monthly reports on the state of the
convict school, Jan–Sep 1847. Divided
into two sections 'Probationary prisoners'
and 'Colonial prisoners', the reports
detail: name (alpha.); ship; number of
days attended; learning — to read, write,
cipher; can well-read, write, cipher.
Nominal return of Norfolk Island convicts
reported by the Superintendent as
having been detained in England more
than 4 months after conviction. Shows
name, number of months in England
after conviction, period in gang in Van
Diemen's Land, number of offences on
record, station and number of months to
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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