Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 195
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Court of Criminal
Jurisdiction's
records
Lists of prisoners from Hobart per
Estramina for trial at Sydney, 31 Mar 1807
NRS 2702
Statistics of trials at Sydney, Hobart and
Launceston, Dec 1819–Feb 1824
NRS 2706
Informations, depositions and related
papers – Hobart, 1821–23, and Launceston,
May 1821
NRS 2707
A detailed schedule of these papers can be found
in Appendix N, pages 145-54, of the listing of the
Court of Criminal Jurisdiction records available in
State Records' reading rooms.
Returns of trials, Van Diemen’s Land, 1821–
23
The returns record name of prisoner, charge,
judgment, sentence and remarks.
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2392,
[5/1152 No.17]
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2652, [X726
pp.33-42]
Microfilm copy:
Reels 1982-1984,
[SZ804-807]
NRS 2708
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2652, [X726
pp.1-32]
The dates of the sessions were as follows:
Hobart, 9 Jan–31 Mar 1821; Launceston, 15–
19 May 1821; Hobart, 12–13 June 1821; and,
Hobart, 7 Feb–5 Mar 1823.
Principal
Superintendent of
Convicts' records
Copies of shipping lists of Exiles and
Transports sent to Van Diemen’s Land and
Port Phillip, 1846–49
List of convicts, "exiles" or transports,
recommended for conditional pardons, embarked
on various vessels, stating the prison they were
sent from and arranged by ship. Some of the
vessels listed called at Hobart en route to Port
Phillip.
Supreme Court's
records
NRS 16024
Quantity: 1 bundle
Microfilm copy:
Reel 1932;
Photocopy at
COD 281A-B,
[5/1160]
Chief Justice’s reports of persons tried at
the Supreme Court Sessions held at Hobart
and Launceston, 1823–39
Dixson Library
Add 552/6
Alphabetical register of convicts secondarily
transported from New South Wales to
Norfolk Island and remaining there in Aug
1844
Photocopy at
COD 2 in State
Records, original
in the Archives
Office of Tasmania
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.
192
Microfilm copy:
Reel 706,
[4/4546]
Van Diemen's Land papers, 1805–14
Depositions, Bench of Magistrates proceedings at
Yorkton 1805 and Hobart Town 30 Mar 1807,
also includes correspondence, petitions and
related papers. A listing is available in State
Records' reading rooms.
Sources held
elsewhere
NRS 12192
State Records Authority of New South Wales