Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 36
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Bathurst — Annual alphabetical returns of
applications for assigned servants, 1835–39
The returns show: name of applicant, name of
property, total number of acres, number of acres
cultivated, where situated, nature of tenure
(whether by grant, purchase or lease), number
of convicts applied for, number at present in
service and date of application.
NRS 2774
Microfilm copy:
Reel 593;
photocopy at COD
219, [4/7554]
Queanbeyan — Deposition book for
assigned persons, Jun 1838–Oct 1844
NRS 3341
Vale of Clywd — Register of applications for
convict labour and mechanics, Sep 1836–
Sep 1838
NRS 3067
Vale of Clywd — Register of convicts
returned to the Government, 1837–39
NRS 3072
Executive Council's
records
Miscellaneous Papers, 1832–4, 1857
NRS 4242
Return of convict mechanics at the Lumber
Yard, 1831–32
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2652,
[2/8166]
Police records
Convict Branch – Daily work record of
convict farm gang, May–Dec 1864
NRS 10981
The volume records convict's name and ship,
date, class, nature of employment, amount of
work performed, conduct, industry, reference
letter, and overseer's signature (H. Skinner). In
front of the volume there are instructions as to
how the Work Book was to be filled out and
definitions of 'Degrees of Conduct' and 'Degrees
of Industry'. The volume is believed to relate to a
farm gang employed on land at Elizabeth Bay,
now belonging to the Kincoppal Convent of the
Sacred Heart.
Principal
Superintendent of
Convicts' records
Convict Indents
Microfilm copy:
Reel 594,
[4/5650]
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2652,
[4/5675]
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2652,
[4/5675]
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2800,
[2/8395]
NRS 12188
The bound manuscript indents for the years
1826–32 record 'how disposed of' which usually
gives assignment on arrival. See Appendix I.
Register of artificers and other labourers
assigned, 24 Dec 1821–1825
The register shows date of bond, to whom
assigned, residence, prisoners' names, ship,
occupation, date of payment, commencing date,
and cause of return and occasionally, additional
observations.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
NRS 12193
Microform copies:
Reel 586, Fiche
746, [4/4520]
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