Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 37
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Registers of prisoners who were not
artificers and who had been assigned,
24 Dec 1821–31 Dec 1824; 1825
The volumes record date of assignment, to
whom assigned, residence, prisoners' names,
ship, remarks, date and reason for return.
List of absconding convicts and assigned
servants, 1822–25
The list records the prisoner's name, vessel,
where absconded from, date last advertised,
number of weeks advertised, number of weeks
absconded, and occasionally further remarks.
Butts of tickets of exemption from
government labor, 21 Jun 1827–24 Sep
1832
NRS 12194
Microform copies:
Reel 586, Fiche
747-8, [4/4521-2]
*ARK to 1824
NRS 12195
Microfilm copy:
Reel 587;
Photocopy at COD
241, [4/4525]
NRS 12196
Each butt gives the following information:
number; date; prisoner's name; number; ship
(with master's name) and year of arrival;
religion; native place; trade or calling; offence;
place and date of trial; sentence; year of birth;
physical description; with whom and where
prisoner was to reside. Notes of alterations or
cancellations of tickets are on all the butts.
Dates
Item
Fiche
Reel
21 Jun 1827–3 Dec 1827
[4/4282]
1002
589
1 Jan 1828–2 Jan 1830
[4/4283]
1003
589
2 Jan 1830–1 Jun 1831
[4/4284]
1004
589
30 Jul 1831–24 Sep 1832
[4/4285]
1005
589
This volume has not been used and is blank
[4/4286]
The butts are indexed from 1 Jan 1828–24 Sep
1832, in front of the respective volumes and on
Fiche 1001 and there is an index available on the
State Records' website.
Registers of exemption from government
labor, 1828–32
NRS 12197
The registers show date of issue, name of holder,
ship and year of arrival, with whom and in what
district the prisoner will reside.
They are indexed by the indexes in front of the
volumes of butts of tickets of exemption, 1828–
32 [4/4283-85], series 3.22 on previous page.
Indexed on Fiche 1001 and an index available on
State Records' website.
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Dates
Item
Fiche
Reel
1 Jan 1828–8 Oct 1830
[4/4061]
1006
590
15 Nov 1830–24 Sep 1832
[4/4062]
1006
590
State Records Authority of New South Wales