Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 43
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Sources held
elsewhere
Darling Downs — Returns of persons
occupying Crown lands and description of
runs, 1845–52
Returns of exiles employed in the district,
1850–52
Lists of Exiles, 1844-45
Concerning those convict exiles transported on
the Royal George (1844), Sir George Seymour
(1845) and Strathenden (1846). The lists record
name, age, trade or calling, native place, by
whom engaged, wages, remarks and additional
information such as crime, where convicted and
sentence my also be given.
NRS 1374
Mitchell Library
A1764, CY 789
Microfilm copy in
State Records'
reading rooms
Reel 2905
Original held in
the Public Record
Office of Victoria;
Photocopy COD
115 in State
Records' reading
rooms
See also the Public Record Office of Victoria
website www.prov.vic.gov.au - Research Guide –
Convicts.
Additional Sources
Musters and Census Records see Short Guide No.
12. A convict's employer is often recorded in
Muster and Census records
Butts of ticket of leave passports, 1835–69,
NRS 12204 see Chapter 3 of this Guide
NSW Government Gazettes – NSW Government
Gazettes, 1832–50 have been indexed in the
Australasian Genealogical Computer Index
(AGCI) available through The Society of
Australian Genealogists
Chapters 6 and 13 in this Guide
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State Records Authority of New South Wales