Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 50
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
to the Colonial Secretary.
There are indexes in front of the volumes.
Dates
Item
Reel
18 Jan 1849–14 Oct 1853
[4/4517]
688
14 Oct 1853–15 Oct 1867
[4/4518]
688
Minutes of proceedings, 31 Jan 1851–
12 Apr 1866
NRS 1756
The minutes record the date of the meeting,
members present and the decisions in cases of
convicts either groups or individuals concerning
promotions, remission of sentences and
indulgences such as tickets of leave.
Courts of Petty
Sessions' records
Dates
Item
Reel
31 Jan 1851–31 Oct 1854
[4/4515]
688
30 Nov 1854–12 Apr 1866
[4/4516]
688
These were formally known as Benches of Magistrates and were the
local courts which a convict would attend for trial, punishment, muster
and apply for a ticket of leave or other indulgence.
Bathurst —
NRS 2776
Descriptions of ticket of leave holders in the
district, Jun 1843–1846
Microfilm copy:
Reels 599 and
895, [2/8320]
The register records ticket of leave number,
name, ship, trial, sentence and description.
Ticket of leave muster roll, c.1838–44
NRS 2775
The roll records name, ship, number of ticket,
present residence and when mustered.
Microfilm copy:
Reels 599, 895,
[2/8321]
Brisbane Water —
NRS 3020
Register of tickets of leave granted in the
district of Brisbane Water, 1827–29
Microfilm copy:
Reel 895, [4/5525
pp.154-57]
Copies of tickets of leave forwarded to
Brisbane Water, 1827–29
NRS 3021
Quarterly musters of ticket of leave holders,
1827–35
NRS 3022
Microfilm copy:
Reel 895, [4/5525
pp.164-73]
Microfilm copy:
Reel 895, [182729, 1835, 4/5525
pp.12-19, 120-25,
162-63]
Broulee see Moruya
Darling Downs see under Sources held
elsewhere p.49
Eden —
NRS 2976
Muster of ticket of leave holders, 1847 in
Bench Book
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2680,
[4/5554 pp.15-16,
34]
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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