Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 54
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Queanbeyan — Records of applications for
tickets of leave, passports and conditional
pardons, 1828–57
Police records
NRS 3344
Microfilm copy:
Reels 801, 1261,
[4/5651]
When the convict establishment was broken up at the end of 1855, the
Convict Branch of the Police took over its duties until the remaining
convicts were freed or died.
Butts of ticket of leave passports, 1856–69
NRS 10987
The following information is given: registered
number, name of holder, ship and year of arrival,
place and date of trial, sentence, ticket of leave
number, what the holder was allowed to do
(usually to travel between certain places), the
Bench and date of recommendation.
Microfilm copy:
Reel 981,
[4/4279-80]
This series is continued from the above Principal
Superintendent of Convicts: Butts of tickets of
leave passports, 1835–55, NRS 12204 and
contains entries for imperial and colonial
convicts.
For item list see NRS 12204. Index available on
State Records' website.
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Records of tickets of exemption from government
labor
Principal
Superintendent of
Convicts' records
Butts of tickets of exemption from
government labor, 21 Jun 1827–24 Sep
1832
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.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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