Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 6
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Table of Contents
Foreword ................................................................................................................... 2
Table of Contents ...................................................................................................... 3
Convict Records Overview ......................................................................................... 5
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 8
Transportation ......................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 1: Trial and Transportation ......................................................................... 14
Chapter 2: Assignment ............................................................................................ 24
Chapter 3: A Measure of Freedom (Tickets of leave) ............................................... 41
Chapter 4: Sentence Served (Certificates of freedom) ............................................. 53
Chapter 5: Pardons: Conditional and Absolute ......................................................... 58
Chapter 6: Convict Barracks, Establishments, Factories and Farms ......................... 69
Chapter 7: Health and Welfare ................................................................................ 79
Chapter 8: Bank Accounts, Clothing, Rations and Stores ......................................... 89
Chapter 9: Families of Convicts ............................................................................... 96
Chapter 10: Death and Departure .......................................................................... 105
Chapter 11: Colonial Trials and Court Records ....................................................... 114
Chapter 12: Gaols .................................................................................................. 145
Chapter 13: Penal Settlements .............................................................................. 156
Chapter 14: Moreton Bay ....................................................................................... 172
Chapter 15: Norfolk Island .................................................................................... 178
Chapter 16: Van Diemen's Land ............................................................................. 189
Chapter 17: Port Phillip and Western Port ............................................................. 201
Chapter 18: Letters about convicts ........................................................................ 205
Appendices ............................................................................................................ 223
Timeline ................................................................................................................ 346
Glossary of terms and Abbreviations ..................................................................... 350
Bibliography .......................................................................................................... 356
Index
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State Records Authority of New South Wales
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