Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 68
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
description. There are indexes in front of the
volumes.
Dates
Item
Reel
16–27 Mar 1846
[4/4483]
799
27 Mar–20 Jul 1846
[4/4484]
799
Registers of absolute pardons, 16 Dec
1791–1 Jul 1843
NRS 1177 *ARK
For period 1791–1810, the register is only a list
of persons receiving absolute pardons (showing
number, date of pardon, and name, until the
commencement of Macquarie's administration,
and then from 17 March 1810–24 August 1825
providing much fuller details). The first volume
contains manuscript copies of the pardons from
1 December 1830–26 February 1842. The other
volumes contain duplicates of the actual
pardons. There are indexes in front of the
volumes.
Dates
Item
Reel
16 Dec 1791–24 Aug 1825
[4/4486]
800
6 May 1826–28 Jun 1831
[4/4487]
800
1 Dec 1832–1 Jul 1843
[4/4488]
800
1 Dec 1830–26 Feb 1842
Registers of recommendations for absolute
pardons, 6 May 1826–1846
NRS 1179 *ARK
These volumes record details of convicts
recommended for pardons and usually the
names of the person or persons who did so.
There is an index in the front of each volume.
This series and series NRS 1177 above are
located on the same microfilm.
Dates
Item
Reel
6 May 1826–No.21 of 1844
[4/4489]
800
No. 22 of 1844–1846
[4/4490]
800
List of absolute pardons granted, 1 Jan
1837–31 Jul 1841
The list notes the date and number of the
authorizing despatch, the convict's name and
vessel of arrival, and occasional other notes.
NRS 1180
Microfilm copy:
Reel 801,
[4/4491]
There is an index in front of the volume.
Register of exceptive absolute pardons,
15 Mar–1 Sep 1845
During the term of the original sentence the
Exceptive Absolute Pardon was valid 'except
within the limits of the United Imperial Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland'.
NRS 1181
Microfilm copy:
Reel 801,
[4/4485]
The volume provides full personal details of the
convict and has an index.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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