Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 69
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Returns of pardons, 1869–73
NRS 1182
The record provides details of: name of prisoner,
offence for which tried, date of conviction, name
of judge, sentence, date of release and whether
absolute or conditional pardon, name of Colonial
Secretary of the time, nature of advice or opinion
of minister if any on papers, and any further
remarks.
Microfilm copy:
Reel 801, [X749]
Courts of Petty
Sessions' records
Queanbeyan — Record of applications for
tickets of leave, passports and conditional
pardons, 1841–59
NRS 3344
Judge Advocate's
records
Conditional and absolute pardons, 1788–
1803
NRS 5601
Original pardons, mostly for colonial convictions,
granted to the following convicts:
Principal
Superintendent of
Convicts' records
James Freeman, 1 Mar 1788
John Williams, 1 Mar 1788
Henry Lavell, Joseph Hall & Daniel Gordon,
4 Jun 1788
Henry Wright, 16 Sep 1789
Charles Melon, 20 Mar 1797
John Richards, 20 Mar 1797
Robert Turner, 13 Feb 1799
Edward Griffin, 11 Dec 1801
John Pearson, Thomas McLouglin, Mathew
Hoey, James Hardwicke & Joseph Samuels,
26 Sep 1803
Patrick McDermot, Thomas Shanks, & John
Brown, 5 Apr 1803
Lawrence Dempsey, Michael Houlahan,
Loghlan Doyle, John Lynch, Patrick Ross,
Timothy Mulcahy & James Conroy, 5 Apr
1803
Original tickets of leave and conditional
pardons, c.1834–48
Microfilm copy:
Reel 801,
[4/5651]
Microfilm copy:
Reel 772,
[5/1151]
NRS 15989,
[SZ1051]
Quantity: 1 box
These are original tickets of leave and conditional
pardons which were returned to the government
or were not collected. Some correspondence is
also included.
An item list is available in State Records' reading
rooms.
Conditional, absolute and colonial pardons
returned, 1827–74
NRS 12227,
[2/1907-13]
Quantity: 6 boxes
These are original pardons returned by the
convict. Many of these pardons contain seals,
most of which are damaged.
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