Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 70
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Due to fragility of the seals they cannot be
issued.
Index available in State Records' reading rooms
on Reels 1250-51.
Other sources
Returns of free and conditional pardons,
1810–19
The returns, of free and conditional pardons
separately, record date, name, where and when
tried, sentence, ship of arrival, and when arrived.
This is a facsimile of A1192 pp.805–909 held by
the Mitchell Library. There is an index on pp.106113 of the volume.
Sources held
elsewhere
List of absolute, exceptive and conditional
pardons unapplied for, 4 Jun 1850
This list is arranged by type of pardon and then
alphabetically by individual name. It gives the
convict's name, ship and year of arrival. It
appears to be a list of pardons still in the
Principal Superintendent of Convicts Office which
had not been collected. The convict had not
applied to collect them. Some appear to relate to
convicts who arrived as early as 1813. The
pardons are for imperial and colonial offences.
5.4
Copies in State
Records' reading
rooms at COD 212,
Q41
State Library.
Sydney Morning
Herald 22 Jun
1850 pp.2, 3, 6.
Microfilm copy in
State Records'
reading rooms
Reel 2907
Records of commutation of sentences
A commutation of sentence granted a reprieve from the death sentence usually to a term of
transportation or penal servitude.
Attorney General
and Justice's
records
Special bundles
NRS 333
Commutation of death sentences, 1856–75
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2227,
[5/7702]
Colonial Secretary's
records
Commutation of sentences, 1810–22
NRS 1163
Original documents, signed and sealed by the
Governor, commuting sentences. They provide
information on the trial and conviction of
prisoners, the crime and the conditions imposed.
The sentences commuted are all for colonial
convictions.
Microfilm copy:
Reel 6070,
[4/7020] *ARK
The original documents bear fragile seals and
there are restrictions on their issue and
photocopying.
Warrants commuting capital sentences to
transportation for life, 11 Jun 1821–15 Apr
1822
NRS 1164
Register of commutation warrants, 17 Sep
1821–10 Nov 1823
NRS 1168
The volume records date of commutation, name,
and when and where tried. Sometimes further
details are given as to sentence and place of
transportation. There is an index in the front of
the volume.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
Microfilm copy:
Reel 6070,
[4/2129.1] *ARK
Microfilm copy:
Reel 6070;
Photocopy at
(Sydney Records
Centre) COD 222,
[4/1265] *ARK
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