Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 71
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Register of sentences remitted or
commuted, Feb 1838–Dec 1841
NRS 1169
Register of alleviated colonial sentences, showing
reference (Colonial Secretary's In-Letter
number), name of convict, ship, sentence,
sentence remitted or commuted (period
remitted, terms of commutation), date and to
whom commutated, by whom recommended and
any remarks. There is an incomplete index in the
front of the volume.
Convict
Classification
Board's records
Copies of letters sent, 18 Jan 1849–15 Oct
1867
Microfilm copy:
Reel 1260,
[4/4544]
NRS 1755
There are indexes in front of the volumes.
Dates
Item
Reel
18 Jan 1849–14 Oct 1853
[4/4517]
688
14 Oct 1853–15 Oct 1867
[4/4518]
688
Minutes and proceedings, 31 Jan 1851–
12 Apr 1866
NRS 1756
The board was chiefly concerned with
considering the cases of individual convicts with
the view to promoting them, remitting
sentences, and indulgences such as tickets of
leave.
Sheriff's records
Dates
Item
Reel
31 Jan 1851–31 Oct 1854
[4/4515]
688
30 Nov 1854–12 Apr 1866
[4/4516]
688
List of prisoners from Norfolk Island for
commutation of sentences, 1840–41
The volume records name, ship, original and
colonial sentence, and commutation.
Supreme Court's
records
Return of commutation of sentences,
20 Jan–2 Jul 1844
The return records number of case, name of
prisoner, offence, judge, verdict, condition of
prisoner, date of trial, sentence, commutation
and reason for it.
Additional sources
NRS 13236
Microfilm copy:
Reel 687,
[4/6271]
NRS 13486
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2801, [X734]
Musters and Census records see Short Guide 12. A person's condition
(free, convict, ticket of leave, certificate of freedom, conditional pardon,
absolute pardon) is often recorded in muster and census records.
Convict Indents often contain annotations concerning tickets of leave,
certificates of freedom and pardons.
NSW Government Gazettes – NSW Government Gazettes, 1832–50
have been indexed in the Australasian Genealogical Computer Index
(AGCI) available through The Society of Australian Genealogists.
Some records concerning tickets of leave, 1834, 1836–7 and pardons,
1834–1859 have been filmed from records held in Britain as part of the
Australian Joint Copying Project. See Appendix IV.
See also Chapters 11 and 12 in this Guide.
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