Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 8
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Main convict records
This is an overview to assist readers in identifying the main agencies responsible for convict
records. It is not definitive and does not document detailed administrative changes. For
additional information see the relevant chapters in this Guide and the Bibliography.
Records
Arrival
Parole
Freedom
Creating/responsible agency
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Convict Indents
*Colonial Secretary, Principal
Superintendent of Convicts
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Musters and other papers
Colonial Secretary
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Tickets of leave
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Tickets of leave passports
Colonial Secretary, from 1827 Principal
Superintendent of Convicts, from 1856
Police, Convict Branch
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Certificates of freedom
Colonial Secretary, from 1827 Principal
Superintendent of Convicts, from 1856
Police, Convict Branch
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Pardons
Colonial Secretary. Some information may
also be found in the records of the
Governor and Executive Council
Correspondence
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Assignment
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Mitigation of sentence
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Applications to bring
families to New South
Wales
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Applications from Clergy to
perform marriages for
convicts
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Other indulgences
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Land grants
Colonial Secretary. The main
correspondence series of the Principal
Superintendent of Convicts has not
survived. See also Convict Classification
Board 1849-1867
Colonial Secretary
* The Office of the Colonial Secretary began as the Private Secretary to the Governor. As the
work of administration of the Colony grew it became necessary to separate the two offices.
This was officially done in 1824.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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