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Betty Pace
AUSTRALIAN CONVICT INDEX, 1788-1868
The accepted authoritative work on Australian convicts is Charles
Bateson's "Convict Ships" (Library of Australian History, out of
print). In it, Bateson states that 160,151 total convicts were sent
to Australia. Although most of the convicts were from the British
Isles, some were also from various British colonies. The British
Government first sent convicts to New South Wales, Australia in 1788,
after the American Revolution. But NSW refused to accept convicts
after 1842 because the population had grown after the success of free
immigration. Convicts were first sent to Tasmania (formerly Van
Diemens Land) in 1803. Western Australian accepted male convicts only
from 1850 to 1868. [An attempt was also made to send convicts to Port
Phillip (Melbourne, Victoria), but this failed.]
This database is an index compiled from the convict indexes for each
state through numerous publications, as well as from many Internet
sites. It gives the name of the convict, his/her age or birth year,
birthplace or place of trial, occupation, marital status, ship, and
year of arrival. The database includes more than 48,000 names of
convicts sent to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
Source Information: Reakes, Janet, comp. "Australian Convict Index,
1788-1868" [database online] Provo, UT:
Ancestry.com, 2001. Original
data: "1788-1868 Convict Records." Records kept at the New South
Wales State Records Office, P.O. Box R625, Royal Exchange, NSW 2000;
at the Archives Office of Tasmania, 77 Murray St., Hobart, TAS 7000;
and at the State Records Office of Western Australia, Alexander
Library, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA 6000.
To search this database, go to:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5517.htm
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