Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
The Enrolled Pensioner Force consisted of soldiers who came to the colony of Western Australia between 1850 and 1874, most arriving during the years of convict transportation as Guards on the convict ships. They were soldiers who had been discharged…
The Trove Australian Joint Copying Project has digitised 10,000+ reels of microfilm. The AJCP microfilmed 5+ million individual documents in thousands of series and collections of records relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Records microfilmed by the AJCP…
This group was established in February 2012 to increase awareness of the 1817 Pentrich Revolution, also known as the Pentrich Rising. The Pentrich Rising was an armed uprising in 1817 that began around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire and occurred…
This site offers searches of millions of records from fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey. Search individual convict life archives, explore and visualise data. You can search by name, trial details or distinguishing…
State Records of New South Wales (SRNSW), Index to the Colonial Secretary’s Papers, 1788-1825 is arranged alphabetically by subject and name. The Colonial Secretary was responsible for the official papers and records for the colony of New South Wales from…
Offers searches of 3 million+ criminal records from The National Archives (UK) collections. There are details of trials, sentences, physical descriptions and photographs if available. Transcripts of the records are available as well as digitised images of the original records.…
Queensland State Archives hold records of early settlers pre and post separation from the colony of New South Wales in 1859. These include: • Chronological register of convicts 1824-1839 – Moreton Bay penal settlement• Monthly and Half Yearly returns for…
This site, hosted by the State Library of Queensland, allows you to search the British Convict transportation register, compiled from British Home Office (HO11) records for convicts transported to Australia 1787-1867. Information available includes name of convict, known aliases, place…
Between 1789 and 1830 approximately half of the teachers who taught in the schools of the colony of New South Wales arrived as convicts. This entry, in the Dictionary of Educational History in Australia and New Zealand by Geoffrey Burkhardt,…
This project is a collection of ship histories funded by the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme. There are ship profiles for the Alexander, Borrowdale, Charlotte, Fishburn, Friendship, Golden Grove, HMS Sirius, HMS Supply, Lady Penrhyn, Prince of Wales…