Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
The Francis J Crowley Bequest project is a five year project at the National Archives of Ireland to catalogue and make available the papers of the Office of Chief Secretary of Ireland from 1818 to 1852. The papers contain material…
This site by Marion Purnell features a fully searchable online family tree of colonial Australians, their forbears and descendants. It includes 81,461+ individuals who lived in New South Wales 1788-1900.
Various subscription options offer access to transcripts and/or copies of the digitised original records. The Institutions & Organizations collections include:• Home Office: Criminal petitions 1817-1858• Metropolitan Police: Habitual criminals and miscellaneous papers 1903-1914• Admiralty: Convicts in Hulks 1818-1831 – The…
The Resources and Catalogues link offers access to Warwickshire’s Past Unlocked, the online catalogue. Online databases include: • Licensed victuallers in Warwickshire from 1801-1828.• Warwickshire tithe apportionments contains information from the Warwickshire tithe apportionments, produced after the Tithe Commutation Act…
This site by Maureen Rawson contains searchable indexes and transcripts to over 90,000+ names and 350+ links to useful sites. There are links to Kent places, Kent families and more. Indexes cover probate records, newspapers, land tax assessment, census and…
Use this site to explore the history of maritime London from Roman settlements to today’s Docklands including detailed information about the Prison Hulks on the River Thames. Find out about the individuals and events that have contributed to its wealth…
Findmepast.co.uk – Search records for 8,900+ prisoners held on prison ships 1811-1843. Prison ships, or hulks, were ships used as floating prisons – often ships were used that were no longer fit for battle but were still afloat. This collection…
This is a searchable database of 20,000+ prisoners from Bedford, Huntingdon, Cambridge and Ely gaols. Digitised images of original archive material and photographs are included if available. There is background information on the gaols, life inside a nineteenth century prison…
Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service – Bedfordshire Gaol Register. This ongoing project currently has 1801-1879 (with gaps) available. New updates are added on a weekly basis. Details given vary but can include name, age, hair colour, height, crime,…
The Last Farewell: Devon Convicts Transported to Australia 1782-1821, by Jack Walton, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2003. This is a transcribed index to this book and has been placed online with the author’s permission. The list includes the names…