Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This comprehensive site by Peter Mayberry features:Irish Convicts and Databases• Irish convicts to NSW 1788-1849. A fully searchable database database which provides full details from the convict indents held by State Records New South Wales and other sources.• 1798 &…
This site by John Graham lists the military personnel, convicts and civilians involved in this experimental settlement. It also includes biographical information.
This extensive guide, by the Perth DPS (Dead Persons’ Society,) contains information on many aspects of the convict system and includes a glossary, bibliography and extensive online convict databases These include: • All the Convict Ships – Chronological lists of…
This database is searchable by surname or ship. A search returns detailed information on the convict including ship and arrival date, alias, birth date, marital status, occupation, literacy, religion, sentence details, crime and ticket of leave date.
The Convict Trail Project is a volunteer organisation which protects, preserves and promotes the Great North North Road which extends north from Sydney to the Hunter Valley. The Convict Trail follows the route of the 240 km Great North Road,…
This index by Graham Jaunay lists convict’s name, crime, date and sentence.
This site is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. The site is searchable by name with…
This website is dedicated to all female convicts who lived in Tasmania (formerly Van Diemen’s Land). There is a Female Convicts in VDL Database which aims to record all female convicts who spent time in Van Diemen’s Land. This site…
Tasmanian Convict Record AbbreviationsThis list by Maree Ring includes: • Explanation of Convict Records• Abbreviations used in Convict Records• Name Abbreviations• Occupations• Place Names• Abbreviations Used In Other Records• Irish Transportation Records• Records from the UK
This alphabetical list (incomplete) of ships to Tasmania, by M Yost, includes departure and arrival details convict numbers, remarks and sources. Convicts listed by researchers on the Tasmanian Convict Index are also listed with their ship’s voyage in this index,…