Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This site has an online database which details 2000+ Lincolnshire convicts known to have been transported between 1788-1868.
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 Prison Database provides extensive details on those who were transported.