Thursday, July 26, 2007

Convict records on Ancestry

Wonderful to see more content on the Ancestry database.


New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834
New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859
New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849
Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Second Fleet, 1789-1790
Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791
Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868
Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788

It is estimated that an estimated four million Australians are related to convicts deported from Britain to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Information that can now be accessed includes the names, dates and place of conviction, terms of sentence, names of ships, departure dates and colonies where most of the 163,021 people were sent. Details were taken from the British authorities' Convict Transportation Registers 1788-1868 and three other documents from Australia itself detailing the names of convicts and settlers.

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