GUIDE   TO   THE   PUBLIC   RECORDS   OF   TASMANIA

SECTION THREE

CONVICT DEPARTMENT

by P.R. Eldershaw

HOBART

ARCHIVES OFFICE OF TASMANIA

1965 (revised 2003)

© STATE of TASMANIA, ARCHIVES OFFICE OF TASMANIA

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CORRESPONDENCE

ASSIGNMENT LISTS

INDENTS

DESCRIPTION LISTS

GENERAL REGISTERS

APPROPRIATION AND EMPLOYMENT REGISTERS

CONDUCT REGISTERS

RECORDS RELATING TO EMANCIPATION AND INDULGENCES

DEATH REGISTERS

DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS

MISCELLANEOUS SERIES

SUB-GROUPS:  

i - Northern Tasmania

ii - Macquarie Harbour

iii - Tasman Peninsula

iv - Prisoners Barracks, Hobart

v - Committee of Officers for Reviewing Convict Expenditure

vi - Maria Island

vii - Female House of Correction, Hobart

APPENDIX A - Succession of officers in charge of convict administration

APPENDIX B - Lists of the principal ships transporting male and female convicts to Tasmania and Norfolk Island from Great Britain, with numbers of convicts on arrival

APPENDIX C - Male and female convicts transported to Tasmania from other non-Australian colonies

APPENDIX D - The numbers of convicts transported to Tasmania

APPENDIX E - Tables and graph of the number of convicts annually arriving from Europe, 1804-53, and of the convict population, 1804-62

APPENDIX F - Assignment lists not to be found in the State Archives in CON

APPENDIX G - Indents not to be found in the State Archives in CON

APPENDIX H - Appropriation lists not to be found in the State Archives in CON

APPENDIX I - Guides to the volumes in CON22, 31 and 40

APPENDIX J - References