Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 358
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Home Office HO7/2 — Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1823–35
Reel 1541 (Copy in SRNSW)
Page 1 — Report of proceedings and papers of the Board appointed to enquire into the charges made by the Rev.
John Vincent against Mr Joseph Hughes, Surgeon Superintendent of the convict ship Elizabeth and Mr Walter Cock,
master of the said ship conveying female convicts from Ireland to New South Wales, 27 Mar 1828
Page 39 — Alphabetical return of all convicts deceased in N.S.W., as far as was known to the Principal Superintendent
of Convicts, for the year 1829
The return includes convicts who were executed or murdered as well, and notes name, ship of arrival, age, date of
burial, district or parish, and remarks as to cause or status.
Page 47 — Duplicate of above
Reel 1542 (Copy in SRNSW)
Page 108 — Petition from the Tradesmen's Society, June 1832, complaining that the employment of the inmates of
the Penitentiary on government contracts for clothing deprives many industrious families of work.
Page 114 — Convicts deceased 1833. As previously
Page 122 — Duplicate of above
Page 136 — Papers re the supply of Bibles to convicts 1833
Page 142 — Reports by John Henry Capper, Superintendent of Ships, Vessels employed for the confinement of
offenders under sentence of Transportation, 1832
Page 155 — Convicts deceased 1834. As previously
Page 165 — Rules and Regulations for the Hulks Surprise and Essex. Printed 1832
Page 250 — Rules and Regulations for the County of Cork Gaol and House of Correction. Printed 1828
Page 221 — Rules and Regulations for the Penitentiary at Cork. Printed 1830
Page 252 — Detailed returns of officers and guards employed on the convict hulk Surprise, Cove of Cork, 11 Oct 1835
Page 252 — Detailed returns of officers and guards employed on the convict hulk Essex, Dublin, 8 Oct 1835
— Account of Cork Convict Department, 1835
— Return of Invalid convicts on board the Hulk Essex, 8 Oct 1835.
— Dietary table, Penitentiary House, Cork 1835.
— Other papers and accounts relating to the Irish Hulks
Home Office 9/1-16: Miscellaneous Convict Prison Registers, 1802–49
These registers, the identification of which is tentative, appear to consist chiefly of lists of convicts, under sentence of
transportation or hard labour, incarcerated in the various hulks and prisons in the United Kingdom.
The registers up to 1836 record gaol number, name, age, offence, where received from, where and when convicted,
how and when discharged (to places such as NSW, VDL). From 1837 they also include sentence, marital status,
literacy and trade.
Most volumes are indexed and the indexes record name, page in register, and character report from gaoler. The
indexes are usually at the beginning of the volume but many are continued in a later section.
Reel 4879
HO9/1
Chatham
1820–33
Ganymede
HO9/2
Euryalus
HO9/3
Woolwich & Devonport
Dolehun
Captivity
Cumberland
Ganymede
Chatham
1825–36
Fortitude
1821–33
Discovery
HO9/4 pp.1-61
Prudentia, Woolwich
1803–21
Reel 4880
HO9/4
pp.60-end
Retribution, Justitia,
Woolwich
1803–36
HO9/6
Index to Retribution
n.d.
HO9/5
Index to Justitia
n.d.
HO9/7
pp.1-124
Retribution
1802–31
Bellerophon, Sheerness,
Index pp.143-182
1831–34
Reel 4881
HO9/7
pp.124-end
State Records Authority of New South Wales
Leviathan
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