Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 408
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Quarter sessions
Forerunner of District Courts
Recidivist
Habitual criminal
Remission of
sentence
A reduction in the length or severity of sentence
Renewed vide
Renewed see
Road gang
A gang of convicts working on the roads
Road Parties
Gangs of convicts working on the roads
Royal Warrant
Warrant from the monarch authorising the grant of a pardon
Runaway
A convict who has runaway from lawful custody
Scottish Martyrs
5 men tried in Scotland for sedition in 1793-94 having advocated
parliamentary reform and sentenced to transportation
Scourger
Flogger, one who inflicts the flogging
Secondary
transportation
Transported to a penal settlement for a colonial offence having originally been
transported to the Australian colonies
Sentence
The period of time a convicted criminal is given to serve in punishment for the
crime
Ship's indent
Convict Shipping list
Ship's muster
A list of convicts on board often not as detailed as the indent
Slop clothing
Government issue clothing often coarse or loose and ill-fitting
Slops
Government issue clothing or blankets See slop clothing
Specials
Convicts given special treatment for a variety of reasons, such as gentlemen
convicts, well educated and able to undertake clerical work
Standing No.
A number given in order as convicts enter a vessel or institution
Stipendary
magistrate
Paid magistrate
Stockade
Enclosure to house convicts employed on road gangs
Superintendent of
Convicts
See Principal Superintendent of Convicts
SurgeonSuperintendent
Royal Navy Surgeon who also acted as government agent responsible for the
care and treatment of convicts on board the ship to which he was appointed.
He was responsible to the Admiralty
Surgeons' journal
The journal kept by the surgeon (Surgeon-Superintendent) on board a
particular ship to record the details of illnesses or deaths of free people and/or
convicts on board, it may also include remarks on a convict's character or
behaviour and a description of the voyage
Surveyor General
Responsible for all official surveys of the Colony
Ticket of exemption
from government
labor
Differed from a ticket of leave in that the individual was not allowed to employ
him or herself or to acquire property. It allowed the privilege of residing until
the next 31 December with the person therein named, generally a relation in
a specific district
Ticket of leave
Allowed a convict to work for themselves on condition that they remained in a
specified area, reported regularly to local authorities and if at all possible
attended divine worship and to attend muster
Ticket of leave
passport
Allowed a ticket of leave holder to travel outside the district specified on the
ticket of leave, usually for employment reasons. It was usually granted for a
12 month period
Tolpuddle Martyrs
6 men from the village of Tolpuddle who in 1834 were convicted of having
administered unloyalful oaths (by swearing loyalty to a union they had
formed) and were sentenced to transportation
Transport
Commissioners
Commissions of His Majesty's Transport Service. First set up in 1689 to be
responsible for the provision of transports for troops and later convicts.
Abolished in 1817 the duties devolved to the Navy Board and from 1832 to
the Admiralty
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