Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 409
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Transportation
The act of sending convicted criminals across the seas to serve their
sentences
Transportees
Convicts
Ultimo
Refers to the previous month
Ux
Latin term for wife of
Van Diemen's Land
Tasmania
Victuals
Food
Vide letter no.
See letter number
Victualling list
List of persons to receive food rations from the Government Stores
Abbreviations
The following terms or abbreviations appear occasionally in the Indents, Tickets of Leave or
other convict records:
A∫s
Assizes
AP
Absolute pardon
C
Certificate of Freedom when followed by a number such as C40/123
CCC
Central Criminal Court
CCL
Commissioner of Crown Lands (often the only government official in remote
areas and therefore may have been required to assume duties concerning the
administration of the convict system). They were special stipendiary magistrates.
CP
Conditional pardon
do.
Ditto
FF
Female Factory
FFR
Female Factory Report
Ft
Feet
G.D.
Gaol Delivery
Gov.Min
Governor's minute
HE
His Excellency, the Governor
HM
Her Majesty/His Majesty
HPB
Hyde Park Barracks
IG
Iron'd Gang
Ins
Inches
Lt
Lieutenant
MB
Moreton Bay, Queensland (Brisbane)
NI
Norfolk Island
PD
Port Dalrymple, Tasmania (Launceston)
PM
Police Magistrate
PP
Passport (enabling a ticket of leave holder to travel regularly between two
districts)
ppd
Pock pitted
Pt
Port
QS
Quarter Sessions
R&W
Read and write
Regt
Regiment
RN
Royal Navy
TL or T of L
Ticket of leave
VDL
Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
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Term relating to the original trial of the convict
State Records Authority of New South Wales
