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Digital Panopticon - Tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925

This website allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey. Use the site to search individual convict life archives, explore and visualise data, and learn more about crime and criminal justice in the past.

Fellowship of First Fleeters

An organisation composed of descendants of those who arrived in Sydney Cove with the First Fleet on 26 January 1788. Aim to spread knowledge about our eary history for future generations. Australia, New South Wales, Australian Convicts.

Female Convicts Research Centre

Promotes interest in the female convicts of Van Diemen

How to look for records of... Criminal transportation

Research Guide from the National Archives, United Kingdom.

International Centre for Convict Studies

For the study of penal transportation and convict experience within the British Empire from 1600-1940.

Lincolnshire Convicts Transported to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda

Lincolnshire Archives Index of Convict Records 1788 - 1868.

NSW State Archives and Records - Convicts Guide

Includes information on where to begin convict research.

Penal transportation records: Ireland to Australia, 1788–1868

From the National Archives, Dublin, Ireland.

State Archives and Records NSW - Assisted Immigrants Index

Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59, Moreton Bay 1848-59 and Port Phillip 1839-51. The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries.

State Library of Queensland - British convict transportation registers

Over 123,000 out of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia are recorded in this database. These include prisoners sent to New South Wales, Van Diemen

WikiTree - Australian Convicts and First Settlers Project

This project exists to bring together WikiTreers interested in improving the profiles of the first European immigrants to Australia.