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• Ancestry.com - New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849 $

  Original source: Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO10, Pieces 5, 19-20, 32-51); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859 $

  Original source: Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO10, Pieces 31, 52-64); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849 $

  Original source: New South Wales Government. Musters and other papers relating to convict ships. Series CGS 1155, Reels 2417-2428. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1814, 1827-1867 $

  Original source: New South Wales Government. Butts of Certificates of Freedom. NRS 1165, 1166, 1167, 12208, 12210, reels 601, 602, 604, 982-1027. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 $

  Original source: New South Wales Government. Indents First Fleet, Second Fleet and Ships. NRS 1150, microfiche 620

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons, 1788-1870 $

  Original source: New South Wales Government. Copies of returns of Absolute and Conditional Pardons granted. Series 1165. State Records Reel 774, copy of 4/4492. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Registers of Conditional Pardons. Series 1170. State Records Reel 774. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Register of convicts recommended for Conditional Pardons. Series 1173. State Records Reel 797-798, copy of 4/4478-80. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Alphabetical registers of pardons. Series 1174. State Records Reel 798, copy of 6/884. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Registers of Absolute Pardons. Series 1177. State Records Reel 800, copy of 4/4486-88. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Registers of recommendations for Absolute Pardons. Series 1179. State Records Reel 800, copy of 4/4489-90. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Copies of Conditional Pardons Registered. Series 1172. Reels 775-796, 3037. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Card Index to Letters Received, Colonial Secretary. Reel 1250. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930 $

  Original source: New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Albury Gaol]. Series 1966. State Records Reel 5082. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Armidale Gaol]. Series 1989. State Records Reel 5083. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Bathurst Gaol]. Series 1998. State Records Reels 5084-5092. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Berrima Gaol]. Series 2021. State Records Reel 5093. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Biloela Gaol]. Series 2027. State Records Reel 5094. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Broken Hill Gaol]. Series 2057. State Records Reel 5095. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Darlinghurst Gaol]. 2138. State Records Reels 5097-5106. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia. New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Deniliquin Gaol]. Series 2191. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Dubbo Gaol]. Series 2202. State Records Reel 5096. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Goulburn Gaol]. Series 2232. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Photographic Description Books [Trial Bay Gaol]. Series 2549. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Description books [Sydney Gaol and Darlinghurst Gaol]. Series 2523. State Records Reels 857-889. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Description books [Sydney Gaol]. Series 2517. State Records Reels 855-856. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Entrance books [Sydney Gaol and Darlinghurst Gaol]. Series 2519. State Records Reel 854. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Entrance books [Sydney Gaol]. Series 2514. State Records Reels 850-853. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Entrance books [Sydney Gaol]. Series 2515. State Records Reel 1864. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Entrance books [Sydney Gaol]. NRS 2514, Reels 850-853. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Entrance books [Sydney Gaol]. NRS 2515, Reels 1864. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Entrance books [Sydney and Darlinghurst Gaol]. NRS 2519, Reels 854. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Description books [Sydney Gaol and Darlinghurst Gaol]. NRS 2523, Reels 857-889. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Description books [Sydney Gaol]. NRS 2517, Reels 855-856. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Gaol Photograph Description Books. NRS 1966, 1989, 1998, 2021, 2027, 2057, 2191, 2202, 2138, 2232, 2549. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851 $

  Original source:Registers of convicts' applications to marry. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia: State Records Authority of New South Wales. Series 12212.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834 $

  Original source: Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO10, Pieces 1-4, 6-18, 28-30); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Tickets of Leave, 1810-1869 $

  Original source: Ticket of Leave butts, 31 Mar 1827-20 Aug 1867. Series 12202. State Records Reels 909-965, 2688A. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Register of Tickets of Leave, 29 Jul 1824-8 Mar 1827. Series 12200. State Records Reels 752-754. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Colonial Secretary's Correspondence, Ticket of Leave Muster Roll, 1825-1857. Series 906. State Records Reels 257, 599, and 894. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Butts of Colonial Tickets of Leave, 1849-1875. Series 12207. State Records Reels 891-893. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Butts of Ticket of Leave Passports, 1835-1869. Series 12204. State Records Reels 966-981. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; List of Tickets of Leave Issued, 1810-1814. Series 1166. State Records Reel 601. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

• AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the convicts that were transported to Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 1788-1842.

• Early Australian History. Convict Life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, Parts I & II]

  A series of historical sketches, bearing upon Australian colonization and convict life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

• Free Settler or Felon?

  Online searchable index of inhabitants of the Newcastle, Hunter & Brisbane Water districts of New South Wales pre 1850.

• 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.

  • Assisted Immigrants (digital) Shipping Lists - State Archives & Records, New South Wales

    Immigrants arriving in Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-59; Port Phillip, 1839-51; Sydney and Newcastle, 1844-59; Sydney, 1860-79; Sydney, 1880-96.

• State Archives and Records NSW - Convicts - Indexes to Convict Records

  Online searchable databases from State Records New South Wales.

  • State Archives and Records NSW - Convicts Index

    A searchable database containing certificates of freedom; bank accounts; deaths; exemptions from Government Labor; pardons; tickets of leave; and, tickets of leave passports. Includes: Certificates of Freedom, 1823-1869; Convict Bank Accounts, 1837-1870; Tickets of Exemption from Government Labor, 1827-32; Tickets of Leave, Certificates of Emancipation and Pardons, 1810-19; Tickets of Leave, 1810-1875; Tickets of Leave Passports, 1835-1869; Convict Death Register, 1828-1879; Recommendations for Absolute and Conditional Pardons, 1826-1856; Convict Pardons, 1791-1873.

• 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

• The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales

  A book by Bob Reece.