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Brief Guide 13: records most frequently used for personal information about convicts

For a complete list of the records and an administrative history of the Convict Department see Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania The Convict Department by P R Eldershaw. A complete listing of all records held can also be found using the search facility in Tasmanian Archives Online

CON13

Assignment lists and associated papers

1810 – 12 Aug 1859 gaps

CON14

Indents of male convicts

Nov 1827 – May 1853 gaps

CON15

Indents of female convicts

Sep 1839 – Apr 1853 gaps

CON16

Indents of convicts locally convicted or transported from other colonies

Feb 1835 – Nov 1853

CON17

Indents of male convicts arriving from Norfolk Island

Jun 1844 – Sep 1852

CON18

Description list of male convicts

1828 – 1853

CON19

Description list of female convicts

1828 – 1853

CON21

Description list of convicts arriving from Norfolk Island

1851

CON22

Comprehensive registers of convicts. This reference is only used when no other record could be found for the convict. All convicts in the database will be appear in this series

1804 – 1853

CON23

Alphabetical register of male convicts

1804 – 1839 gaps

CON27

Appropriation lists of convicts

1822 – 1846 gaps

CON31

Conduct record of male convicts arriving in the period of the assignment system. (Subsequent series CON32 and CON34 neither of which appear in the index)

1803 – 1843

CON33

Conduct record of male convicts arriving in the period of the probation system

1840 – 1853

CON35

Conduct registers of male convicts arriving under the assignment system on non-convict ships and on strength in Nov 1844

1844

CON37

Conduct registers of male convicts arriving on non-convicts ships or locally convicted

1840 – 1893

CON39

Conduct registers of male convicts whose records were transferred from the probation series, and of certain others

c. 1840 – 1846 

CON40

Conduct registers of female convicts arriving in the period of the assignment system

1803 – 1843

CON41

Conduct records of female convicts arriving in the period of the probation

1844 – 1853

CON42

Conduct register of female convicts reconvicted in the colony

1854 – 1892 

CON94

Tasmans Peninsula – Conduct registers, Port Arthur.

1868 – 1869,1873- 1876

HO11

PRO London Criminal Convict transportation register. Only used when no conduct record available in Tasmania. Eg Convicts on the Neptune who were granted a pardon on arrival.

1787 – 1870

MM33

Microfilm copies of various Tasmanian Convict records held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Various

CSO1

Colonial Secretary’s Office files – Assignment lists.

1824 – 1836

CSO5

Colonial Secretary’s Office files – Assignment lists

1837 – 1841