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.
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CON13
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Assignment lists and associated papers
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1810 – 12 Aug 1859 gaps
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CON14
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Indents of male convicts
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Nov 1827 – May 1853 gaps
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CON15
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Indents of female convicts
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Sep 1839 – Apr 1853 gaps
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CON16
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Indents of convicts locally convicted or transported from other colonies
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Feb 1835 – Nov 1853
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CON17
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Indents of male convicts arriving from Norfolk Island
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Jun 1844 – Sep 1852
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CON18
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Description list of male convicts
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1828 – 1853
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CON19
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Description list of female convicts
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1828 – 1853
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CON21
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Description list of convicts arriving from Norfolk Island
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1851
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CON22
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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
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1804 – 1853
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CON23
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Alphabetical register of male convicts
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1804 – 1839 gaps
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CON27
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Appropriation lists of convicts
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1822 – 1846 gaps
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CON31
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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)
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1803 – 1843
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CON33
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Conduct record of male convicts arriving in the period of the probation system
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1840 – 1853
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CON35
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Conduct registers of male convicts arriving under the assignment system on non-convict ships and on strength in Nov 1844
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1844
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CON37
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Conduct registers of male convicts arriving on non-convicts ships or locally convicted
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1840 – 1893
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CON39
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Conduct registers of male convicts whose records were transferred from the probation series, and of certain others
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c. 1840 – 1846
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CON40
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Conduct registers of female convicts arriving in the period of the assignment system
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1803 – 1843
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CON41
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Conduct records of female convicts arriving in the period of the probation
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1844 – 1853
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CON42
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Conduct register of female convicts reconvicted in the colony
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1854 – 1892
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CON94
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Tasmans Peninsula – Conduct registers, Port Arthur.
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1868 – 1869,1873- 1876
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HO11
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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.
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1787 – 1870
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MM33
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Microfilm copies of various Tasmanian Convict records held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
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Various
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CSO1
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Colonial Secretary’s Office files – Assignment lists.
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1824 – 1836
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CSO5
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Colonial Secretary’s Office files – Assignment lists
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1837 – 1841
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