Lists of Female Convicts by the Ship Caroline and by His Majesty's Storeship Buffalo, 1833

MLMSS 7422/Folder 1X

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1833

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Microfilm : MAV/FM4/10567, frames 410-418 (a microfilm copy of the female convict lists, 1833, for the ships Caroline and Buffalo, made from the printed volumes at ZML F365.944025/1).

1 outsize folder - printed

The Caroline, under the command of Captain Alexander McDonald, left Cork on 15 April 1833 and arrived in Sydney on 6 August 1833. HMS Buffalo, commanded by Commander F.W.N. Sadler, sailed from Portsmouth on 12 May 1833 and arrived in Sydney on 5 October 1833.

Fragment of the printed convict indents (or lists) for the Caroline and HMS Buffalo. They include standing and indent numbers, name, age, education, religion, marital status, children, native place, trade, offence, when and where tried, sentence, former convictions, detailed physical description. Space is left for recording later events in the convicts' lives such as colonial sentences, tickets of leave, pardons, certificates of freedom etc. Indents such as these were printed between 1830 and 1842 for limited distribution to magistrates and officials to enable them to identify individual convicts, and to provide relevant facts of their history.

A microfilmed collection of printed Convict Indents is located at ZML F365.944025/1, as follows: Reel (1) MAV/FM4/10567 (524 frames) - 5 vols., 1830-1834; Reel (2) MAV/FM4/10568 (453 frames) - 4 vols., 1835, 1838-1842. Copies of the two microfilms are on open access and in stack.