Series 05: Tasmania. Convicts colonially convicted from New South Wales and other British colonies, 1842-1849, with Police Magistrate’s papers, convict returns and other papers, 1817-1891

series

1819-1891

1060984

9 volumes

TAS PAPERS 31: Tasmania. Convict Department : convicts colonially convicted from New South Wales and other British colonies, 1842-49, and letters, petitions and affidavits to Colonial Secretary, Tasmania, 1839-1857

TAS PAPERS 32: Tasmania. Convict Department : papers relating to convict ships 1817-1853, with copy of log of the Ranger, 1824, and Chief Police Magistrate and Lieutenant Governor correspondence and other papers, 1820-1849

TAS PAPERS 33: Tasmania. Police Department : prisoners executed, 1825-1891, Morven Police records, 1837-1841, trials at Point Puer and Coal Mines, 1833-1840; with return of rations on Flinders Island, July 1839; Hobart and Richmond Police : miscellaneous papers, ca. 1833-1884

TAS PAPERS 34: Tasmania. Convict and Police Department records, ca. 1835-1839, including Port Arthur returns and correspondence; and Launceston Court of Quarter Sessions returns, 1837-1838

TAS PAPERS 35: Tasmania. Convict and Police Department records, 1831-1835, including Chief Police Magistrate letters received from Port Arthur and Macquarie Harbour, and Port Arthur ration lists and returns of constables

TAS PAPERS 36: Tasmania. Convict and Police Department records, 1838-1842, including Port Arthur and Campbell Town returns, 1838

TAS PAPERS 37: Tasmania. Convict and Police Departments and Colonial Secretary's Office correspondence and other papers, 1842-46, with prospectus and list of subscribers of Hutchins School, 1846

TAS PAPERS 38: Tasmania. Colonial Secretary's Office : letters received, warrants and assignment lists re convicts 1846-49, with Commissariat, Comptroller General, Lieutenant Governor and Chief Police Magistrate records, 1833, 1847-50

TAS PAPERS 39: Tasmania. Colonial Secretary's Office, Chief Police Magistrate and Comptroller General correspondence, 1849-1852, and return of patients treated in HM General Hospital at Launceston, May 1852

Information compiled from Guide to the Convict Records in the Archives office of NSW, 2nd ed., 1981. Appendix B, 'Chronological list of Convict Ships arriving at Van Diemen's Land 1812-53 and guide to the location of papers relating to each vessel', pp. 151-172; Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania, Section Three : Convict Department / by P. R. Eldershaw. Hobart : Archives Office of Tasmania, 1965 (revised 2003). Appendices F-H (http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/tasmaniasheritage/popular/convicts/convictdept); and Brief general survey of Tasmanian historical material in the Mitchell Library, Sydney / University of Tasmania, History Department (Q994.602/13. Bound photocopy of typescript list by R. Sharman, State Archivist, n.d., 195-?)