- Description
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This dataset contains details for convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries including
- Name of convict, including any known aliases
- Place of trial
- Term of years
- Name of ship and date of departure
- Place of arrival
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’s Land (Tasmania), Moreton Bay (Brisbane), Port Phillip. Western Australia and Norfolk Island. Also recorded are some ships which were bound for Gibraltar. The records cover the period of 1787 to 1867.
- Download
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- Convict_records.txt (TXT) 85.94MB - 3543 hits
- Date Published
- 7 February 2011
- Date Updated
- Not specified
- Update Frequency
- Not specified
Dataset Information
- data.gov.au Category
- Culture, Government
- Keywords / Tags
- convicts, historical data, Libraryhack 2011, National & State Libraries Australasia
- Licence
- Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0)
- Permalink
- http://data.gov.au/1145
Contributing Agency Information
- Agency
- State Library of Queensland (View all datasets from State Library of Queensland)
- Jurisdiction
- Queensland
- Agency Program
- State Library of Queensland
Dataset Coverage
- Temporal Coverage
- 1787-1867
- Geospatial Coverage
- Not specified
- Granularity
- Not specified
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