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Convict Indexes

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Updated 24/06/2025

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Between 1788 and 1842 about 80,000 convicts were transported to New South Wales. Of these, about 85% were men and 15% were women. Almost two thirds of convicts were English (along with a small number of Scottish and Welsh), with the Irish making up the remaining one third. Convicts were usually given sentences of transportation for seven, 14 years or life. Some convicts in the 1830s received ten-year sentences. About one quarter of the convicts were sentenced to ‘the term of their natural lives’, and a proportion of these had reprieves from the death sentence. These seven indexes contain around 140,000 entries in total.

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Field Value
Title Convict Indexes
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/acdd01d0-d700-465c-a183-735c4f139ca0
Remote Last Updated 01/10/2015
Contact Point
Museums of History NSW
info@records.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/10/2015 - 01/10/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    147.0179,
    -32.1618
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Convict Indexes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-convict-indexes