Convict Indexes

NSW State Archives

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
Unpublished
Spatial
Geospatial Coverage New South Wales (NSW81093)
Temporal Coverage From
Temporal Coverage To
Idioma English
Type Dataset
Data Status Inactive
Update Frequency Never/Static
Display User Contact Details No
Publisher State Records Authority
Contact Email info@records.nsw.gov.au
Jurisdiction New South Wales
Metadata.NSW