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Series:
British and Other Documents Accompanying Convicts.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1838
End Date:
31 Dec 1852
Creating Agency:
01 Jan 181831 Dec 1877
Related Series:
CON77 Miscellaneous Convict Documents.15 Oct 183031 Dec 1874
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Series notes:
These documents represent what once must have been a very large series of papers, conveying to the colonial authorities such details as the Assignment Lists did not contain. There is a Transportation Order from a British Court (known as a "Caption"). There is a "Return to accompany the Caption of a Convict on his removal to a Government Prison" - this provides for his name, age, marital state, number of children, literacy, his general intelligence, trade or occupation, crime, sentence, date and place of conviction, date and place of committal, places and periods of confinement since last conviction, number of months in separate confinement since committal, character and conduct since conviction, residence of family or next-of-kin, former convictions, whether previously transported, character, general remarks, religion and health. There are examples of a statement furnished from the hulk containing particulars of register number, name and age of convict, offence, date and place of conviction, number of previous convictions, sentence, period of confinement since conviction, character, and Governor's report on cause of removal. And there is an 'A' list of female convicts under sentence of transportation.

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
Information Sources:
'Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania: part 3 Convict Department' (AOT 1965 and revision 2003) by PR Eldershaw
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