Search for your ancestors who arrived in Tasmania and New South Wales as convicts or settlers.
Search for your ancestors who arrived in Tasmania and New South Wales as convicts or settlers.
The New South Wales and Tasmania: Settlers and Convicts 1787-1859 database comprises both indexes and images of the original handwritten records. It contains records relating to male and female convicts and former convicts in these two colonies.
It should be noted that not all of this information will be listed on every record, and in some cases fields may be blank or missing. The amount of information varies depending on the level of detail recorded in the original source document from which it was derived.
Biographical information:
Name
Year of birth
Year of arrival in the colony
Name of the ship they arrived on
Convict Information:
Where they were convicted
When they were convicted
Their sentence or term of transportation
Settler information:
Occupation or employment
Residence in the colony