Links

Websites

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Ancestry, www.ancestry.com.au (s)

Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers,  https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/94359

Australian Cemetery Index, Lone Graves, www.austcemindex.com

Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au

Biographical Database of Australia, www.bda-online.org.au (s)

Claim a Convict, www.hawkesbury.net.au

FamilySearch, www.familysearch.org (s)

Female Convicts Research Centre, https://femaleconvicts.org.au/

Find A Grave, www.findagrave.com

Find My Past, www.findmypast.com.au (s)

Founders and Survivors, Tasmania 1803-1853, www.foundersandsurvivors.org

Free Settler or Felon, www.jenwilletts.com

Freshfields Prison Correspondence 1781­-1840, Bank of England, https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/search#?cludoquery=Freshfields%20prison&cludoCategory=Documents&cludopage=1&cludorefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bankofengland.co.uk%2F&cludorefpt=Home%20%7C%20Bank%20of%20England&cludoinputtype=standard

Hunter Living Histories, https://hunterlivinghistories.com

Internet History Resources, https://www.ihr.com.au/index.html

Irish Convicts to NSW 1788­-1849, https://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi

Irish-Australia Transportation Database, post-1836,
https://www.nationalarchives.ie/article/penal-transportation-records-ireland-australia-1788-1868-2/

Ironclad Sisterhood, Convict Women in Australia, pre-1818, https://ironcladsisterhood.sag.org.au

National Library Australia, trove digitised newspapers, https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers#

National Records of Scotland, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (s)

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages,
https://www.nsw.gov.au/family-and-relationships/family-history-search

NSW State Archives Collection, www.mhnsw.au/archive/subjects

Old Bailey Proceedings online, www.oldbaileyonline.org

Parramatta Female Factory, https://www.parragirls.org.au; https://femalefactoryonline.org  

Queensland State Archives, https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/archives/collection/convicts

Sandgate Cemetery, Northern Cemeteries, https://nmclm.com.au/locations/sandgate/

Scottish Indexes, www.scottishindexes.com

Society of Australian Genealogists, www.sag.org.au

 

Sources for Local History

Brisbane Water Historical Society, http://henrykendallcottage.org.au

Dungog Shire Heritage Study, A History in Three Rivers,
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/2014-three-rivers-dungog.pdf

Family History Society Singleton, http://www.family-history-society-singleton-inc.org/infopage.html

Gloucester Historical Society, https://www.gloucestermuseum.com.au

Historical Encounters, https://www.historicalencounters.org/he/hunter-region/

History in the Williams River Valley, https://williamsvalleyhistory.org

Lake Macquarie Family History Group, https://www.lmfhg.org.au

Maitland & District Historical Society, https://www.maitlandhistorical.org

Maitland & Beyond Family History, https://mdgs.org.au

Muswellbrook Shire Local and Family History Society, https://www.mbkhistorical.org

Newcastle Family History Society, https://nfhs.org.au

Paterson Historical Society, https://www.patersonhistory.org.au

Port Macquarie & District Family History Society, https://www.pmdfhs.org.au

Port Stephens Family History Society, https://www.sketchleycottage.org.au

Raymond Terrace & District Historical Society, https://www.sketchleycottage.org.au

Scone & Upper Hunter Historical Society, https://sconehistorical.org.au

Wollombi, https://www.visitwollombi.com.au/rediscovering-the-history-and-flavour-of-wollombi/

Wyong Family History Group, http://www.wyongfamilyhistory.com.au

Specific Online Datasets

 NSW Census and Population Books 1811-1825, (Ancestry)

NSW Certificates of Freedom 1810-1814, 1827-1867 (Ancestry, FMP)

NSW Colonial Secretary’s Papers 1788-1856 (Ancestry, SRNSW)

NSW Colonial Secretary’s Letters 1826-1856 (Ancestry, SRNSW)

NSW Convict Applications for the Publication of Banns 1828-1830, 1838-1839 (Ancestry)

NSW Convict Assignments Index 1821-1825 (SRNSW)

NSW Convict Death Register 1826-1879 (Ancestry, FMP)

NSW Convict Indents 1788-1842 (Ancestry, FMP as Convict Transportation Registers, SRNSW)

NSW Convict Index 1793-1873 (SRNSW, inc. TL, freedoms, pardons, deaths)

NSW Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1788-1870 (Ancestry, FMP)

NSW Convict Ships Bank Books 1824-1886 (Ancestry)

NSW Criminal Court Records 1830-1945 (Ancestry, SRNSW)

NSW Gaol Description and Entrance Records (Ancestry)

NSW Registers of Convicts’ Applications to Marry (Ancestry, FMP, SRNSW)

NSW Settler and Convict Lists 1787-1834 (Ancestry, FMP)

NSW St John’s Parramatta 1790-1916 (Ancestry)

NSW Tickets of Leave 1810-1869 (Ancestry, FMP, FamilySearch)

NSW and Tasmania Convict Musters 1806-1849 (Ancestry)

NSW 1828 Census (Ancestry, FMP, FamilySearch, SRNSW)

UK Prison Commission Records (Ancestry, FMP as Crimes, Prisons and Punishment)

UK Royal Navy Medical Journals 1817-1856 (Ancestry) SJ

England & Wales Criminal Registers 1791-1892 (Ancestry, FMP)

London, England, Newgate Calendar of Prisoners (Ancestry, FMP)

Ireland Prison Registers 1791-1924 (Ancestry, FMP)

Scotland High Court Criminal Indexes 1790-1919 (Scottishindexes, FMP)