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Author Hawkings, David T., author

Title Bound for Australia : a guide to the records of transported convicts and early settlers / David T. Hawkings
Edition paperback edition
Published Stroud : History Press, 2012
©2012

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Description 414 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents Contents note continued: 20.Hatton Papers -- Notes on Appendices -- Appendix 1 The Act of Parliament that Resulted in the Introduction of the Transportation of Convicts to New South Wales -- Appendix 2 A Circular Recommending the British Public to Emigrate to New South Wales -- Appendix 3 Regulations Regarding Applications for Pardons and Tickets of Leave, etc -- Appendix 4 Criminal Registers for the Transportation Period to Australia -- Appendix 5 Calendars of Prisoners for the Transportation Period to Australia -- Appendix 6 Prison Registers for the Transportation Period to Australia -- Appendix 7 Prison Hulk Records Usually Listing the Names of Convicts -- Appendix 8 Legal Proceedings: Records of Assizes, Old Bailey Sessions, Palatinate Courts and the Courts of Great Sessions of Wales -- Appendix 9 Convict Petitions: Records Containing Petitions From Criminals and Their Families -- Appendix 10 Home Office Warrants - Pardons and Reprieves, with Correspondence --
Contents note continued: Appendix 11 Sheriffs' Assize Vouchers, Sheriffs' Cravings, Sheriffs' Payments and Treasury Warrants -- Appendix 12 Prison Hulks - Changes of Names -- Appendix 13 Prison Hulks in Use in 1830 -- Appendix 14 Convict Transportation Records Arranged by Ship -- Appendix 15 Records of Transported Convicts in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land -- Appendix 16 The 1828 Census of New South Wales -- Appendix 17 Settlers, Convicts, Guards and Ships' Companies Named on Transportation Ships for New South Wales, 1803-16 -- Appendix 18 Miscellaneous Records of Convicts and Settlers from Colonial Office Correspondence Relating to Australia -- Appendix 19 Ships' Correspondence, Ships' Logs, Surgeons' Journals and Medical Hospital Musters -- Appendix 20 Ships' Crew Lists and Personal Details -- Appendix 21 Ships' Details -- Appendix 22 Hatton Papers
Machine generated contents note: 1.The First Fleet to New South Wales -- 2.Criminal Registers, Calendars of Prisoners and Court Legal Proceedings -- 3.Forgers of Banknotes and Coins -- 4.Prison and Prison Hulks Records -- 5.Petitions By and On Behalf of Convicts -- 6.Convicts Who Were Not Transported -- 7.Convicts Transported from Canada to Van Diemen's Land -- 8.Crew Lists and Ships' Details -- 9.The Voyage to Australia -- 10.Guards on Convict Transportation Ships, the New South Wales Corps and Other Army Regiments in New South Wales -- 11.Military Convicts at Robben Island -- 12.Records of Officials, Early Settlers and Pardoned Convicts in New South Wales -- 13.Records of Convicts After their Arrival in the Colony -- 14.Free Passage for the Families of Convicts -- 15.Criminal Offences in the Colony -- 16.Norfolk Island -- 17.Police in New South Wales -- 18.Persons Returning to Britain -- 19.The Case Study of John Hawkins - Convicted of Sheep Stealing in 1804 --
Summary The essential guide to the historical records at The National Archives. By directing the reader straight to the relevant files and providing a case study to follow the stages necessary to research your Antipodian relatives this makes locating your Australian ancestors more achievable than ever before
Analysis Australian
Notes First published by Phillimore & Co. in 1987
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Colonists -- Australia -- History -- Sources.
Colonization -- Australia -- History -- Sources.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Genealogy.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Archival resources.
Prisoners -- Great Britain -- Genealogy.
Exiles -- Australia -- Genealogy -- Methodology.
Exiles -- Australia -- History -- Sources.
Exiles -- Great Britain -- Genealogy -- Methodology.
Exiles -- Australia.
Penal colonies -- Australia.
Exiles -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources.
Exiles -- Great Britain.
Penal transportation -- Australia -- History -- Sources.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Genealogy -- Methodology.
Prisoners -- Australia -- History -- Sources.
Prisoners -- Australia -- History.
Prisoners -- Great Britain -- Genealogy -- Methodology.
Prisoners -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources.
Prisoners -- Great Britain -- History.
SUBJECT Australia -- Genealogy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114313 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001300
Genre/Form Family histories.
Handbooks and manuals.
ISBN 0752460188 (paperback)
9780752460185 (paperback)
Other Titles Guide to the records of transported convicts and early settlers