Indexes to convict records
Abbreviations in the Search Results
AP: Absolute Pardon
CCF: Colonial Certificate of Freedom
CF: Certificate of Freedom
CP: Conditional Pardon
fbs: free by servitude
TEGL: Ticket of Exemption from Government Labour
TL: Ticket of Leave
VDL: Van Diemen's Land
Certificates of Freedom, 1823-69
A document stating that a convict's sentence had been served and was usually given to convicts with a 7, 10 or 14 year sentence.
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Convict Bank Accounts, 1837-70
Convicts could retain the money they brought with them for their own use. This money could often 'purchase' a more comfortable life during their period of servitude.
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Convict Exiles, 1849-50
Transportation to NSW effectively ceased in 1842 but between 1846-50 exiles were transported. Exiles had served part of their sentence in a penitentiary in Britain and were granted a conditional pardon or ticket of leave on arrival in the Colony.
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Pardons, 1791-1825, 1837-47
Convicts with life sentences generally received pardons.
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Tickets of Exemption from Government Labor, 1827-32
Similar to a Ticket of Leave but the convict was not allowed to employ him or herself or to acquire property.
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Tickets of Leave, Certificates of Emancipation and Pardons, 1810-19
Search tickets, certificates and pardons from the early years of the Colony.
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Tickets of Leave
Available at the Society of Australian Genealogists
A ticket of leave allowed convicts to work for themselves on condition that they remained in a specified area, reported regularly to local authorities and if at all possible, attend divine worship every Sunday.
Ticket of Leave Passports, 1835-69
Allowed convicts holding tickets of leave to travel between certain points, visit a certain place or to attend the city markets for a specified period of time.
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Tasmanian convicts, 1804-53
Available at the Archives Office of Tasmania website
An index of all convicts transported to Tasmania and those who were convicted (through the convict system) in the colony, from the beginning of transportation in 1804 until 1853 when transportation ceased. The latest entry in the database for the locally convicted convicts is 1893. About 76,000 people are indexed.
