1819 Muster Roll of Female Convicts in Hobart Town

DOI: 10.25952/0p0a-g135 Open Access Link, download from here: <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/57582> The 1819 muster of female convicts in Hobart Town is extracted from a larger set of muster rolls and land grants for the settlements of Van Diemen’s Land (then...

Directory of the Norfolk Island First Settlement, 1788-1814

David Andrew Roberts and Cathy Dunn, ‘Directory of the Norfolk Island First Settlement, 1788-1814’, Open Access Dataset, University of New England, March 2024, DOI: 10.25952/x2y6-sw49 https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/57760 This project identifies the majority of...

Crimes of the Irish (1815-1821)

The following data is taken from the lists of Irish convicts transported to NSW in the 1810s, contained in the extensive bundles of ‘Musters and other papers relating to convict ships, 1790-1849’. It is transcribed by Chris Bedford, matched to the convict indents,...

Criminal Offence Coding

This coding system is an early attempt to classify the crimes for which men and women were sentenced and punished, both in the United Kingdom, and in the Australian penal colonies. It was built in 2017-2018 by Kelsey Priestman while working on the UNE’s...

Convict Voyages to Australia: labels and unique IDs

A formative phase of the application of digital methods to the study of convict Australia was the establishment of a coding system for ship voyages carrying convicts from England and Ireland. As a starting point, this was based on the voyages identified by historian...