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,...
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...
Tracking Illegal Movement in Convict in 1830s New South Wales In 2021, staff and students at UNE, working under the direction of Dr Melissa Gibbs and Nina Roberts, undertook a collaborative transcription project to investigate the prevalence and nature of convict...
