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Convict Indexes

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ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2FANDS&rft_id=http://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/convict-indexes&rft.title=Convict Indexes&rft.identifier=http://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/convict-indexes&rft.publisher=data.nsw.gov.au&rft.description=Index to convict bank accounts 1837-70Index to Certificates of Freedom, 1823-69Index to convict pardons, 1791-1825 and 1837-47Index to Tickets of Exemption from Government Labour, 1827-32Index to Tickets of Leave, 1810-75Index to Tickets of Leave, Certificates of Emancipation, and Pardons, 1810-19Index to Tickets of Leave Passports, 1835-69Between 1788 and 1842 about 80,000 convicts were transported to New South Wales. Of these, about 85% were men and 15% were women. Almost two thirds of convicts were English (along with a small number of Scottish and Welsh), with the Irish making up the remaining one third.\r\n\r\nConvicts were usually given sentences of transportation for seven, 14 years or life. Some convicts in the 1830s received ten-year sentences. About one quarter of the convicts were sentenced to ‘the term of their natural lives’, and a proportion of these had reprieves from the death sentence.\r\n\r\nThese seven indexes contain around 140,000 entries in total.&rft.creator=Anonymous&rft.date=2015&rft.coverage=New South Wales (NSW81093)&rft_rights=Creative Commons Attribution http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by&rft_subject=convict&rft_subject=history&rft.type=dataset&rft.language=English Access the data
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Between 1788 and 1842 about 80,000 convicts were transported to New South Wales. Of these, about 85% were men and 15% were women. Almost two thirds of convicts were English (along with a small number of Scottish and Welsh), with the Irish making up the remaining one third.

Convicts were usually given sentences of transportation for seven, 14 years or life. Some convicts in the 1830s received ten-year sentences. About one quarter of the convicts were sentenced to ‘the term of their natural lives’, and a proportion of these had reprieves from the death sentence.

These seven indexes contain around 140,000 entries in total.

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Index to convict bank accounts 1837-70
Index to Certificates of Freedom, 1823-69
Index to convict pardons, 1791-1825 and 1837-47
Index to Tickets of Exemption from Government Labour, 1827-32
Index to Tickets of Leave, 1810-75
Index to Tickets of Leave, Certificates of Emancipation, and Pardons, 1810-19
Index to Tickets of Leave Passports, 1835-69

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