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| Their are now so many sites becoming available for researching your Convict Ancestors - that these pages would go on for ever. I have included basic search sites on these pages below:
My suggestion is that you search GOOGLE and enter Convicts ( and the area you require ( eg Victoria ) for continued updated sites |
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| The Victorian Crime and Punishment website is all about Crime and Punishment in the UK in the 19th century. In particular, it contains a searchable database of over 20 000 prisoners in Bedford, Huntingdon, Cambridge and Ely gaols. Even if your ancestors were not from these areas, if you have an interest in crime and punishment in the 19th century this is an attractive site with a lot of useful information. |
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| While the collection of convict petitions dates from the beginning of transportation from Ireland to Australia in 1791, all transportation registers compiled before 1836 were destroyed in the Four Courts fire of June 1922. Therefore, if the person you are researching was convicted before 1836, but was not the subject of a petition, he or she will not appear on this database. In other words, the records from which the transportation database was compiled such as the transportation registers, convict reference files and petitions to government for pardon or commutation of sentence, are incomplete |
| CLICK HERE to search the Convict database |
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