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Series
Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania: Records
Catalogue reference: HO 10
What's it about?
HO 10
Lists of the male and female convicts and former convicts in the colonies giving particulars as to their sentences, employment, settlement in the country, the land and cattle acquired by them and other information; lists of pardons granted; lists...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1787-1859
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Description (What the record is about)
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Lists of the male and female convicts and former convicts in the colonies giving particulars as to their sentences, employment, settlement in the country, the land and cattle acquired by them and other information; lists of pardons granted; lists of convicts embarked for and arriving in New South Wales; general musters and census of 1828 relating to settlers and convicts.
Records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also CO 207
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Home Office, Criminal Department, 1793-1913
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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64 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in digital format only
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Labour
- Australia and Pacific
- Census
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8874/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,719,919 records
Within the department: HO
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