British Convict Transportation Register 1787 - 1868

[Sunny Kate]

The State Library of Queensland has released the British Convict Transportation Register free online. The register includes the names of about 123,000 convicts of the approximately 160,000 who were transported to Oz from 1787 to 1868.

Details of convicts are limited to the Name, Place of Trial and Sentence and the date the convict was transported.

Go to the home page : http://www.slq.qld.gov.au

and click on the link to the Convict Register on right.

[FenTiger]

Thanks for posting this Kate, I have just been having a browse :D

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks, Kate - have added it to the Wiki ( Emigration and Immigration - Family Tree Forum)

[Phoenix]

So That's where James Flowerdew went! Thanks, Kate!

[Rachel Scand]

Oooooo that's interesting .... thank you Kate .... have book marked it

They must have stopped off there before going on to Van Diemen's Land ... one of my 'probable' ancestors was sent there

[Harrys mum]

I think they must still have more to add as my 5x great grandmother is missing from the first fleet, but she's not on Ancestry yet either.

[Chris in Sussex]

Thank you for the link.

I knew John Willsher had been transported for sheep stealing but didn't have the exact details of when or where...Now I do

[Mary from Italy]

These records seem to at least partly duplicate the ones on Ancestry, but at least they're a bit easier to read, and free for those who don't have an Anecstry sub.

[Christine in Herts]

Thanks for a useful-looking link!

It's noticeable that they don't necessarily relate just to those with a QLD destination - the ones I've found were sent to NSW and TAS (aka Van Diemen's Land).

Christine

[Christine in Herts]

I was looking up the less-usual surnames in our trees when I found one who had been convicted at the Central Criminal Courts (i.e. Old Bailey) so I had a look here:
Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court
and found that he'd got 10 years transportation for stealing a horse worth £1.

There was a time-lag of a couple of years.

He wasn't one of mine, so I haven't added anything ot the trees, but it was interesting.

Christine
PS - I think that "London Gaol" may be the same place. I've found a couple of possible matches.

[Richard]

I've found a relative transported for 7 years, no other info except he was sentenced at Middlesex Sessions in 1826. Does anyone know if the records of these survive or will whatever he did to occasion such punishment have to remain a mystery?

[Harrys mum]

Richard......I'll have a look if you put his name up.

Or google on google.com.au and check.

There are so many convict sites, you never know.

I found my first fleeter on a quiz site last night. She's still not on the State Library site, but has finally popped up on Ancestry, mistranscribed!!!!

[Richard]

Thanks Harrysmum

This is the details from the Queensland site:


Title: Bellenger, James

Description: James Bellenger, one of 148 convicts transported on the England, 28 April 1826

Sentence Details: Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years.

Vessel: England (Ship)

Date of Departure: 28 April 1826

[Richard]

ooh..took your advice re Australia Google and found this:

The following is a list of persons mentioned in Sydney newspaper articles 1829.The list was created by the Government, and is those men and women who were convicts and who had absconded:

Bellenger, James age: 27y 9 months


Seems he did a runner!

[Harrys mum]

Just about to post that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't find anything else though. I've taken a note and will keep an eye open.

[Richard]

Thanks Harrysmum, I appreciate that. It would be nice if I could find out what he did, the first question I suppose anyone asks with a convict!...his cousin (my 5xgreat grandad) was up at the old bailey a few years before, allegedly for stealing a cow in Bethnal Green, so I imagine it was probably something along those lines...though 5xg great grandad was in that instance found totally innocent I hasten to add!

[Cath RJ]

Hi Richard,

We found out about our convict's crime (or rather a kind person who had access did) in the Times Digital Archive. It was in the reports from the Assizes. In our case it was the Northern Circuit in Leeds. I then contacted Leeds library and got local newspaper reports which gave much more detail,
Hope you are able to do the same for your chap.