Convict transportation registers database
Image taken from J.J.Knight's In the early days : history and incident of pioneer Queensland (1898)
The British Convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database has been compiled from the British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm. You can find details for over 123 000 of the estimated 160 000 convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries - names, term of years, transport ships and more. More detailed information is available about this convict database. You can also find out about the creation and launch of the database.
Please note: The original records on which this database is based is not an exhaustive list of all convicts sent to Australia.
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Last reviewed and updated October 28, 2009, 10:18 am