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State Library of Queensland - British convict transportation registers

Created 11/11/2025

Updated 11/11/2025

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This dataset contains details for convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries including Name of convict, including any known aliases Place of trial Term of years Name of ship and date of departure Place of arrival Over 123,000 out of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia are recorded in this database. These include prisoners sent to New South Wales, Van Diemens Land (Tasmania), Moreton Bay (Brisbane), Port Phillip. Western Australia and Norfolk Island. Also recorded are some ships which were bound for Gibraltar. The records cover the period of 1787 to 1867. Entries in the British Convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office records. To search for a particular convict visit http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au. Note: The .txt file was created in 2011. The .csv file was updated 5 May 2016.

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Title State Library of Queensland - British convict transportation registers
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/458eb59f-e5f1-466f-925b-9dbcebb4f073
Remote Last Updated 20/06/2022
Contact Point
State Library of Queensland
opendata@slq.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 07/12/2012
Geospatial Coverage Queensland
Data Portal Queensland Government

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This dataset was originally found on Queensland Government "State Library of Queensland - British convict transportation registers". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/british-convict-registers