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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.26193/RR82PE |
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Publication Date
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2021-11-05 |
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Title
| Norfolk Island Penal Colony |
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Subtitle
| Convicts transported to Norfolk Island (1825-1855) |
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Author
| Finnane, Mark (Griffith University) - ORCID: 0000-0003-3776-8091
Causer, Tim (University College London) - ORCID: 0000-0001-5550-0561
Durnian, Lisa (Griffith University) - ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9165-4226 |
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Point of Contact
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Finnane, Mark (Griffith University) |
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Description
| A reconstructed register of convicts detained at the Norfolk Island Penal Colony. Data was prepared by Dr Tim Causer (University College London) and curated for the Prosecution Project by Mark Finnane and Lisa Durnian. (2021-10-2) |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities; Law; Social Sciences |
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Keyword
| convicts
secondary transportation
punishment
Australian colonial history
Norfolk Island
penal colony |
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Related Publication
| Causer, Tim. ‘“The Worst Types of Sub-Human Beings”?: The Myth and Reality of the Convicts of the Norfolk Island Penal Settlement, 1825-1855’. Islands of History: Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference Professional Historians Association (NSW). Anchor Books Australia, 2011.
Causer, Tim. ‘“Only a place fit for angels and eagles”: the Norfolk Island penal settlement, 1825-55’. (PhD thesis, University of London, 2010). |
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Notes
| Data (including penal transportation, shipping, convict administration and court records) was prepared from original archival sources by Tim Causer, in the course of his doctoral research at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London. The research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Doctoral Awards scheme. |
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Language
| English |
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Producer
| Mark Finnane (Griffith University) |
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Contributor
| Project Leader : Tim Causer
Data Curator : Lisa Durnian
Data Curator : Mark Finnane |
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Deposit Date
| 2021-10-15 |
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Time Period
| Start Date: 1825-01-01 ; End Date: 1855-12-31 |
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Data Type
| text and numeric |
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Data Source
| Data has been prepared from original archival sources by Tim Causer in the course of this doctoral research project examining the Norfolk Island penal station, 1825–55. The research was carried out at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London, and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Doctoral Awards scheme. The data presented here was prepared primarily from the following archival sources: United Kingdom The National Archives, Kew HO24/1–3: Home Office, Prison Registers and Statistical Returns, 1838–75. Australia Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tasmania, Hobart CA.6/WIL: Papers of Bishop Robert William Willson. National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 3247: Captain Nicholas Horsley, Diary, 1842–60. MS 3275: John Ward, Papers, 1841–2. MS 3639: Convict Documents, 1845–6 MS 4139: Lists, 1847–53 Norfolk Island Museum, Kingston NIM 7128: James Stevens, ‘Diary, Norfolk Island, 1846’. [Typescript]. State Library of New South Wales, Sydney A 1502: Reverend Thomas Sharpe, Papers, 1826–69. A 1831 [CY 1267]: Pestongee Bomangee Journal, 1852. Ar 26/1–9: Letters, Dr J.A. Reid to H.C. Allport, 1840–3. B804 [CY1258]: Sir James Dowling, ‘Norfolk Island Journal, 1833’. MSS 681 [CY1084]: ‘A Convict’s Narrative, c. 1830’. DL MS 102 [CY3587]: Norfolk Island convict papers, c. 1842–67. DL Add. 109: Dr Henry Graham to Alexander Maconchie, 26 July 1843. DL MSQ 168: Norfolk Island Convict Autobiographies, c. 1840–44. DL MSQ 363: Reverend Thomas Beagley Naylor, Papers, 1829–49. State Records of New South Wales, Kingswood NRS 155: Musters and Papers Relating to Convict Ships, 1790–1849. NRS 905: Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence, Letters Received, 1826–1982: 4/2200; 4/2243; 4/2244.1; 4/2288; 4/2327.1; 4/2368.1; 4/2620; 4/2657; 4/2658; 4/1171 (Reel 764); 4/2566 (Reel 769); 4/2583.1 (Reel 693); 4/2698 (Reel 770). NRS 988: Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence, Copies of Letters to Norfolk Island, 1825–51: 4/2583.1 (Reel 693); 4/3821 (Reel 764); 4/3822 (Reel 765); 4/3823 (Reel 765); 4/3824 (Reel 766). NRS 1000: Sheriff’s Office, Out-Letter Books, 1831–50. NRS 3402, 2/2673: Registry of Criminal and Suspected Persons, 1841–5. NRS 5727: Letters, Petitions, and Statistical Returns Received by Mr Justice Burton, 1834–43. NRS 12188: Convict Indents, 1788–1842. Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office, Hoabrt CON 1: General Correspondence of the Comptroller General of Convicts, 1843–69. CON16: Indents of Convicts Locally Convicted or Transported from Other Colonies, 1835–43. CON17: Indents of Male Convicts Arriving from Norfolk Island, 1844–52. CON21: Description Lists of Convicts Arriving from Norfolk Island, 1845–51. CON31: Conduct Registers of Male Convicts Arriving in the Period of the Assignment System, 1803-43. CON33: Conduct Registers of Male Convicts Arriving in the Period of the Probation System, 1840-53. CON34: Conduct Registers of Male Convicts Arriving Under the Assignment System on Strength in November 1844, 1844-92. CON35: Conduct Registers of Male Convicts Arriving Under the Assignment System on Non-Convict Ships and on Strength in November 1844. CON37: Conduct Registers of Male Convicts Arriving on Non-Convict Ships or Locally Convicted, 1840-93. CON39: Conduct Registers of Male Convicts Whose Records were Transferred from the Probation Series, and of Certain Others, 1840-1846. CON103: Minutes of Meetings of Officers for Reviewing Convict Expenditure, 1843-1870. CON148: Alphabetical Register of Convicts Secondarily Transported from New South Wales to Norfolk Island, and Remaining there in August 1844. CSO5: Correspondence of the Colonial Secretary, 1837–41. CSO16: Correspondence of the Colonial Secretary (Record Branch), 1841–45. CSO20: Correspondence of the Colonial Secretary (‘A’ Series), 1845–47. CSO24: Correspondence of the Colonial Secretary, 1847–55. EC4: Minutes of Proceedings of the Executive Council, 1825–80. MM62, vols. 1-41: Correspondence of the Comptroller-General of Convicts, 1843–69. MM63: Diary of the Voyage of the William Jardine by Surgeon John Campbell, 1850. NS1004: Correspondence, Price Family, 1835–75. SC32: Minutes of Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Various Centres, incl. Norfolk Island, 1824–47. |
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Origin of Historical Sources
| Historical records of criminal prosecution and administration of punishment, including transportation and penal colonies. |
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Characteristic of Sources
| Abbreviations used in dataset, based on historical information in sources: 1d – one day (etc) 1m – one month (etc) 1w – one week (etc) Absc – absconding Admon – admonished Auth - authority AWOL – absent Ch – chains Comm - Commandant DC – disorderly conduct Disch – discharged Disresp - disrespect DO – disobedience DS – divine service Ext – extension FP – fellow prisoner Illeg - illegible Imp lang – improper language Insol – insolence/insolent Insubord – insubordination HL – hard labour HLC – hard labour in chains Misc – misconduct MO – Medical Officer ND/NoD – neglect of duty PH - passholder Poss – possessing/possession of QS – quarter sessions Rep/repr - reprimanded Recc – recommended RTW – refusing/refusal to work Sett – Settlement (i.e. Kingston) SC – solitary confinement Sol - solitary ST – separate treatment SC in conjunction with Hobart or Launceston – usually Supreme Court Transf – transferred w/o – without v. £3 – valued at £3 (etc) add – additional comm – communicating imp - imprisonment GG - gaol gang hosp - hospital MH – Macquarie Harbour NOD – neglect of duty PA – Port Arthur PM – Port Macquarie rec- receiving recc – recommended st - stealing WOP – without permission AM: Alexander Maconochie CS: Colonial Secretary JTM: James Morisset PSC: Principal Superintendent of Convicts 250m – 250 marks (etc) AWOP – absent without permission CL – careless labour D Richmond – Duke of Richmond FOW – fined on ward (i.e. collective fine of marks for an entire ward if one of their number transgressed) LF – Lady Franklin Misb - misbehaviour NRH – nuisance at rear of huts RTB – refusing to bathe SOMMF – share of mess-mate’s fine (if one of his mess-mate’s transgressed and was fined in marks, his group would also be fined) Susp – suspected/suspicion |
