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Tasmania
Catalogue of Fiche, Film and CDs

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This catalogue is divided into the following categories.
Click on the link to go direct to your area of interest.
  Births, Deaths & Marriages

Cemeteries


Census


Convicts

Directories

Electoral Rolls
Genealogy

Government Gazettes

Immigration


Miscellaneous


Newspapers      

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BIRTHS,  DEATHS  and  MARRIAGES

Birth & Baptism records.    1803-1899.
(Film)
Births index.   1900-1905.
(fiche)
Death &  Burial records.    1803-1933.
(Film)
Deaths index.   1900-1919.
(fiche)
Marriage records.   1803-1899.
(Film)
Marriages index.   1900-1919.
(fiche)
Pioneers Index (births, deaths and marriages).   1803-1899.
Also on CD.
(fiche)
CD
Federation Index - Births 1900-1909, Marriages, Deaths 1900-1930.   
(CD)
(fiche)
Miscellaneous Parish Records 1837-1953.
This disc is an index to miscellaneous parish and other records from Hobart and country
Tasmania, including St. David’s Hobart and the Ross District, Dorset Mission, Port Esperance and Brighton.

(CD)


CEMETERIES

Carr Villa Cemetery (Launceston) Memorial Park & Crematorium Burial Records.    1905-1989.
(fiche)
Carr Villa Cemetery (Launceston) Memorial Park & Crematorium Burial Records.    1905-2001.
(CD)
Cornelian Bay (Hobart) Cemetery.    to 1991.
(see also  Southern  Regional Cemetery Trust Burials & Cremations )
(fiche)
Lilydale General Cemetery.
(fiche)
Nabowla Cemetery.
(fiche)
Queenborough Cemetery, Hobart.
(fiche)
St. Georges Anglican New Ground Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions.  
(insert CD 1149)
Southern Regional Cemetery Trust Burials & Cremations.   1872-1994.
(see also  Cornelian Bay, Hobart )
(fiche)
Tombstone and Memorial Inscriptions of Tasmania. ( TAMIOT)
(fiche)
Tombstone and Memorial Inscriptions of Tasmania. ( TAMIOT)  [Second edition, 1999]
(fiche)


CENSUS

Early Tasmanian Census, 1842- 1857 (See Guide 29)
Surname Index is accessable by the link to Tasmanian Archives
(Film)

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CONVICT  RECORDS

1. Assignment lists of Convicts from Ireland to Tasmania. 1840-1851.
2. Assignment lists of Convicts from Ireland to Tasmania. 1840- 1843.
Miscellaneous Convict lists, 1838-1845 with some NSW convict papers, 1837-1848.
Convict ship assignment lists. Name, where convicted, when and term; sometimes includes age,
height, trade, native place and how appropriated.
(Tasmanian Film)
1. Assignment lists of Convicts from Ireland to Tasmania. 1843-1844.
2. Assignment lists of Convicts from Ireland, England and Scotland etc. to Tasmania. 1845-1851.
Miscellaneous Convict lists, 1838-1845 with some NSW convict papers, 1837-1848.
Convict ship assignment lists. Name, where convicted, when and term; sometimes includes age,
height, trade, native place and how appropriated.
(Tasmanian Film)
Assignment Lists of Convicts from Pentonville & Millbank Prisons.  (CY1195-1205)
1821 – 1839
1840 - 1843
1844
1845
1846 – 1851
1852 – 1854.

(Film Eng Gen 41)
(Film Eng Gen 42)
(Film Eng Gen 43)
(Film Eng Gen 44)
(Film Eng Gen 45)
(Film Eng Gen 46)
Colonial Collection.  1802 - 1923.
(CD)
More Tasmanian convicts: papers re convict ships.  1814-1845.
(fiche)
Colonial Index - Tasmania & Norfolk Island.  1816 - 1889.
Also on CD.
(fiche)
(CD)
Convict Records, Archives Office of Tasmania.   1804-1853.
Also on CD.
(fiche)
(CD)
Convict Records, Lists of Prisoners at Campbelltown Jail.   1832 - 1854.
(Film)
Convict Records,  Richmond Police Office, Court & Gaol.  1828 - 1851.
(Film)
Convict Hulk Registers.     AJCP M4879-4883.
A series of 16 volumes on 5 films of the Hulk Registers and Letter Books 1802-1849.
Please note, not all of the convicts listed will have been transported.
The films are continuous i.e. item 4 (Woolwich) appears on film Gen 17 and continues on Gen 18.
Convicts Hulk Registers.     AJCP M4879-4883.
       A series of 16 volumes on 5 films of the Hulk Registers and Letter Books 1802 - 1849.
       Please note, not all of the convicts listed will have been transported.
       These Films will be found in the English film cabinets in the library.
       AJCP M4879. Registers of convicts on hulks in Chatham, Woolwich & Devonport. (Pieces 1-4)
             1.    Chatham:  Hulks 'Ganymede,' 'Dolphin,' 'Cumberland.'  1820 - 1833.
             2.    Chatham:  Hulks 'Fortitude' & 'Euryalus.'    1825 - 183.6
             3.    Woolwich & Devonport:  Hulks  'Captivity,' 'Ganymede' & 'Discovery.'    1821 - 1833.
             4.    Woolwich:  Hulks 'Prudentia, 'Retribution” &   'Justitia.'   1803-1836. (Part)
(Film England Gen 17)
       AJCP M4880. Registers of convicts on hulks in Woolwich. (Pieces 4-7)
             4.    (Contid.) Woolwich: Hulks 'Prudentia,' 'Retribution' & 'Justitia.' 1803 - 1836
             5.    Index to 'Justitia.'
             6.    Index to 'Retribution.'             
             7.    Woolwich:  Hulks 'Retribution' & 'Bellepheron.'   1802 - 1834.
(Film England Gen 18)
       AJCP M4881. Registers of convicts on hulks in Woolwich & Portsmouth. (Pieces 7-9)
             7.    (Continued)   Woolwich:   Hulks  'Retribution' & 'Bellepheron.'    1802 - 1834
             8.    Portsmouth:  Hulks  'Portland' 'Captivity.'    1802 - 1836
             9.    Portsmouth:  Hulks  'Leviathan,'  'Laurel,' 'York'  & 'Hardy.'    1805 - 1836.
(Film England Gen 19)
       AJCP M4882.   Registers of convicts on hulks in Portsmouth.    (Piece 9)
             9.    (Continued)  Portsmouth:  Hulks  'Leviathan,'   'Laurel,'  'York' &  'Hardy.'  1805 - 1836.
       AJCP M4882.   Letter books for Chatham, Woolwich & Devonport.  (Pieces 10-13)
             10.   Letter book of  'Euryalus.'     1837 - 1843.
             11.   Letter Book of  'Fortitude.'     1837 - 1843.
             12.   Letter Book of  'Ganymede' &  'Warrior.'    1837 - 1844.
             13.   Letter Book of  'Justitia.'    1837 - 1839
(Film England Gen 20)
       AJCP M4883.  Letter books for Woolwich & Portsmouth.     (Pieces 13-16).
             13.  (Continued)  Letter Book of   'Justitia.'     1837 - 1839.
             14.  Letter Book of  'Leviathan.'      1837 - 1839.
             15.  Letter Book of  'York.'     1837 - 1843.
             16.  Convict Hulk Establishment Letter Book.    1847 - 1849.
(Film England Gen 21)
Convicts Miscellany (Assignment Lists of 108 ships).   1821-1854.
(fiche)
Convicts received at Newgate Gaol Bristol.
Quarter Sessions:
Gaol Delivery Fiats.  1741-1828.    Gives details of crime, sentence etc.
(Film Gls 26)
Convicts Transported from Cheshire, Essex, London & Middlesex
(see Quarter Session Records for the respective English Counties)
(Film)
AJCP Film M1638.
1. Calendars of prisoners in Castle Gaol, Oxford, tried at the Assizes 1775-1844.
2. Calendars of prisoners for trial at Oxford Quarter Sessions and at the Assizes, 1822-1840.
3. Calendars of prisoners for trial at Oxford Quarter Sessions and at the Assizes, 1841-1850.
Broadsides and Newspaper Articles on Trials and Executions various dates between 1775 and 1863.
(Film Oxf 2)
ACP Film M1639.
1. A Calendar of the Prisoners for Trial at Oxford Quarter Sessions and the Assizes 1851-1853.
Private papers:
Records deposited by Gillett Bros. (Appertaining to New Zealand property).
Records of Morrell, Peel & Gamlen, Solicitors. (Appertaining to New Zealand).
Records deposited by Slater, Son & More, solicitors of Stratford upon Avon with reference to W.A.
2. Register of Convicts transported to Maria Island 1815-1832.
( Film Oxf 3)
County Down convicts My Irish RoguesA World Away.
(See Ireland   - Co. Down  fiche)
(fiche)
More Tasmanian convicts: papers re convict ships.    1814-1845.
(fiche)
England- Hue & Cry or Police Gazette.  (for Escaped Convicts) 1797-1840 (see England General)
(CD)
Records of Edinburgh (Calton) Prison.    1852-1874.
(The Film SCT 22 is in the Scotland General cabinet)       
List of Convicts held for transportation in the Edinburgh prison.        
Information given:  No., Name, Age, Crime, Where Tried, Sentence, Chaplains remarks, Literacy,
Character, Health, other Convictions.       
(Film Sct 22)


DIRECTORIES

1834 Melville's Directory of Tasmania.
(fiche)
1867 McPhail's  Directory  of  Tasmania.
(CD)
1904 Wise's Post Office Directory.
(CD)
1906 - 1958 Telephone Exchange, list of subscribers.
(fiche)
1934 Wise's Post Office Directory.
(fiche)


ELECTORAL  ROLLS

(See Census above)
Electoral Roll, Commonwealth.   1903.
(Film)
Electoral Rolls at Federation (also NSW & WA)  1903.
(CD)
Electoral Rolls.  1856, 1861 - 1866.
(Film)
Electoral Roll, Federal.   2000.
(fiche)

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GENEALOGY

People of Norfolk Island & Van Diemen's Land and their families. 1788-1820.
(Donohoe Publication)
(CD)
Tasmania, the People and their Families.  1803-1820.   (Donohoe Publication)
(CD)


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