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Tasmanian Catalogue of Fiche, Films & CDs

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This catalogue is divided into the following categories.
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Births, Deaths & Marriages.

Cemeteries.
        New

Census.


Convicts.              New

Directories.

Electoral Rolls.
Genealogy.

Government Gazettes.       New

Immigration.
                     New

Miscellaneous.
                  New

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)

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)
New
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)

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CENSUS.

Early Tasmanian Census, 1842- 1857,  (See Guide 29)
(Surname Index on Institute Catalogue computer via. Favourites, or ask a library assistant for access.)
Surname Index also accessable by the link to Tasmanian Archives.
(Film)

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  CONVICT  RECORDS.

New
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)
New
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


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”        1825-1836
3.    Woolwich & Devonport.
      Hulks “Captivity”, "Ganymede” & "Discovery”        1821-1833
4.    Woolwich:
      Hulks “Prudentia”, “Retribution” & “Justitia”        1803-1836.
( Film Gen 17)

AJCP M4880. Registers of convicts on hulks in Woolwich. (Pieces 4-7)
4.    Woolwich:
       Hulks “Prudentia”, “Retribution" & “Justitia”        1803-1836
5.    Index to “Justitia”
6.    Index to “Retribution”
7.    Woolwich:
       Hulks  “Retribution” & "Bellepheron”    1802-1834.
(Film Gen 18)

AJCP M4881. Registers of convicts on hulks in Woolwich & Portsmouth. (Pieces 7-9)
7.    Woolwich:
      Hulks  “Retribution” & "Bellepheron”    1802-1834
8.    Portsmouth:
       Hulks  “Portland" & “Captivity”        1802-1836
9.    Portsmouth:
       Hulks  “Leviathan”, “Laurel”, “York” & “Hardy”    1805-1836.
( Film Gen 19)

AJCP M4882.   Registers of convicts on hulks in Portsmouth.    (Piece 9)
9.   Portsmouth:
      Hulks  “Leviathan”, “Laurel”, “York” & “Hardy”        1805-1836.
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 Gen 20)

AJCP M4883.  Letter books for Woolwich & Portsmouth.     (Pieces 13-16).
13.  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 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 Rogues " & "A World Away ".
(See IRELAND (Co. DOWN)  MICROFICHE).
(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)

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DIRECTORIES.

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

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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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