Conduct Registers of Male Convicts Arriving on Non-Convict Ships or Locally Convicted 1840-1893

Most of the men in these records were transported from other colonies, but some were previously free men locally convicted and sentenced to transportation. In this sense “transportation” continued long after it ceased from the United Kingdom. The last volume becomes virtually a gaol record, with term of imprisonment substituted for term of transportation. These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives