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==Online Resources==
==Online Resources==
===Western Australia===
===Western Australia===
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1180 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868] Index ($)
*[http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/australia-convict-conditional-and-absolute-pardons-1791-1867 Australia Convict Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1791-1867] Index ($)
*[https://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/item/4417 Fremantle, Western Australia Prison Convict Database] Index
*[https://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/item/4417 Fremantle, Western Australia Prison Convict Database] Index
*'''1846-1930''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60668 Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930] at Ancestry, Index ($)
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1177 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788] Index ($)
*'''1848-1900''' {{FSC|237756|item|disp=General register of convicts, 1848-1900}} at FamilySearch, images.
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1178 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Second Fleet, 1789-1790] Index ($)
*'''1850-1862''' {{FSC|237829|item|disp=Character book register, 1850-1862}} at FamilySearch, images.
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1179 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791] Index ($)
*'''1852-1868''' {{FSC|234425|item|disp=Printed list of convicts, 1852-1868}} at FamilySearch, images.
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60668 Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930] Index ($)
*'''1856-1858''' {{FSC|234421|item|disp=Register of reconvicted prisoners, 1856-1859}} at FamilySearch, images.
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5517 Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868] Index ($)
*'''1856-1861''' {{FSC|234414|item|disp=Ticket of leave register, 1856-1861}} at FamilySearch, images.
===Australia===
*'''1861-1863''' {{FSC|234417|item|disp=Probationer register, 1861-1863}} at FamilySearch, images.
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1251 Australia List of Convicts with Particulars, 1788-1842], ($), index .  
 
*[http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/australia-convict-conditional-and-absolute-pardons-1791-1867 Australia Convict Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1791-1867], ($), index.
==Finding Records==
*[http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/australia-convict-ships-1786-1849 Australia Convict Ships 1786-1849], ($), index.
===Archives===
*[http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/australia-convict-tickets-of-leave-1824-1874 Australia Convict Tickets Of Leave 1824-1874], ($), index.  
'''State Records Office of Western Australia'''<br>
*[http://members.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/dps/1stflt.htm Australia's First Fleet]
25 Francis Street<br>
*[http://members.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/dps/2ndflt.htm Australia's Second Fleet]
PERTH WA 6000<br>
*[http://members.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/dps/3rdflt.txt Australia's Third Fleet]
Australia<br>
*[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/convicts Convict transportation registers database]
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*[http://findingaids.nationalarchives.ie/index.php?browse=true&category=18&subcategory=147 Ireland-Australia transportation database, National Archives of Ireland]
Telephone: 61 8 9427 3600<br>
*[http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts//index.html Convicts to Australia]
Email: sro@sro.wa.gov.au<br>
*[https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/state-records-office-of-western-australia/research-using-state-archives Research using State Archives]
 
*[https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/state-records-office-of-western-australia/convicts Convicts] The State Records Office holds comprehensive sets of records relating to convicts transported to Western Australia between 1850 and 1868.
== Types of Convict Records  ==
=== Tickets of Leave Butts  ===
*'''Tickets of leave''' were issued to convicts having served about half of their sentences with good behavior.  
*These tickets '''allowed convicts to seek employment''' as they wished but '''limited their movement to a certain district''' for the remainder of their sentences.  
*Prior to 1828, bench magistrates granted tickets of leave and approved applications for convicts to marry.  
*The actual ticket of leave was issued to the convict; '''the government retained the ticket of leave butts'''.  
*'''Ticket of leave butts listed the convict’s name, ship, and date of arrival, native place, trade or calling, date and place of trial and sentence, a physical description, and the district to which he or she was confined.'''
 
=== Certificates of Freedom  ===
*A '''certificate of freedom''' was a document stating that a '''convict's sentence had been served''' and was usually given to convicts with a 7, 10 or 14 year sentence or when they received a pardon.
*Convicts with a '''life sentence''' could receive a Pardon, but not a Certificate of Freedom.  
*The Certificate of Freedom number was sometimes '''annotated on the indent or noted on a Ticket of Leave Butt.'''
*The government retained certificates of freedom butts, which were similar to ticket of leave butts.
 
=== Pardons  ===
*Both '''conditional and absolute pardons''' were generally '''granted to convicts with life sentences'''.
*'''Conditional pardons''' required that the ex-convict '''never return to the British Isles''' or his or her pardon would be void.  
*'''Absolute pardons''' allowed an ex-convict to return to the British Isles if he or she wished.
*'''Pardon records''' contain information similar to tickets of leave: the convict’s name, ship, and date of arrival, native place, trade or calling, date and place of trial and sentence, a physical description, and the district to which he or she was confined.'''
 
=== Convict indents  ===
*Convict indents were lists that were made when convicts arrived on transport ships.  
*Information given in indents is similar to that in tickets of leave but also includes a convict’s marital status and number of children and whether the convict was literate.
 
==For Further Reading==
===FamilySearch Library===
Additional sources are listed in the '''FamilySearch Catalog:'''
*{{FSC|Australia, Western Australia - Convict records|subject|subject-id=405930227|disp=Australia, Western Australia - Convict records}}
*{{FSC|Australia, Western Australia - Convict records - Indexes|subject|subject-id=1020276480|disp=Australia, Western Australia - Convict records - Indexes}}


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