The Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867 database contains the details of some 123,000 convicts who were transported to the various Australian colonies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867 database contains the details of some 123,000 convicts who were transported to the various Australian colonies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
These records contain details of 123,000 convicts tried in England, Scotland and Wales. A small number of Irish convicts are included.
The amount of information listed varies, but the convict transportation registers usually include a combination of the following information about your ancestor:
Additional comments handwritten upon the original record are also included.
If you cannot find your ancestor in these transportation registers, try searching for them in the other Australian convict records Findmypast has, linked to in the Useful Links & Resources section.
If you know that your ancestor ran into legal trouble while in England and Wales and cannot find them in this collection, you can also search Findmypast’s large collection of criminal records covering England and Wales: England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935, which includes over three million criminal records.