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Convicts and the British colonies in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalIn 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
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A Guide to Family History in Willoughby Library (website Making multicultural Australia )L.H.319.44New (Name Index Card Catalogue) Census of 1841 :Collectors Books (includes Port Phillip) Microfilm (Name Index Card Catalogue) Census 1891: Collectors Books (incomplete - 2 reels - entries relevant to Parish of Willoughby) Microfilm (Street and ...
'Lost in NSW Land Records' will be held in the Dixson Room at the State Library of NSW on Saturday & Sunday, 4-5 November 2006, from 10am to 4pm each day. We'll explore the land records held by the Mitchell Library, learn about geographical names, about p...
The dropdown list on the search page shows which churches and burial grounds are currently included, and more details of each are provided in the index's 'search tips'. The search form requires "last name", but other fields are optional - first name, yea...
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Miscellaneous Series: Maritime records, emigrant diaries and letters, convict records, archives of missionary societies, scientific records, papers of politicians and officials; imperial relations, migration, trade, public finance, business, defence, scie...
6 Definition of Family History6 Activity 1: Getting started on the family tree ................................................................... © 2007State Library of Queensland, Family History: December 2007 9 Guidance Research Tips for Queensland N...
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WAINEWRIGHT, THOMAS GRIFFITHS (1794-1847), artist and writer, was born in October 1794 at Richmond near London, the son of Thomas Wainewright and his wife Ann, daughter of the publisher, Ralph Griffiths. The boy was brought up by his grandfather, Dr Ralp...
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<br/>See full catalogue details for this item State Reference Library, Family History Service, LG 2<br/>REF 10/RAV/ DISC 10/936<br/> Convict records, August 2000<br/>by Archives Office of Tasmania, 2000? <br/>See full catalogue details for this item State...
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Miscellaneous Series: Maritime records, emigrant diaries and letters, convict records, archives of missionary societies, scientific records, papers of politicians and officials; imperial relations, migration, trade, public finance, business, defence, scie...
Captain Maconochie's "Bounty For Crime" Secret Society of the Ring I. The Convening of the Ring II. The Falling of the Doom In The Granary Parson Ford's Confessional The Heart-Breaking of Anstey's Bess The Amour of Constable Crake The Pegging-Out of Over...
Ex- officio members Mr Ian Anderson, Visiting Fellow, ANU Centre for UNESCO Ms Jill Collins (Australian National Commission for UNESCO) Secretary- General of the Australian Commission for UNESCO Ms Genevieve Thompson (Department of Communications, Inform...
Commissioned by UNESCO Apia office, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre is developing the UNESCO Pacific Islands Memory of the World Register (see 15 June news item). An informative and intriguing map showing documentary heritage inscribed on the Inte...
The Australian Memory of the World Register is a selective list of Australia's significant documentary heritage. (*) Asterisked items have also been accepted onto the Memory of the World International Programme. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peo...
Captain Maconochie's "Bounty For Crime" Secret Society of the Ring I. The Convening of the Ring II. The Falling of the Doom In The Granary Parson Ford's Confessional The Heart-Breaking of Anstey's Bess The Amour of Constable Crake The Pegging-Out of Over...
State Records periodically conducts short surveys for information gathering purposes on records issues and practices. In early March a number of records management courses will be held at the Western Sydney Records Centre, Kingswood - including Records M...
The earliest records held by State Records relating to the French are contained in the Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825. Colonial Secretary, Main series of letters received, NRS 905: List of former French convicts from New Caledonia residing in NSW...
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