Conduct records of male and female convicts arriving under the ‘probation system’ CON33 & CON41
Format
Top left hand corner:
- name
- length of sentence
Terms used
- “Tried” = Place of trial – Gaol Delivery, Assizes, Court of Justiciary, Central Criminal Court, Quarter Sessions
- “Embarked” = date of sailing
- “Arrived” = date of arrival at Hobart
- marital status
- “Stated this offence” = convict’s statement of what he was transported for, includes any previous offences
- “Hulk Report” = behaviour on ships used as prisons in England
- “Surgeons Report” Doctor’s report of convict’s health and behaviour during the voyage.
- “Description” M:H = medium height; M:W = medium width; Bro = Brown
- “Marks” = tattoos, scars and other distinguishing marks
- “Station of gang” = Town in which convict is employed
- “Class” Probation Pass Holder [P.P.H.] – 3 classes of pass were issued varying in degrees of restriction and wages.
- “Offences and sentences” = conduct in the colony.
- Date of offence – place of employment or employer
- offence – sentence – magistrate iinitials
- “vide Lieut Gov’s Memo/Decision” [these memos have not survived].
- “Remarks” refer to place and name of employer and any notable events during convict’s period of transportation, e.g. capture of a bushranger.
- “On strength” = still within the system, in this case, the convict system.
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