Convicts
About 152,000 convicts were sent to eastern colonies of Australia 1788-1853 (mostly to NSW or Tasmania) plus 9,700 convicts were sent to Western Australia 1850-1868. South Australia never directly received convicts (although former convicts moved there).
- Convict indexes in NSW & Colonial Secretary's Papers – http://www.records.nsw.gov.au (select 'Indexes Online')
- Convict Tickets of Leave – http://www.sag.org.au (select 'Databases', then 'NSW Tickets of Leave')
- Convict Transportation Registers Database – http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/convicts/about
- Convict Central – http://www.convictcentral.com/index.html
- Convicts to Tasmania – http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/nameindexes/ (follow hyperlinks to many digital records)
- Convicts to Western Australia – http://www.fremantleprison.com (from 'History' select 'Convict database')
- Convicts, musters & pardons – http://www.ancestry.com.au (some cost)
- Criminals, witnesses & victims (from the Old Bailey Records) – http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
- Female Factory Research Group – http://www.femalefactory.com.au/FFRG/
- Female Factory (Cascades, Tasmania) – http://www.femalefactory.com.au/
- Female Factory (Parramatta) – http://www.parragirls.org.au/
- Female Factory (second factory at Parramatta) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jray/gordon/index.htm
- Irish convicts – http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/search01.html
- Irish Wattle – http://irishwattle.com/ (also subscribe to their newsletter)
- National Archives UK Convict Sources – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=253&j=1
- National Archives UK Podcasts (large files, audio lectures) – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/default.htm?WT.lp=fh-pods
Transportation to Australia
Prison: five hundred years behind bars
Catching Victorian and Edwardian criminals on paper
Criminal ancestors: trial records at The National Archives - Women Convicts in Service – http://www.ulladulla.info/historian/WC1798.htm