Genealogy Websites
Ancestry
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980
London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1921
National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1866
New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary’s Papers, 1788-1856
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842
Online Family Trees
Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms 1564-1950
Findmypast
England and Wales Crime and Punishment, 1770-1935
England, Births & Baptisms
Greater London Burial Index
London Apprenticeship Abstracts, 1442-1850
Middlesex, Brompton Cemetery Records
Thames and Medway Marriages
Westminster Marriages, St Clement Danes
Other Websites
Biographical Database of Australia, http://www.bda-online.org.au/
Convict Records, https://convictrecords.com.au/
Convicts to Australia, Life on a Convict Ship, http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/shiplife.html
Free Settler or Felon? https://www.jenwilletts.com/
Merchant Networks, http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/
Libraries Tasmania, http://www.libraries.tas.gov.au/
Prisoners’ Letters to the Bank of England, 1781-1827. Ed. Deirdre Palk. London: London Record Society, 2007. British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol42
The Blackheath Connection, http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/blackheath/
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/
Online Newspapers
British Newspapers (Findmypast)
Bristol Mirror
Bury and Norwich Post
Caledonian Mercury
Durham County Mercury
Hereford Journal
Leeds Mercury
Lloyds List
London Courier and Evening Gazette
Morning Post
Oxford Journal
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser
The London Gazette
The New Monthly Magazine
TROVE
The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
Publications
Alexander, Alison, ed, Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory, Convict Women’s Press, Hobart, 2014
Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships, Library of Australian History, North Sydney, 1988
Evans, George William, A Geographical, Historical and Topographical Description of Van Diemen’s Land with Important Hints to Emigrants etc., J. and C. Adlard, 23, Bartholomew Close, London, 1822
Historical Records of Australia, The Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1917
Reid, Thomas, Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1822
Robinson, Portia, The Women of Botany Bay : A reinterpretation of the role of women in the origins of Australia society, Macquarie University, Sydney, 1988
Slater, John, A Description of Sydney, Parramatta, Newcastle, & Settlements in New South Wales with Some Account of the Manners and Employment of the Convicts, etc. Sutton and Son, Bridlesmith Gate, 1819
Tait, Noel, The Heritage of Naval Surgery, ADF Health, Vol 12, no 1, 2001
Introduction
Preparing for the Journey
The Voyage
The Arrival
Assignment
Statistical Overview
Profiles