Corporate body

Department

CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT

AU WA A442

1850-01-01 - 1887-04-30

In 1850, a Board of Directors of convict prisons was set up in England. Fremantle Prison was built as a convict establishment by the British government in the 1850s as a result of the decision taken in 1849 to transport British felons to Western Australia.

The last convict arrived in Western Australia in 1868 and Fremantle Prison was transferred to the colonial government in 1886.

The transfer of the Imperial Convict Establishment and the Imperial Invalid Depot was completed on 30 April 1887.

AU WA A220 - FREMANTLE PRISON (1855-01-01 - 1991-10-31)

AU WA A2237 - ALBANY CONVICT DEPOT (1852-01-01 - 1872-12-31)

Series S1817 - LETTERBOOKS: SHERIFF AND INSPECTOR OF PRISONS

Series S1818 - LETTERBOOKS: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF PRISONS (C SERIES)

Series S1819 - CORRESPONDENCE INDEXES AND REGISTERS

Series S1821 - RECORDS OF RATIONS AND LUXURY ISSUES

Series S2334 - CERTIFICATES - CONDITIONAL PARDON, TICKETS OF LEAVE

Series S847 - OCCURRENCE BOOKS AND WARDERS' JOURNALS (OCC. SERIES)

Series S1135 - REGISTER - EXPIREES AND CONDITIONAL PARDONS

Series S1136 - LISTS - PENSIONERS

Series S1137 - SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE [RETIREMENT OF SUPERINTENDANT]

Series S5056 - CONVICT REGISTERS (R SERIES)

Series S5057 - CASUAL SICK REGISTERS (CS SERIES)

Series S701 - MEDICAL REGISTERS (M SERIES)

Series S5072 - MISCELLANEOUS VOLUMES (V SERIES)

Series S5073 - RECEIPTS AND DISCHARGES (R&D SERIES)

Series S5074 - GENERAL DUTIES REGISTERS (GD SERIES)

Series S5075 - STAMP BOOKS (S SERIES)

Series S693 - SUPERINTENDENT'S ORDERS (SO SERIES)

Series S5086 - NOMINAL ROLL [PERTH TOWN HALL]

Series S5088 - CONVICT DESCRIPTION LISTS

Series S691 - NOMINAL LISTS OF CONVICTS

Series S5089 - RECORDS - VARIOUS

Final

The convict records of Western Australia were entered on to the Memory of the World Register in 2003. In 2015, the SRO entered into an agreement with Ancestry.com to digitise and index these records.