Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Legal Status Text
Department
Authorized form of name
CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT
Other form(s) of name
Description identifier
AU WA A442
Description area
Dates of existence
1850-01-01 - 1887-04-30
History
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.
Places
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
AU WA A416 - CASUARINA PRISON (1991-06-07 -)
Identifier of the related entity
AU WA A416
Category of the relationship
Succeeding
Dates of the relationship
1991-01-01 -
Description of relationship
Related entity
AU WA A220 - FREMANTLE PRISON (1855-01-01 - 1991-10-31)
Identifier of the related entity
AU WA A220
Category of the relationship
Succeeding
Dates of the relationship
1855-01-01 - 1991-01-01
Description of relationship
Related unit of description
Series S691 - LISTS - CONVICTS
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1850-01-01 - 1853-01-01
Related unit of description
Series S1811 - REGISTERS - CORRESPONDENCE
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1853-01-01 - 1889-12-31
Related unit of description
Series S1817 - LETTERBOOKS - SHERIFF AND INSPECTOR OF PRISONS
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1885-01-01 - 1889-12-31
Related unit of description
Series S1818 - LETTERBOOKS - COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF PRISONS
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1850-01-25 - 1889-12-31
Related unit of description
Series S1819 - INDEXES
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1882-01-01 - 1889-12-31
Related unit of description
Series S1821 - RECORDS OF RATIONS AND LUXURY ISSUES
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1879-01-01 - 1889-12-31
Related unit of description
Series S2334 - CERTIFICATES - CONDITIONAL PARDON, TICKETS OF LEAVE
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
-
Related unit of description
Series S1866 - COMPTROLLER-GENERAL'S DESPATCH BOOKS
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1858-01-01 - 1889-12-31
Related unit of description
Series S847 - OCCURRENCE BOOKS
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1854-04-23 - 1870-01-01
Related unit of description
Series S851 - RETURNS - MT ELIZA DEPOT
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1857-11-05 - 1868-05-15
Related unit of description
Series S1135 - REGISTER - EXPIREES AND CONDITIONAL PARDONS
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1899-12-30 -
Related unit of description
Series S1136 - LISTS - PENSIONERS
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1899-12-30 -
Related unit of description
Series S1137 - CORRESPONDENCE
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1853-08-15 - 1859-11-16
Related unit of description
Series S1138 - LISTS - CONVICTS OF GOOD CONDUCT
Role
Creation
Description of relationship
Dates of relationship
1899-12-30 -
Control area
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Final
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Sources
Archivist's notes
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.