Identity area
Reference code
AU WA S5072
Title
MISCELLANEOUS VOLUMES (V SERIES)
Date(s)
- 1850-01-01 - 1933-12-31 (Accumulation)
Level of description
Series
Medium
Status
Context area
Name of creator
AU WA A442 - CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT
(1850-01-01 - 1887-04-30)
Administrative 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.
Repository
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Miscellaneous volumes of the Convict Establishment.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open