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- 1850-08-25 - (Creation)
- 1850-08-25 - 1874-04-22 (Accumulation)
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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.
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Records kept by the Superintendent of the Convict Establishment at Fremantle.
The volumes record discharges and transfers of prisoners, orders relating to officers (promotions, resignations, reprimands, etc.) and the orders are initialed by (presumably) the Superintendent. Some volumes include an index in which the names of officers, prisoners, depots or other institutions concerned in the orders are listed.
Cons 4190/1 includes copies of letters and memos written by the Superintendent between 7.1.1871 and 1.2.1871.
Cons 4326 contains orders sent from the Superintendent to the officer in charge of the Cookhouse 1952 - 1966.
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Archivist's note
Copies: Microfilm registers for Cons. 1156, items SO 1 - 14, are held by the State Records Office of Western Australia