Convict Dept.: Warrants, memos & orders to remove prisoners to P.A., other stns, P.B. Hobart & Gaol Ltn. 1856-59; Point Puer bench books extracts 1835-41; Coal Mines lttrs 1841-2; Cascades rtrns 1841-2; P.A. Dockyard lttrs 1843; Slopen Is. lttrs & rtrns

TAS PAPERS 134 Microfilm roll no. CY 3079
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4 Col Sec Office 21/1/1856 warrant to remove William Shaw to P.A.
6 Col Sec Office 14/7/1856 warrant John Smith to P.A.
8 Col Sec Office 19/6/1857 warrant John Sewell to P.A.
10 Col Sec Office 11/6/1857 warrant George Smith to P.A.
12 Col Sec Office 10/5/1859 memo to remove William Wood to Inv. Depot, P.A.
13A Col Sec Office 3/12/1857 warrant James Moor to P.A. (located at end of film - missed during filming)
14 Col Sec Office 3/12/1857 note James Moor
14 Col Sec Office 17/11/1857 warrant William Jones to P.A.
15 Col Sec Office 8/8/1857 warrant John Jones to P.A.
16 Col Sec Office 29/3/1857 warrant William Shaw to P.A.
17 Col Sec Office 11/5/1857 warrant John Mitchell to P.A.
18 Col Sec Office 5/3/1857 warrant to remove Edward Froud to Impression Bay
19 Col Sec Office 349715 warrant to remove Nathan Wilkinson to Imp. Bay
21 Col Sec Office 28/4/1857 warrant Francis Mount to P.A.
23 Col Sec Office 26/5/1857 warrant Francis McGhee/McGee to P.A.
24 Col Sec Office 25/3/1857 warrant George Smith to P.A.
26 Col Sec Office 3/6/1857 warrant George Milton to P.A.
27 Col Sec Office 2/8/1855 warrant George Milton to P.A.
28 Col Sec Office 17/11/1827 warrant William Mansfield to P.A.
29 Col Sec Office 27/3/1857 warrant James Tuck to P.A.
30 Col Sec Office 6/6/1857 warrant James Maxwell to P.A.
31 Col Sec Office 18/5/1857 warrant James Maxwell to P.A.
32 Col Sec Office 21/3/1856 warrant James Maxwell to P.A.
33 Col Sec Office 19/7/1856 warrant James Maxwell to P.A.
34 Col Sec Office warrant to remove James Maxwell to P.B., Hobart
35 Col Sec Office 9/4/1855 warrant James Maxwell to P.A.
40 Col Sec Office 31/3/1857 warrant John Davis to P.A.
41 Col Sec Office 20/7/1857 warrant John Wormald to P.A.
41 Col Sec Office 20/7/1857 warrant William Preston to P.A.
42 Col Sec Office 9/3/1857 warrant Charles Wellings to P.A.
43 Col Sec Office 30/6/1857 warrant John Woodcock to P.A.
44 Col Sec Office 3/7/1857 warrant John Williams to P.A.
45 Col Sec Office 11/6/1857 warrant to remove David Johnson to Imp. Bay
46 Col Sec Office 14/7/1857 warrant James Darkin to P.A.
47 Col Sec Office 27/7/1857 warrant James William Drew to P.A.
48 Col Sec Office 11/7/1857 warrant to remove James Wm Drew to P.B., Hobart
49 Col Sec Office 20/6/1857 warrant Joseph Davis to P.A.
50 Col Sec Office 11/6/1857 warrant to remove John Burridge to Imp. Bay
51 Col Sec Office 18/7/1857 warrant to remove William Brookbank to P.B., Hob.
52 Col Sec Office 20/6/1857 warrant George Smith to P.A.
53 Col Sec Office 8/7/1857 warrant William Burns to P.A.
54 Col Sec Office 20/7/1857 warrant William Stone to P.A.
55 Col Sec Office 18/7/1857 warrant to remove James Sweeney to P.B., Hob.
56 Col Sec Office 20/7/1857 warrant Owen Sullivan to P.A.
57 Col Sec Office 25/4/1857 warrant Thomas Slater to P.A.
58 Col Sec Office 30/7/1857 warrant John Sullivan to Invalid Depot, P.A.
59 Col Sec Office 22/1/1859 memo Henry Frew to P.A.
59 Col Sec Office 22/1/1859 memo John Thompson to P.A.
60 Col Sec Office 28/1/1857 warrant Henry Green to P.A.
61 Col Sec Office 27/1/1857 warrant Thomas Graham to P.A.
62 Col Sec Office 20/4/1857 warrant Thomas Jones to P.A.
63 Col Sec Office 9/3/1857 warrant William Jones to P.A.
64 Col Sec Office 20/6/1857 warrant Henry Jones to P.A.
65 Col Sec Office 15/5/1857 warrant James Glover to P.A.
66 Col Sec Office 12/6/1857 warrant James Dickenson to P.A.
67 Col Sec Office 16/9/1857 warrant William Downes to P.A.
68 Col Sec Office 15/5/1857 warrant William Downes to P.A.
70 Col Sec Office 24/7/1857 warrant John Dickford to P.A.
71 Col Sec Office 11/5/1857 warrant Thomas Oakenfull to P.A.
72 Col Sec Office 24/7/1857 warrant Coleman O'Loughlin to P.A.
73 Col Sec Office 12/6/1857 warrant Richard Weekes to P.A.
74 Col Sec Office 21/4/1858 warrant William Orrin to P.A.
75 Col Sec Office 9/5/1858 warrant Joseph Wharton to P.A.
76 Col Sec Office 2/9/1857 warrant Joseph Wharton to P.A.
77 Col Sec Office 6/9/1857 warrant Joseph Wharton to P.A.
78 Col Sec Office 29/4/1857 warrant Joseph Wharton to P.A.
79 Col Sec Office 6/11/1858 warrant Malachi Durr to P.A.
80 Col Sec Office 18/9/1858 warrant Robert McKeever to P.A.
82 Col Sec Office 9/8/1855 memo re evidence John Barnes
84 Col Sec Office 9/8/1855 trial notes John Barnes
84 Col Sec Office 9/8/1855 trial notes George Black
85 Col Sec Office 3/7/1858 memo evidence Barnes & Black
88 Col Sec Office 10/6/1858 warrant Thomas Brown to Invalid Depot, P.A.
90 Col Sec Office 31/1/1859 warrant John Williams to P.A.
91 Col Sec Office 4/2/1859 warrant William Downes to P.A.
93 Col Sec Office 3/1/1859 warrant Joseph Smith to P.A.
95 Col Sec Office 13/12/1859 warrant to remove James McKenzie to P.B., Hobart
97 Col Sec Office 27/12/1860 application William Halliday to Invalid Depot, P.A.
99 Col Sec Office 14/1/1865 warrant Abraham Wolf to P.A.
100 Col Sec Office 15/5/1834 removal docket John Johnson
102 Port Arthur 7/7/1834 Booth Col Sec making slop shoes
106 Coal Mines 28/5/1835 bench book extract for 6 convicts
108 Point Puer 30/5/1835 bench book extracts for 31 boys
122 Coal Mines 18/7/1835 bench book extract for 2 convicts
123 Point Puer 16/7/1835 bench book extracts for 32 boys
133 Eaglehawk Neck 3/6/1835 bench book extract for 1 convict
134 Point Puer 12/6/1835 bench book extracts for 69 boys
147 Point Puer 1/10/1835 memo on 2 boys
148 Point Puer bench book extract for 4 boys
149 Point Puer 5/10/1835 memos on 78 boys
153A Point Puer 26/10/1835 memo at end of film - missed during filming
168 Point Puer 3/1/1837 extracts from records for 786 boys
246 Port Arthur 15/12/1838 nominal list of 4 patients at P.A. Hospital
248 Port Arthur 14/12/1838 Boyd Principal Supt recommendation Edward Bell to Invalid Gaol
250 Port Arthur 6/8/1859 Clarke Boyd William Clarke to resign as constable
253 Point Puer 2/9/1839 extracts from records for 11 boys
258 Port Arthur O'Halloran Booth Doctors Brock & Casey
260 Port Arthur 8/10/1859 Smith Boyd appointment as attendant to insane
263 Port Arthur 30/12/1839 extracts from records for 15 boys
265 Port Arthur 1/2/1842 Hoy Booth boats repaired at P.A. Dockyard Jan. 1842
266 Port Arthur 1/1/1842 Hoy Booth boats repaired at P.A. Dockyard Dec. 1841
267 Port Arthur Hoy account for building gun boat
268 Port Arthur 1/8/1841 Hoy Steam Company labour costs for building Derwent
269 Coal Mines Cook Forster report on mines
272 Coal Mines 19/1/1841 Booth report on boats
273 Coal Mines 13/2/1841 Mahon Booth boats
274 Coal Mines 16/2/1841 Lacey Booth boats
276 Coal Mines 3/3/1841 Miller Booth gardens
277 Coal Mines 2/3/1841 Miller Booth requisition for nails
278 Audit Office, Hobart 15/5/1841 Boyes Booth coals contractor
279 Port Arthur 10/2/1842 Booth note coals contractor
281 Coal Mines 25/6/1841 Butler Booth requisition for school and chapel
282 Coal Mines 22/6/1841 Booth return on 20 convicts
283 Coal Mines 14/7/1841 Hurst Booth getting coal
285 Coal Mines 14/7/1841 Booth nominal list of 25 miners
286 Coal Mines 21/7/1841 Miller Booth supplies
287 Coal Mines 18/7/1841 Miller Booth writer required in office
288 Coal Mines 30/7/1841 Booth extract from record John Westlake
289 Coal Mines 5/8/1841 Miller Booth boring for coal
290 Coal Mines 26/8/1841 Cook Booth brig arrived with Medical Officers & stores
291 Coal Mines 27/8/1841 Miller Booth forwarding sample
291 Coal Mines 1/9/1841 Miller Booth bushrangers (continued on frame 293)
292 Coal Mines 29/8/1841 Booth furniture
293 Coal Mines 1/9/1841 Miller Booth bushrangers (continued from frame 291)
294 Coal Mines 15/9/1841 Low Booth Mr Low's arrival
295 Coal Mines 15/9/1841 Miller Booth application for conditional pardon
296 Coal Mines 18/9/1841 Low Booth application for rations
297 Coal Mines 22/9/1841 Cook Booth rations
298 Coal Mines 2/10/1841 Butler Low horse
299 Coal Mines 2/10/1841 Cook Booth station report
301 Coal Mines 13/10/1841 Cook Booth requisition
302 Coal Mines 15/10/1841 Ewing Booth cheque
303 Coal Mines 10/10/1841 Booth clothing, bricks & mechanics
304 Coal Mines 17/10/1841 Booth Fusilier Master drowned
305 Coal Mines 20/10/1841 Low Booth personal report
306 Coal Mines 21/10/1841 Cook Booth nominal list of officers at Coal Mines
307 Coal Mines 22/10/1841 Morley Booth Fusilier drowning
308 Coal Mines 23/10/1841 Daniels strength of 96th Regt detachments on Tas. Pen.
309 Coal Mines 24/10/1841 Cook Booth Mr Smee's arrival
310 Coal Mines 24/10/1841 Smee Booth Mr Smee's arrival
311 Coal Mines 31/10/1841 Cook Booth rations
312 Coal Mines 27/11/1841 Miller Booth memorial
313 Coal Mines 3/11/1841 Low Booth requisition for books
314 Coal Mines 3/11/1841 Cook Booth mine pump
315 Coal Mines 6/11/1841 Cook Booth pump illustration
316 Coal Mines 10/11/1841 Low Booth Catechist
317 Coal Mines 13/11/1841 Cook soap, slops, etc. (letter continued at end of reel)
317A Coal Mines 13/11/1841 Cook soap, slops, etc. (letter continues at end of reel - missed during filming)
318 Coal Mines 19/11/1841 Low Forster station report
321 Coal Mines 4/11/1841 Morley Forster constable Miller
322 Coal Mines 6/12/1841 Miller Booth 4 absconders
323 Coal Mines 1/12/1841 Cook Booth 2 absconders captured
324 Port Arthur 26/11/1841 Hoy Booth gun boat account
325 Port Arthur 25/1/1842 Hoy Booth materials on hand and used
326 Port Arthur 20/7/1842 Hoy Booth Tamar repairs
327 Coal Mines 4/1/1842 Cook Booth 2 absconders
327 Coal Mines 5/1/1842 Cook Booth salary
328 Coal Mines 6/1/1842 Cook Forster telescope
330 Coal Mines 10/1/1842 Smee Booth rations
331 Coal Mines 21/1/1842 Cart 3 convicts forwarded to P.A.
332 Hobart 28/1/1842 Paterson Booth contractor's vessels detained at Coal Mines
334 Coal Mines 29/1/1842 Cook Booth new staff arrival
335 Coal Mines 31/1/1842 Cook Booth boats, slops, etc.
336 Coal Mines 6/12/1842 Smee Booth Masters of vessels regulations
337 Coal Mines 9/2/1842 nominal list of 18 absconders
339 Coal Mines 9/2/1841 Cumberland Booth bedding for Slopen Is.; Williams
340 Coal Mines 17/2/1842 Cook Booth numbers of men & returns
345 Coal Mines 3/3/1842 Cook Booth station report
346 Coal Mines 17/3/1842 Cook Booth lime; buildings
347 Coal Mines 18/3/1842 Cook Booth Robinson? as servant
348 Coal Mines 21/3/1842 Cook Booth robbery
350 Coal Mines 31/3/1842 Low Booth horse
351 Coal Mines 24/3/1842 Low Booth Catechist
352 Coal Mines 11/4/1842 Cook Booth lamps, pump, steel
353 Coal Mines 22/4/1842 Smee Booth Mr Paterson versus Mr Smee re vessels
359 Coal Mines 27/5/1842 Booth Mr Maberly's arrival; copper
360 Coal Mines 12/5/1842 Cook Booth miner Haines
361 Coal Mines 20/7/1842 Smee Booth paper requisition
361 Coal Mines 6/6/1842 Low Booth robbery from Mr Low
362 Coal Mines 23/7/1842 Cumberland Booth fresh meat
363 Coal Mines 4/8/1842 Cook Booth Dexter to P.A.
364 Coal Mines 18/8/1842 Cumberland appointment
364 Coal Mines 8/8/1842 Cumberland Company charges & payments
365 Coal Mines 29/8/1842 Smee Booth Smith's letter
365 Coal Mines 18/8/1842 Hurst Booth salary
367 Coal Mines 28/8/1842 Rice Booth crewman required
372 Coal Mines 12/9/1842 Cumberland Booth boats
373 Coal Mines 16/9/1842 bedding and clothing (could be dated 1841)
374 Coal Mines 14/9/1842 Booth servants for coxswain
376 Coal Mines 18/9/1842 Cumberland Booth Slopen Is.
377 Coal Mines 25/9/1842 Cumberland Booth letters delivery
378 Coal Mines 26/9/1842 Cook Newman prisoner's money
379 Coal Mines 6/10/1842 Cook Booth stores
380 Coal Mines 8/10/1842 Crocker Booth runaways captured
381 Coal Mines 24/10/1842 Cumberland Booth absconders
383 Point Puer 7/11/1842 extracts from records for 15 boys
385 Coal Mines 14/11/1842 Cumberland Booth receipt for soldiers' money
385 Coal Mines 18/11/1842 Cumberland Booth boats
386 Coal Mines 24/11/1842 Plunkett's death
388 Coal Mines 8/12/1842 Cook Booth Cumberland & Dunn loan
389 Coal Mines 9/12/1842 Cook Booth meat boat
390 Coal Mines 12/12/1842 Jones? Booth mines regulations - covering letter only
391 Coal Mines 13/12/1842 Surgeon Booth salary
392 Coal Mines 8/8/1842 Low Booth Hurst in Hobart
392 Coal Mines 15/12/1842 Cook Booth meat boat
393 Coal Mines 15/12/1842 Smee Booth Mr Smee's salary
394 Coal Mines 19/12/1842 Cook Booth 96th Regt paymaster
394 Coal Mines 16/12/1842 Cook Booth prisoner's possessions
395 Slopen Main 26/12/1842 Dowe Booth Mr Smee's interference with constables
396 Slopen Main 29/12/1842 Smee Booth re interference with constables
397 Coal Mines 29/12/1842 Cumberland Booth boat for timber
398 Port Arthur 31/12/1842 Hoy Booth monthly returns for P.A. Dockyard for the year 1842; account for work on Swallow
409 Cascades 19/1/1843 Kerr Booth new officer's arrival
410 Cascades 15/1/1843 Kerr Booth nominal returns of convicts' movements for weeks ending 15/1/1843 & 22/1/1843
412 Cascades 24/1/1843 Kerr Booth John Bray appointed overseer
413 Cascades 29/1/1843 Kerr Booth nominal returns of convicts' movements for weeks ending 29/1/1843 to 2/4/1843
422 Cascades 3/4/1843 Kerr Booth Bray resigns
423 Cascades 8/4/1843 Kerr Booth furniture removed to Slopen Is.
424 Cascades 9/4/1843 Kerr Booth nominal returns of convicts' movements for weeks ending 9/4/1843 & 16/4/1843
426 Cascades 21/4/1843 Lavender Booth escapee captured
427 Cascades 24/4/1843 Lavender Booth nominal returns of alterations at the station from 24/4/1843 to 27/5/1843
435 Cascades 6/6/1843 Lavender Inspector, C.D. return of work performed by tradesmen for the Visiting Magistrate & officers to 31/5/1843
437 Cascades 3/6/1843 Lavender Booth nominal return of alterations at the station
438 Cascades 7/6/1843 Lavender Booth clothing & handcuffs for watchmen
441 Cascades 10/6/1843 Lavender Booth nominal return of alterations at the station
443 Cascades 13/6/1843 Lavender Booth absconders
445 Cascades 17/6/1843 Booth magistrates & sentencing
447 Cascades 20/6/1843 Lavender Booth nominal returns of alterations at the station dated 20/6/1843 & 24/6/1843
450 Cascades 24/8/1843 Lavender Booth stores requisition
452 Cascades 4/9/1843 ticket of leave form required
453 Cascades 16/9/1843 Lavender Booth nominal returns of alterations at the station dated 16/9/1843 & 27/9/1843
455 Cascades 18/9/1843 Lavender Booth saop[ & clothing requisition
457 Cascades 23/9/1843 Lavender Booth nominal returns of alterations at the station from 23/9/1843 to 14/10/1843
463 Wedge Bay 18/10/1843 Walker Booth new road
464 Cascades 21/10/1843 Lavender Booth nominal return of alterations at the station
465 Port Arthur 30/10/1843 Booth Lavender circular re returns
466 Cascades 4/11/1843 Lavender Booth nominal return of alterations at the station
467 Cascades 9/11/1843 Lavender Booth arrival of Asst. Superintendent Willis
468 Cascades 11/11/1843 Lavender Booth nominal returns of alterations at the station dated 11/11/1843 & 18/11/1843
470 Cascades 21/11/1843 Lavender Booth Catechist requisition - covering letter only
472 Cascades 25/11/1843 Lavender Booth nominal return of alterations at the station
473 Cascades 28/11/1843 Lavender Booth new road
474 Cascades 2/12/1843 Lavender Booth nominal returns of alterations at the station from 2/12/1843 to 30/12/1843
479 Cascades 26/12/1843 Lavender Booth arrival of Asst. Superintendent Findlay
480 Port Arthur 16/5/1843 Hoy Booth requisition & estimates
481 Port Arthur 8/6/1843 Hoy Booth Norfolk Bay boat inspection
481 Port Arthur 30/9/1843 Hoy Booth Marian Watson repairs
483 Port Arthur 13/6/1843 Hoy Booth requisition
485 Port Arthur 1/1/1843 Hoy Booth 1842 return of shipwrights' work
489 Port Arthur 9/1/1843 Hoy Booth lack of planks
489 Port Arthur 30/5/1843 Hoy Booth punt to Wedge Bay
490 Port Arthur 31/5/1843 Hoy Booth rigging
490 Port Arthur 15/9/1843 Hoy Booth staffing of Dockyard
491 Port Arthur Hoy Booth dimensions of Eleanor
492 Port Arthur 27/7/1843 Hoy Booth copper sheeting
493 Port Arthur 28/11/1843 Hoy Booth 14 foot boat
494 Port Arthur 28/11/1843 Hoy Booth storekeeper's boat
494 Port Arthur 4/12/1843 Hoy Booth meat boat
496 Port Arthur 13/5/1843 Hoy Booth pitch
497 Slopen Island 8/1/1843 Short Booth appointment as storekeeper
501 Slopen Island 14/1/1843 Forcett Booth nominal returns of convicts' movements for weeks ending 14/1/1843 to 17/6/1843
525 Slopen Island 5/6/1843 Kerr Booth Sea Devil intrudes in closed waters - lost dinghy
527 Slopen Island 24/6/1843 Forcett Booth nominal returns of convicts' movements for weeks ending 24/6/1843 to 8/7/1843
530 Slopen Island 11/7/1843 Kerr Booth pass for John Sullivan
531 Slopen Island 15/7/1843 Forcett Booth nominal return of convicts' movements for week ending 15/7/1843
532 Port Arthur 1/8/1843 report on medical returns of P.A. & Point Puer
534 Port Arthur 1/1/1835 numerical statement of 565 cases tried at P.A. & P.P. in the year 1834
535 Port Arthur 1/1/1836 Booth numerical statement of 1571 cases tried at P.A. & P.P. in the year 1835
536 Point Puer 1/1/1838 Booth extracts from records for 60 boys to 6/12/1839
544 Coal Mines 18/12/1841 Cook report on staff, designs, school, etc.
546 Coal Mines 10/11/1841 Law Catechist's forage
548 Coal Mines 7/12/1841 Superintendent Booth absconders
549 Coal Mines 8/12/1841 Cook Booth mine workings
550 Coal Mines 15/7/1840 Booth nominal list of 14 men at the mines ordered to P.A.
551 Coal Mines 4/9/1840 Cook Booth pork offence
553 Coal Mines 16/12/1840 Booth nominal list of 19 men's movements
555 Coal Mines nominal list of men at the Coal Mines
555 Coal Mines 22/12/1841 Probat. Dept Booth Henry Miller appointed Coal Mines Overseer
556 Port Arthur 15/4/1842 Booth nominal list of 45 men whose sentences expire April 1842
558 Hobart 31/1/1843 Victor Booth Alexander Clark's appointment & his quarters
560 Hobart 28/8/1843 PMO Booth Dr McWharrie appointed
562 Richmond 3/4/1843 Schaw Booth articles from housebreaking at Clarence Plains in possession of P.A. boat coxswain
564 Launceston 6/4/1843 Chester? Booth court list
565 Hobart 2/5/1843 Gunn Booth nominal list of 12 prisoners to P.A. recently received from NSW
566 Hobart 4/5/1843 PMO Booth Dr Brock appointment
13A Col Sec Office 3/12/1857 warrant James Moor to P.A. - missed during filming
153A Point Puer 26/10/1835 memo - missed during filming
317A Coal Mines 13/11/1841 Cook soap, slops, etc. letter continued - missed during filming
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