Irish Convicts to NSW 1791 - 1834

This database contains details of Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1791 - 1834.

The database contains:

• Irish State prisoners,
• convicts who were tried in Ireland, and
• convicts who were tried outside Ireland whose native place was in Ireland.

While every effort was made to correctly transcribe the Shipping Indents, not all Indents showed the native place of their respective convicts.

Database Primary Sources

• State Records NSW for Convict Shipping Bound Indents
• State Records NSW: Guide to New South Wales Archives relating to Convict and Convict Administration No 4 March 2006
• Charles Bateson: The Convict Ships 1959
• Dr Anne-Maree Whitaker: Unfinished Revolution 1994
• Kieran Sheedy: Upon the Mercy of Government 1988
• Kieran Sheedy: Tellicherry Five 1997
• Angela Young: Ripe for Harvest 1980
• Yvonne Browning: St. Peters Richmond: The Early People and Burials 1990
• Hawkesbury Family History Group: The Hawkesbury Pioneer Register 1994
• Hawkesbury Family History Group: The Hawkesbury Pioneer Register Volume 2 2001
• Reg Wright: If All Else Fails ... Descent, Sep 1986
• Reg Wright: Friendship (2) Revisited Descent, Sep 1988
• Alfred James: The Voyage to Sydney of the 'Minerva' in 1799/1800
• Ruán O'Donnell: Insurgent Wicklow 1798 1998
• Ruán O'Donnell: Rebellion in Wicklow 1798 1998
• Ruán O'Donnell: Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803 2003
• National Archives of Ireland: Rebellion Papers (1796-1808)
• National Archives of Ireland: Ireland-Australia Transportation Records Database 1791-1868
• Lynette Ramsay Silver: The Battle of Vinegar Hill 1989
• Dr C.J. Smee & Mrs J. Selkirk Provis: Pioneer Register Vols I & II
• Perry McIntyre: Convict Pardons, Tickets of Leave NSW 1810-1875 Index
• Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland 1851
• Ordnance Survey Road Atlas of Ireland 1985 Edition
• Bob Reece: The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales 2001
• Con Costello: Botany Bay The Story of the Convicts Transported from Ireland to Australia 1791-1853 1987
• George Rudé: Protest & Punishment 1978
• Barbara Hall: A Desperate Set of Villains: Convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis Ireland to Botany Bay 1796 2000
• Barbara Hall: A Nimble Fingered Tribe: Convicts of the Sugar Cane Ireland to Botany Bay 1793 2002
• Barbara Hall: Of Infamous Character: Convicts of the Boddingtons Ireland to Botany Bay 1793 2004
• Barbara Hall: Death or Liberty: Convicts of the Britannia Ireland to Botany Bay 1797 2006
• Parramatta & District Historical Society: Parramatta Pioneer Register 2000
• Liverpool & District Family History Society: Pioneers of Liverpool 2001
• Camden Area Family History Society: Camden Pioneer Register 1800-1920 2001

Secondary Sources

Secondary sources are listed separately

Acknowledgements

I am indebted to my wife, Tricia, and my late father, Fred (1917-2005), for their constant help in searching various records for the last dozen years.

Thanks to Patricia Downes for programming the database and coding the site.