10.4225/03/59ed402437518 Janet McCalman Janet McCalman Rebecca Kippen Rebecca Kippen Founders and Survivors: Life Course Ships Project Monash University 2017 Tasmania nineteenth century convicts mortality fertility life course early life Australia crime imprisonment History Demography not elsewhere classified Mortality Family and Household Studies 2017-10-23 01:12:03 Dataset https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/dataset/Founders_and_Survivors_Life_Course_Ships_Project/5526610 Dataset of 25,000 convicts who were transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on 126 convict ships, 1812-1853. Contains around 100 variables on early life, crime and sentence, behaviour and punishment under sentence, family formation, post-sentence life, descendants, and date and details of death. Sources include convict records; birth, death and marriage registrations; census records; newspapers; police gazettes; and other administrative and historical sources. Part of the larger 'Founders and Survivors' Project.