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.