Founders and Survivors: Life Course Ships Project
Janet McCalman
Rebecca Kippen
10.4225/03/59ed402437518
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.
2017-10-23 01:12:03
Tasmania
nineteenth century
convicts
mortality
fertility
life course
early life
Australia
crime
imprisonment
History
Demography not elsewhere classified
Mortality
Family and Household Studies