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