%0 Generic %A McCalman, Janet %A Kippen, Rebecca %D 2017 %T Founders and Survivors: Life Course Ships Project %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/dataset/Founders_and_Survivors_Life_Course_Ships_Project/5526610 %R 10.4225/03/59ed402437518 %K Tasmania %K nineteenth century %K convicts %K mortality %K fertility %K life course %K early life %K Australia %K crime %K imprisonment %K History %K Demography not elsewhere classified %K Mortality %K Family and Household Studies %X 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. %I Monash University