Listado de transporte de reclusos australianos – Primera flota, 1787-1788

Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788

Información de la fuente

Ancestry.com. Listado de transporte de reclusos australianos – Primera flota, 1787-1788 [base de datos en línea]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Datos originales:

Home Office: Convict Transportation Registers; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO11); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.

Records where no image is available were taken from various compiled sources.

Acerca de Listado de transporte de reclusos australianos – Primera flota, 1787-1788

The First Fleet sailed from England on May 12, 1787 and landed in Australia on January 26, 1788. Along with government officials and supplies came 568 male, and 191 female convicts.

The ships in the First Fleet include:

  • Alexander
  • Borrowdale
  • Charlotte
  • Fishburn
  • Friendship
  • Golden Grove
  • Lady Penrhyn
  • Prince of Wales
  • Scarborough
  • Sirius
  • Supply

Historical Background:

Transportation, as a punishment for convicted criminals in England and other parts of the British Empire, came about in the seventeenth century. At first transportation was primarily to America. However, this stopped with the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1776 and a new penal colony in Australia was developed. Transportation was formally abolished in 1868, but had not been practiced for nearly a decade before that. By the time transportation was discontinued, approximately 160,000 people had been sent to Australia.

What’s Included?

This database contains the convict transportation registers for the First Fleet. Information available in these registers includes:

  • Name of convict
  • Date and place of conviction
  • Term of sentence
  • Name of ship on which convict sailed to Australia
  • Departure date
  • Name of colony in which sent to

Please note that not all of this information may be available for each record. Some of this information may also only be available by viewing the register images.

Having Trouble Finding a Passenger?

Given the nature of record keeping in England during the period covered by this collection, convict passenger lists for certain ships do not appear within this collection. Ancestry is currently sourcing the missing material from local archives. Should you be unable to find reference to a particular convict in this collection, please search within the related data collections listed on this page as individual convict records will in most cases exist elsewhere in this collection.