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Ancestry.com. Nya Sydwales, Australien, fängelsebeskrivning och inskrivningsböcker, 1818-1930 [webbaserad databas]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

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Nya Sydwales, Australien, fängelsebeskrivning och inskrivningsböcker, 1818-1930

Detta är en samling med fängelsebeskrivningar och inskrivningsböcker för fängelser i Nya Sydwales i Australien. Tidsperioden för dessa handlingar varierar från fängelse till fängelse, men uppgifterna gäller från 1818 till 1930. Handlingarna upprättades när en fånge anlände till fängelset och de kan innehålla ett foto på varje person tillsammans med nummer, namn, alias, datum för porträttet, födelseort, födelseår, uppgifter om ankomsten, yrke, religion, utbildning, längd, vikt vid ankomst och utskrivning, hårfärg, ögonfärg, speciella kännetecken, rättegångsinformation samt information om tidigare fällande domar.

This collection of gaol description and entrance books from prisons in New South Wales contain two different, but similar, records. The first were kept before the New South Wales government required record keeping. These include records from both Sydney and Darlinghurst gaols (Sydney held prisoners until 1841, when they were transferred to the new gaol at Darlinghurst), as well as Albury (1861–1867), Berrima (1840–1847), Goldburn (1848–1867), Maitland (1860–1867), and Newcastle (1840–1859).

The other series of books started after a proclamation in the New South Wales Government Gazette in 1867 required that description books be kept for incoming and outgoing prisoners. This collection contains books from 12 different prisons, or gaols, in New South Wales. The descriptions include individual records for each prisoner with pictures and personal information used as a detailed prisoner file. This collection contains records from:

Albury (1876–1929)
Armidale (1894–1915)
Bathurst (1874–1930)
Berrima (1883–1888)
Biloela (1885–1906)
Broken Hill (1904–1929)
Darlinghurst (1869–1914)
Deniliquin (1895–1929)
Dubbo (1889–1920)
Goulburn (1867–1930)
Maitland (1867–1930)
Trial Bay (1892–1901)

The earlier books aren’t as detailed and may not contain a photograph, but they will have most important pieces of information. The records may contain the following details:

number
name
aliases
date portrait was taken
native place
birth year
ship and year of arrival
trade or occupation
religion
standard of education
height
entrance and exit weight
hair color
eye color
marks or special features
crime
trial information
details of previous convictions

This collection also contains a few volumes that are indexes to entrance or description books.