Guide to the records of the Privy Council (as filmed by AJCP)
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Created: 2018
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Series PC. 1. Privy Council: Miscellaneous Unbound Papers, 1796 - 1826
Unbound papers on a wide range of subjects, including charters, commissions, public health, military and naval stores, schools, the colonies (1785-1800) and the Convict Establishment (1819-1844)...
Subseries Pieces 37-40 (Select). Domestic, Military, Trade and Legal Papers, 1796 - 1798
Subseries Pieces 61-64 (Select). Colonial Papers, 1784 - 1795
Correspondence re ship of war to accompany convict transport vessels to Botany Bay, 1784 - 1786 (File 61. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes letters proposing appointment of additional Man of War officer, and additional marines etc. to establish settlement.
Correspondence re appointment of and instructions to Captain Arthur Philip, 1787 - 1791 (File 62. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes correspondence relating to creation of a Court of Vice Admiralty in New South Wales; settlers; land grants; building of churches; maintenance of minister and school master; table of fees; lists of convicts sentenced to transportation overseas, proposal for a Great Seal for the use of the NSW Government.
Series PC 2. Privy Council: Registers, 1786 - 1810
This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of proceedings, orders, proclamations and other papers of the Privy Council and reports and papers of the Privy Council committees...
Registers (vol. 24): organisation of convict fleet, 1786 (File 131. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Marines for Botany Bay; Convicts - appointing place of transportation for several lists of convicts (gives term, name, and where and when tried); appointment of Second Captain to proceed to Botany Bay; Nova Scotia.
Registers (vol. 25): convict transportation lists, 1787 (File 132. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Convicts - orders appointing place of transportation for several lists of convicts; Vice Admiralty; New South Wales.
Registers (vol. 27): convict transportation lists; NSW land grants, May 1789 - May 1790 (File 134. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Convicts - order appointing place of transportation for listed convicts (includes name, crime, place of trial; other lists include sentence length, name where and when tried); Newfoundland; New South Wales - land grants.
Registers (vol. 28): Great Seal for Government use; convict transportation lists, April 1790 - March 1791 (File 135. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - preparation of Great Seal for Government use; New South Wales - draft of design for Great Seal; New South Wales - order appointing place of convict transportation for listed convicts (includes name, where and when trial held, sentence).
Registers (vol. 29): convict transportation lists, April 1791 - April 1792 (File 136. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - order appointing place of transportation for convicts listed (lists name, where and when tried, term).
Registers (vol. 30): convict transportation lists; Scottish convicts, May 1792 - February 1793 (File 137. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Convicts - order appointing place of transportation for listed convicts in the Stanislaus Hulk at Woolwich, Fortunee Hulk in Langston Harbour, Lion Hulk in Portsmouth Harbour. Lists name, age, offence, when and where convicted, sentence. List of transports in NewGate specifying their names, ages, term; List of Scotch convicts under sentence of transportation in the Censor Hulk at Woolwich; In the Fortunee Hulk in Langston Harbour; In the New Compter, London. St John's; List of female convicts under sentence of transportation - Name, age, trade (sometimes) sentence; further lists of convicts to be transported to New South Wales (name, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 32): Scottish convict transportation lists; appointment of John Hunter as Governor, October 1793 - April 1794 (File 139. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Order appointing place of transportation/ banishment for male convicts from Scotland; List of convicts showing names, when and where convicted, sentence. Many from Glasgow; List of female offenders (English); Commission for John Hunter Esq to be Governor; List of Offenders from Edinburgh.
Registers (vol. 33): instructions for Governor Hunter, May 1794 - July 1794 (File 140. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - instructions for Governor Hunter; Newfoundland - instructions for Governor Sir James Wallace.
Registers (vol. 34): transportation of convict Joseph Gerald (Edinburgh), August 1794 - December 1794 (File 141. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Convicts - order appointing place of transportation or banishment for Scottish convicts, one convict listed (Joseph Gerald, Edinburgh).
Registers (vol. 37): female convict transportation lists, August 1795 - December 1795 (File 144. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: proposed draft of order for transport of certain female convicts to New South Wales; order appointing place of transportation of female convicts; List of female convicts (Name, age, where tried and when, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 39): male convict transportation list, June 1796 - October 1796 (File 146. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Order appointing place of transportation for convicts; List of convicts - male, (name, age, where and when tried, place of transport; term).
Registers (vol. 40): female convict transportation list, November 1796 - February 1797 (File 147. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for listed female convicts; list of transports (female convicts) includes name, age, when and where tried, place of transportation, term.
Registers (vol. 42): male convict transportation list, August 1797 - December 1797 (File 149. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for listed convicts; list of male transports (name, age, where tried and when, place of transportation, term) order appointing place of transportation for female convicts (no list of names attached).
Registers (vol. 43): female convict transportation list, January 1798 - April 1798 (File 150. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: orders appointing place of transportation for female convicts; lists of female transports (name, age, where and when tried, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 44): male convict transportation list, June 1798 - November 1798 (File 151. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for male convicts; list of male transports (name, age, where and when tried, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 46): female convict transportation list, June 1799 - December 1799 (File 153. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for female convicts; list of female convicts (name, age, where and when tried, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 47): male convict transportation list, January 1800 - May 1800 (File 154. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of male transports (name, age, where and when tried, term).
Registers (vol. 48): convict transportation lists, June 1800 - September 1800 (File 155. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for male and female convicts; list of male convicts (name, age, where and when tried, place of transportation, term); list of female convicts (name, where and when tried, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 51): convict transportation lists; South Whale Fishery, May 1801 - July 1801 (File 158. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts- male and female- (name, age, where and when convicted, place of transportation, term); South Whale Fishery Ships Register.
Registers (vol. 52): convict transportation list, August 1801 - December 1801 (File 159. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, age, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 53): appointment of Philip Gidley King, January 1802 - May 1802 (File 160. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - order approving commission and instructions for Philip Gidley King, Governor.
Registers (vol. 54): convict transportation lists, June 1802 - December 1802 (File 161. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of male convicts (name, where and when tried, term); list of female convicts (name, age, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 55): convict transportation list, January 1803 - May 1803 (File 162. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 57): convict transportation lists, September 1803 - February 1804 (File 164. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of male and female convicts (name, where and when tried, term).
Registers (vol. 60): Governor Bligh; male convict transportation list, February 1805 - June 1805 (File 167. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - commission for Governor Bligh approved; order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of male convicts (name, where and when convicted, term); instructions for Governor Bligh.
Registers (vol. 62): convict transportation list, December 1805 - April 1806 (File 169. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 64): convict transportation list; John Palmer's appeal against Simeon Lord, August 1806 - December 1806 (File 171. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: orders appointing place of transportation for convicts; lists of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term); New South Wales - Committee Report for permitting John Palmer to appeal against Simeon Lord.
Registers (vol. 66): Alexander, May 1807 - August 1807 (File 173. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Entry - the cargo of the ship Alexander from New South Wales admitted to entry. [text is very faint and difficult to read].
Registers (vol. 68): female convict transportation list, December 1807 - February 1808 (File 175. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Order for convicts to be transported to New South Wales; list of female convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 70): convict transportation list, 1 June 1808 - 31 August 1808 (File 177. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term)...
Registers (vol. 74): Commission and instructions to Lachlan Macquarie Esquire, Governor, May 1809 - June 1809 (File 181. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Registers (vol. 75): convict transportation list, July 1809 - August 1809 (File 182. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).