Convict Records added to the State Record Office catalogue

WA Convict Records added to SRO Catalogue

Genealogical and convict researchers will be aware that access to Convict Department records in consignment 1156 has largely been through the typed AN 358 listing. SRO has commenced adding these critically important archives into the SRO’s online catalogue and to date has added 407 items and 9 new series entries. Examples of these are series 5056 (search ‘S5056’ in the catalogue), the collection of R convict registers and S5057, the Casual Sick registers (Cons1156 CS volumes). In conducting this work, the SRO is making some ‘new finds’, such as registers of local prisoners at Bunbury Gaol (for the period 1933-1962) being properly identified and catalogued (Series 5078).

from Friends of Battye Library Newsletter, July 2023, p29