The WA Convicts website (https://waconvicts.fhwa.org.au/) has been updated with convict details for all ships up to and including the Runnymede. We have loaded details for 4,014 convicts. Just 5,566 to go!

If we have not yet loaded the convicts for the ship that you are interested in there

Initially developed by Steve Howell, in his capacity as the State Library's WA History Specialist, Dead Reckoning remains relevant to all family history researchers endeavouring to understand and access West Australian records.

Marcia Watson has written this teaser to the story of the life of convict No. 589, John Godderd who was transported to WA on the Pyrenees in 1851.

John Godderd, 589, Pyrenees

The latest edition of "Convict Links", our group newsletter, is now online.  Keep an eye out for back issues, which will gradually be added.

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The 14th October 2001