Free Settlers' Papers, 1828-1852
- Component identifier:
- Series FS
- Extent:
- 26 items
- Content Summary:
- Male convicts who served a minimum of four years of their sentence were entitled to request a free passage for a dependent wife and family to join them in the colony. The series include some lists of convicts who requested this privilege, giving details of date of transportation, name of ship, and name and address of wife. There are also some letters written by convicts to their wives.
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- Parent Restrictions:
- Available for Access.
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the National Archives of Ireland where the original records are held.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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