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Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) is the government archives of the Australian State of Victoria. PROV was created by the Victorian Public Records Act 1973 [1] with responsibility for the better preservation management and utilisation of the public records of the State. It is an agency of the Department of Government Services.
Home Office - Department responsible for administration of convicts. Records include convict trial, imprisonment and transportation registers as well as convict musters and censuses in New South Wales and other convict colonies. [19] [21] War Office – Administered British regiments serving in Australia and New Zealand for much of the colonial ...
Records of land surveys, grants and purchases from the 19th and early 20th centuries; Colonial/Chief Secretary's Office records from 1828 until early 20th century; Records of convicts transported to Western Australia, 1850–1868. These have been inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
The project relied on the mass-digitisation of over 100,000 images, manual transcription of the convict records, XML record matching, volunteer crowdsourcing, creation of a customised genealogical database for population and family history analysis, and statistical analyses. [3] Example of the convict records held by the NSW State Library
The national significant number consists of a single-digit area code followed by the local eight-digit number, a total of nine digits. Calling within Australia a landline telephone in an area other than that of the caller, the telephone number is preceded by the Australian trunk prefix 0 and the area code: 0x xxxx xxxx.
In terms of performance indicators, in 2018 Corrective Services NSW prisons were below average for Australian states and territories for recidivism (51% at two years), assaults (25 per 100 prisoners), deaths in custody (0.07/100 prisoners), participation in education and training (22%), time out of cells (8 hours/day) and prison capacity ...
Staff and prisoners of Fremantle Prison occupied the former prison on The Terrace, Fremantle, in Western Australia, between 1855 [1]: 7 and 1991. [2] Fremantle Prison was administered by a comptroller general, sheriff, or director, responsible for the entire convict or prison system, and a superintendent in charge of the prison itself.
Although a convict-supported settlement was established in Western Australia from 1826 to 1831, direct transportation of convicts did not begin until 1850. It continued until 1868. During that period, 9,668 convicts were transported on 43 convict ships .