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Founders and Survivors: Life Course Ships Project
Dataset of 25,000 convicts who were transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on 126 convict ships, 1812-1853. Contains around 100 variables on early life, crime and sentence, behaviour and punishment under sentence, family formation, post-sentence life, descendants, and date and details of death. Sources include convict records; birth, death and marriage registrations; census records; newspapers; police gazettes; and other administrative and historical sources. Part of the larger 'Founders and Survivors' Project.
Funding
Australian Research Council
History
References
- https://www.academia.edu/34373673/Crowdsourcing_convict_life_courses_or_the_value_of_volunteers_in_the_age_of_digital_data._The_Future_of_Historical_Demography._2016
- https://www.academia.edu/12172406/Mortality_under_and_after_sentence_of_male_convicts_transported_to_Van_Diemen_s_Land_Tasmania_1840_1852._History_of_the_Family._2015
- https://www.academia.edu/10065011/A_test_of_character_a_case_study_of_male_convicts_transported_to_Van_Diemen_s_Land_1826_1838._Lives_in_Transition_Longitudinal_Analysis_from_Historical_Sources._2015
- https://www.academia.edu/15339488/Building_a_life_course_dataset_from_Australian_convict_records._Founders_and_Survivors_Australian_life_courses_in_historical_context_1803_1920._Population_Reconstruction._2015
- https://www.academia.edu/10065022/Involuntary_but_ever_so_visible_transported_to_Van_Diemen_s_Land_1812_1849._On_the_Wing._2013
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