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New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842

Jurisdiction
New South Wales, Australia
Series
convict
Years covered
1788–1842
Provider
Ancestry
Collection id
NSWConvictIndents

<li>New South Wales Government. I<i>ndents First Fleet, Second Fleet and Ships. N</i>RS 1150, microfiche 620–624. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia. </li> <li>New South Wales Government. L<i>ist of Convicts: Minerva, Speedy, Royal Admiral, Minorca, Canada, Nile. </i>NRW 1151, microfiche 625. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia. </li> <li>New South Wales Government. B<i>ound manuscript indents, 1788–1842. N</i>RS 12188, microfiche 614–619,626–657, 660–695. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia. </li> <li>New South Wales Government. A<i>nnotated printed indents (i.e., office copies). </i>NRS 12189, microfiche 696–730, 732–744. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia. </li>©<p> the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales and is used under licence with the permission of the State Records Authority. The State of New South Wales gives no warranty regarding the data's accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose.</p>

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New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Ship Marquis of Wellington · Page 28 Primary

For John Barber (1792–1841)

John Barber | Cambridge, Isle of Ely | 16th February 1814 | Fourteen Years | Suffolk | Stable boy | 26 | 5/5½ | fa. ruddy | sandy | blue

Placed on the person as well as on the arrival event because its value here is his ORIGIN and his AGE, neither of which is a fact about the voyage. NATIVE PLACE SUFFOLK is the first record read in three rounds of work on this line to state where he came from; his birthplace field is left empty in this proposal only because I cannot confirm from here whether a county-level "Suffolk, England" row already exists (search_places caps at 25 rows and a county row sorts past the cap under S, which is the documented trap) — it is listed for the orchestrator to wire up. On the AGE: 26 in January 1815 gives a birth about 1788-89. The 1828 census makes him 37 or 38 (about 1790) and his death registration 1283/1841 reads AGE 49 (about 1792, the value carried on this record). Three sources, three years, drifting three years across twenty-six — unremarkable for a man whose age was never documented at birth, and no basis for preferring one over the others, so nothing is changed. What the indent DOES settle is that the compiled claim "born about 1792 in Suffolk" had the county right.