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Claim a Convict (Hawkesbury on the Net) · convict transportation · 1788-1868 · other

Lesley Uebel · Hawkesbury on the Net

Authority
The National Archives (UK)
Series
convict_transportation
Years covered
1788-1868
Archive reference
HO 11
Provider
other
Form accessed
transcript
hawkesbury.net.au ↗ retrieved 2026-09-08 Added manually

A name index to the British convict transportation registers (TNA series HO 11), one row per convict giving trial place, trial date, sentence, ship and arrival year, with the HO 11 piece and page cited on every record. A transcription, not an image, so quality 2 — but of a primary register and with the archival reference given, which is what separates it from a family tree. Scriptable: the search form posts `criteria` and `year` to results.php (it returns HTTP 406 to a bare curl user-agent; a browser user-agent and a Referer clear it), and each hit has a stable convictDetails.php?convictId=N page. The index is comprehensive enough for its absences to mean something: a search on Davis returns 814 convicts including women on the 1826-1828 female transports.

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Claim a Convict (Hawkesbury on the Net) Ship Asia I (2) · Page 148 · Date 1822 Secondary

Claim a Convict (Hawkesbury on the Net) · convict transportation · 1788-1868 · other

For John Abel Avery (1802–1880)

Convict Name: John Avery | Trial Place: Middlesex Gaol Delivery | Trial Date: 12 September 1821 | Sentence: 7 years | Ship: Asia I (2) | Arrival Year: 1822 | Sources: The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/4, p.148

Detail page fields in page order. It matches, field for field, the certificate-of-freedom butt transcribed on the compiled family-history page cited separately on this person — same court, same trial date, same sentence, same ship, same arrival year — which is what lifts the transportation from a family tree to a register with an archival reference. The identification is against the other John Avery who arrived in 1822: convict 19270, per Mary II, tried at the Sussex Assizes on 26 March 1821 and sentenced to life, who cannot be this man. Five researchers have claimed convict 400.