AIGS Logo  Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc.



Page 1 of 2
Tasmania
Catalogue of Fiche, Film and CDs
Note that the spelling of place names may have changed over the years so remember to check all variations.
 Updates highlighted in Red
This catalogue is divided into the following categories.
Choose any link below to go to your area of interest.

  Births, Deaths & Marriages  from the Registry

Births, Deaths & Marraiges
  from other Sources  

Cemeteries
    

Convicts    

Directories    

Electoral & Census Rolls     
New

Genealogy
Government   

Immigration
    

Miscellaneous Records
    

Newspapers

Police, Crime & Criminals    

BIRTHS,  DEATHS  and  MARRIAGES - from  the  Registry

Pioneers Index (births, deaths and marriages) 1803-1899
fiche & CD
Federation Index - Births 1900-1919, Marriages, Deaths 1900-1930   
fiche & CD
Birth & Baptism Register Index  1803-1903
Film
Death &  Burial Register Index   1803-1933
Film
Marriage Register Index  1803-1899
Film

BIRTHS,  DEATHS  and  MARRIAGES - from  other  Sources
Australian Genealogical Computer Index (AGCI)  1788 -1998
fiche
Australian Genealogical Computer Index (AGCI)  Vol 1  2003 
CD
Australian Genealogical Computer Index (AGCI)  Vol 3  2008 
CD
Australian Genealogical Computer Index [AGCI]  Vol 4  2011
CD
Births in Australia [Donohoe Publication]  1788 -1828
CD
Church Records at State Archives of Tasmania  to 2009
CD
IGI - Australia, South West Pacific  1992
fiche
Miscellaneous Parish Records 1837-1953
This CD is an index to miscellaneous parish and other records from Hobart and country
Tasmania, including St David’s Hobart and the Ross District, Dorset Mission, Port Esperance and Brighton.
CD
People of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land and their Families  [Donohoe Publication]  1788 -1820
CD
Tasmania, the People and their Families  [Donohoe Publication]  1803 -1820
CD

CEMETERIES

AIGS Cemetery Series 3 [see VIC Cemeteries]
Old Beach, St George C of E Cemetery, Tea Tree St Thomas
fiche & CD
Bruny Island, Southern Tasmania to 2005
      (MIs & photos from 5 cemeteries & miscellaneous memorials)
CD
Carr Villa Cemetery Launceston Memorial Park & Crematorium Burial Records  1905-1989
15 fiche
Carr Villa Cemetery Launceston Memorial Park & Crematorium Burial Records  1905-2001
CD
Cornelian Bay (Hobart) Cemetery - to 1991
(see also Southern Regional Cemetery Trust Burials & Cremations)
7 fiche
Lilydale General Cemetery
4 fiche
Nabowla Cemetery
1 fiche
Queenborough Cemetery, Hobart
5 fiche
Railton Cemeteries, North West Tasmania to July 2006
      (MIs & photos from 4 cemeteries)
CD
St George's Anglican New Ground Cemetery, Moriarty, North West Tasmania
CD
Southern Regional Cemetery Trust Burials & Cremations 1872-1994
(see also Cornelian Bay, Hobart)
fiche
Tombstone and Memorial Inscriptions of Tasmania (TAMIOT)  (2nd edition 1999)
36 fiche
Tombstone and Memorial Inscriptions of Tasmania (TAMIOT)  (2nd edition 1999)
CD
Wilmot Public Cemetery, North West Tasmania
CD

CONVICT  RECORDS

1  Assignment lists of Convicts from Ireland to Tasmania 1840-1851
2  Assignment lists of Convicts from Ireland to Tasmania 1840- 1843
Miscellaneous Convict lists, 1838-1845 with some NSW convict papers, 1837-1848
Convict ship assignment lists Name, where convicted, when and term; sometimes includes age,
height, trade, native place and how appropriated.
Tasmanian Film
1  Assignment lists of Convicts from Ireland to Tasmania 1843-1844
2  Assignment lists of Convicts from Ireland, England and Scotland etc to Tasmania 1845-1851
Miscellaneous Convict lists, 1838-1845 with some NSW convict papers 1837-1848
Convict ship assignment lists Name, where convicted, when and term; sometimes includes age,
height, trade, native place and how appropriated.
Tasmanian Film
Assignment Lists of Convicts from Pentonville & Millbank Prisons  (CY1195-1205)
      1821 – 1839
      1840 - 1843
      1844
      1845
      1846 – 1851
      1852 – 1854

Film Eng Gen 41
Film Eng Gen 42
Film Eng Gen 43
Film Eng Gen 44
Film Eng Gen 45
Film Eng Gen 46
Bibliography of the Convict Transports [Donohoe Publication] [see NSW]
CD
Colonial Collection  1802 - 1923
CD
More Tasmanian convicts Papers re convict ships 1814-1845
fiche
Colonial Convict Movements Index  1827 -1853  [see NSW]
CD
Colonial Index - Tasmania & Norfolk Island 1816 - 1889
fiche & CD
Convict History of Australia  [Donohoe Publication]
CD
Convict Records, Archives Office of Tasmania 1804-1853
fiche & CD
Convict Records, Lists of Prisoners at Campbelltown Jail 1832 - 1854
Film
Convict Records,  Richmond Police Office, Court & Gaol 1828 - 1851
Film
Convict Road Gangs, Reports of Ironed Gangs  1834 -1849
CD
Convict Hulk Registers   AJCP M4879-4883
A series of 16 volumes on 5 films of the Hulk Registers and Letter Books 1802-1849
Please note, not all of the convicts listed will have been transported.
The films are continuous ie item 4 (Woolwich appears on film Gen 17 and continues on Gen 18)
Convicts Hulk Registers   AJCP M4879-4883
       A series of 16 volumes on 5 films of the Hulk Registers and Letter Books 1802 - 1849
       Please note, not all of the convicts listed will have been transported.
       These Films will be found in the English film cabinets in the library.
       AJCP M4879 Registers of convicts on hulks in Chatham, Woolwich & Devonport (Pieces 1-4)
             1    Chatham:  Hulks 'Ganymede,' 'Dolphin,' 'Cumberland'  1820 - 1833
             2    Chatham:  Hulks 'Fortitude' & 'Euryalus'   1825 - 1836
             3    Woolwich & Devonport:  Hulks  'Captivity,' 'Ganymede' & 'Discovery'  1821 - 1833
             4    Woolwich:  Hulks 'Prudentia, 'Retribution” &   'Justitia'  1803-1836 (Part)
Film ENG Gen 17
       AJCP M4880 Registers of convicts on hulks in Woolwich (Pieces 4-7)
             4    (Continued) Woolwich: Hulks 'Prudentia,' 'Retribution' & 'Justitia'   1803 - 1836
             5    Index to 'Justitia'
             6    Index to 'Retribution'             
             7    Woolwich:  Hulks 'Retribution' & 'Bellepheron'   1802 - 1834
Film ENG Gen 18
       AJCP M4881 Registers of convicts on hulks in Woolwich & Portsmouth (Pieces 7-9)
             7    (Continued)   Woolwich:   Hulks  'Retribution' & 'Bellepheron'   1802 - 1834
             8    Portsmouth:  Hulks  'Portland' 'Captivity'  1802 - 1836
             9    Portsmouth:  Hulks  'Leviathan,'  'Laurel,' 'York'  & 'Hardy'   1805 - 1836
Film ENG Gen 19
       AJCP M4882   Registers of convicts on hulks in Portsmouth  (Piece 9)
             9    (Continued)  Portsmouth:  Hulks  'Leviathan,'   'Laurel,'  'York' &  'Hardy'  1805 - 1836
       AJCP M4882   Letter books for Chatham, Woolwich & Devonport Pieces 10-13
             10   Letter book of  'Euryalus'   1837 - 1843
             11   Letter Book of  'Fortitude'   1837 - 1843
             12   Letter Book of  'Ganymede' &  'Warrior'   1837 - 1844
             13   Letter Book of  'Justitia'   1837 - 1839
Film ENG Gen 20
       AJCP M4883  Letter books for Woolwich & Portsmouth (Pieces 13-16)
             13   (Continued)  Letter Book of   'Justitia'   1837 - 1839
             14   Letter Book of  'Leviathan'   1837 - 1839
             15   Letter Book of  'York'  1837 - 1843
             16   Convict Hulk Establishment Letter Book  1847 - 1849
Film ENG Gen 21
Convicts Miscellany (Assignment Lists of 108 ships) 1821-1854
fiche
Convicts & Exiles Transported from Ireland [Donohoe Publication]  1791 -1820 [see NSW]
fiche & CD
Convicts received at Newgate Gaol Bristol
Quarter Sessions:  Gaol Delivery Fiats 1741-1828 (gives details of crime, sentence etc.) 
Film Gls 26
Convicts Transported from Cheshire, Essex, London & Middlesex
(see Quarter Session Records for the respective English Counties)
Film
AJCP Film M1638
1   Calendars of prisoners in Castle Gaol, Oxford, tried at the Assizes 1775-1844
2   Calendars of prisoners for trial at Oxford Quarter Sessions and at the Assizes, 1822-1840
3   Calendars of prisoners for trial at Oxford Quarter Sessions and at the Assizes, 1841-1850
Broadsides and Newspaper Articles on Trials and Executions various dates between 1775 and 1863.
Film Oxf 2
ACP Film M1639
1   A Calendar of the Prisoners for Trial at Oxford Quarter Sessions and the Assizes 1851-1853
Private papers: Records deposited by Gillett Bros (Appertaining to New Zealand property)
                      Records of Morrell, Peel & Gamlen, Solicitors ((Appertaining to New Zealand)
                      Records deposited by Slater, Son & More, solicitors of Stratford upon Avon with reference                       to WA
2   Register of Convicts transported to Maria Island 1815-1832
Film Oxf 3
County Down convicts My Irish RoguesA World Away (see Ireland - Co Down  fiche)
fiche
England- Hue & Cry or Police Gazette (for Escaped Convicts 1797-1840 (see England General)
CD
Forgotten Australians, the Non-Anglo or Celtic Convicts & Exiles [Donohoe Publication]
CD
More Tasmanian convicts: papers re: convict ships 1814-1845
fiche
Records of Edinburgh Calton Prison 1852-1874
(The Film SCT 22 is in the Scotland General cabinet)      
List of Convicts held for transportation in the Edinburgh prison.        
Information given:  No, Name, Age, Crime, Where Tried, Sentence, Chaplains remarks, Literacy,
Character, Health, other Convictions.       
Film Sct 22
Stories and tales of the Transported Convicts  [Donohoe Publication]  [see NSW]
fiche & CD

DIRECTORIES

1834 Melville's Directory of Tasmania
3 fiche
1867 McPhail's Directory of Tasmania
CD
1870 Directory of Australia -
Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Ipswich, Perth, Hobart, Launceston - Shipping Merchants & Manufacturers. (More details and the fiche will be found in AUSTRALIA - General)
2 fiche
1904 Wise's Post Office Directory
CD
1906 -1958 Telephone Exchange, list of subscribers
fiche
1934 Wise's Post Office Directory
6 fiche
Medical Directories of Australia, NZ, Fiji and the Orient - Compendium 1
            1883, 1886, 1892, 1896, 1900, 1903, 1911, 1915
CD

ELECTORAL  &  CENSUS   ROLLS

Early Tasmanian Census (see Guide 29)   (part) 1837
                                                              1842 -1848
                                                              1851
                                                              part 1857
A surname index can be found through a link to the Tasmanian Archives.
Film TAS CEN 28
Films TAS CEN 1-23
Films TAS CEN 24-27
Film TAS CEN 26
Electoral Rolls 1856, 1861-62 (for Legislative Council & House of Assembly)
1 Film
Electoral Rolls (Districts of Meander & Devon) 1856
These are included on the CD 'Index to Passenger Arrivals & Departures from Burnie & North West Coastal Ports 1890 - 1899.'
part CD
Electoral Roll Commonwealth 1903
1 Film
Electoral Rolls (Early of Australia (Commonwealth - NSW (1903), QLD (1903),
      SA (1909 State), TAS (1903), VIC (1903), WA (1901)
CD
Electoral Roll Commonwealth 1934
CD
Electoral Roll Commonwealth 1939
CD
Electoral Roll Federal  2000
20 fiche
Paracensus of Australia  (Donohoe publication)  1788 -1828
CD

GENEALOGY

People of Norfolk Island & Van Diemen's Land and their families 1788-1820 (Donohoe Publication)
CD
Tasmania, the People and their Families 1803-1820 (Donohoe Publication)
CD


If you are unable to visit the AIGS Library to use any of the above resources
why not make use of our Research Service

HOME | NEXT

Copyright ©  Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc. 2012
Updated 14th November 2012