ABBREVIATIONS and COMMONLY USED TERMS Use capitals at the beginning of proper nouns. i.e. peoples names e.g. John Smith, place names e.g. Snake Banks,...
ABBREVIATIONS and COMMONLY USED TERMS Use capitals at the beginning of proper nouns. i.e. peoples names e.g. John Smith, place names e.g. Snake Banks, positions of authority e.g. Lieutenant Governor. * Write St. not Saint, e.g. the ship St. Vincent * Write Mt. not Mount, e.g. the ship Mt. Stewart Elphinstone * Write No. not Number, in the case of No. 3 Chain Gang. * Write the number that comes after a ship name in brackets e.g. Arab (1). * Write Port Arthur in full, especially if in the tried/approved column as it could be mistaken for initials of a Magistrate. Write h.l.c. in full.
Note: "fs" is often ss, eg afsigned = assigned 1st / 2nd / 3rd class 7MC or SMC
1st / 2nd /3rd class Probation Pass Holder Seven Mile Creek
&c
etc.
A
appd or apprehd or apphd appg arrd Ass assd or afsd or assgd assgt Assignle Pty Asst asstg At hulk Ava
Aunt (usually seen in Remarks on indent) absconded Australian Colonies (eg Conditional Pardon approved for the AC) according account addition added to probation admonished assignable against Antill Ponds apartments (as in separate apartments) Assistant/Acting Police Magistrate (See note in Appendix 8) approved apprehended appearing arrived Assizes assigned assignment Assignable Party Assistant assaulting (Refers to Hulk report) Avoca
B b&w BL Backwd beatg Bks
Brother (usually seen in Remarks on indent) bread and water Both a little (referring to literacy) Backward (physical description) beating barracks
abscd AC accg acct addn addd to pr admond afse or afsble or afsle agt Ant Ponds apartts APM appd
Blk B Magistrate Bn or Brighn Both Br B Rr Burg burglary
Black (physical description) Bench Magistrate Brighton Both [Read and write] Brown (physical description) Brown's River Burgess (near Port Sorell) burglariously (not burglary)
calr Can R & W Can R & W a little Cas Fac Casc
calendar
CC CC CC CCC CCP CDC CE Cert CGM or CG Memo or CG’s Memo CG's Memo ch CH gang CH or C Hill Charr or Character in gaol C Hat Hill chd C Head Chf
Can read and write Can read and write a little Cascades Factory Cascades (if followed by a person’s name refers to Cascades Hobart, otherwise Tasmans Peninsula) Chief Constable Chief Clerk (time chiefly taken up with examination of convict applications for indulgences) Circuit Court Civil Commandant Clerk Council Central Criminal Court (also known as Old Bailey) Colonial Conditional Pardon Chief District Constable Conditionally Emancipated Certificate [of Freedom] Comptroller General’s Memorandum Comptroller General's Memo (often preceded by 'vide') children Custom House gang Constitution Hill Refers to Gaol report Cocked Hat Hill child Circular Head Chief
ch g or ch gang chs Chs report
chain gang chains [On] Chairman's report
Church Committee CJ or Ct of Justy Cl Cl Court Cl M s
(at Oatlands) Court of Justiciary Central Criminal Court –see also CCC Coal Mines
Cl Plns clk CM CO C of E COHB Col
Clarence Plains clerk Court Martial Colonial Office Church of England Charles O'Hara Booth Colonial
CC CC
Col Sec Letter Col Hosp Col Sec Memo commd
Colonial Secretary's Letter Colonial Hospital Colonial Secretary's Memo commended
Conv Mar Dept convd CP or Cond Pardon CPM CS CS CSCO Ct M l
Convict Marine Department convicted Conditional Pardon Chief Police Magistrate Church of Scotland (under religion) Colonial Service/Servitude Colonial Service. Colonial Office (usually followed by a date and preceded by a period of time e.g. 12 months C.S. C.O. 18/4/1846).) Court Martial
DACG Darln
Deputy Assistant Commissary General Darlington (Maria Is)
DC DCG DCG decn Delne
District Constable Department of Comptroller General Deputy Commissionary-General (?) Check this decision Deloraine
detn
detention discharged
dischd
complaint
connections (pertaining to relations or friends) constable
disd or dismd disobce
dismissed
Dis [1 class or in relation to conduct on probation] dist distg Distt Dk dk & disy
Disobedient
Dk Br or Dk Bro dks DLn
Dark brown (physical description) drunkenness Depot Launceston
do Do D. of H. Doug R Cl Cy D. River C. Compy drunkfs
ditto Ditto (in physical description, dittoing the previous entry) District of Hobarton Douglas River Coal Company Douglas River Coal Company drunkenness
t
st
disobedience
disobedient disturbing District Dark (physical description) drunk and disorderly
Dunr durg
Dunrobin
dw or dwg
dwelling
E B Neck EHN embd entd
East Bay Neck (Dunalley) Eagle Hawk Neck embarked entered
EO
Ecclesiastical Objection (with regards to permission to marry applications) evening
eveg
during
examn or examon exg
examination
exe
execution expiration
n
expirn Extd
existing
extended
F F& M Facty
Father (usually seen in Remarks on indent, but also on conduct record) father and mother [Female] Factory [Hobart]
Facty Ln FB FC or Free Cert fd secreted fely Fl or Fingl
[Female] Factory Launceston Flinders Bay Free Certificate found secereted feloniously (not felony) Fingal
F. Is flagellr
Flinders Island flagellator
FLbr or Fm Lbrr Fm
Farm labourer Farm
fm Fm Svt fo f. order FP FPNN fprisoner Frankn
from Farm Servant [until] further orders further orders Field Police Field Police New Norfolk fellow prisoner Franklin
Free passage for W&F allowed FS or F by S f w pr
Free passage for wife and family allowed. Free by servitude fellow prisoner
G or Gl Gaol Delivery Gaoler’s report GD gd
Gaol
G Dn
Governor's Decision
(See Glossary) (Refers to Gaol report) Gaol Delivery gained
General Sessions G.F. GG GIC Gleny
(A court) Gaol Fingal Gaol gang Governor in Council Glenorchy
GNN or GlNN GO or G Oats Gor R Govt
Gaol New Norfolk
GP or GPds GR GR Stn Great Sessions GS GSP GSPR Gt
Green Ponds
GT or GeoT GTH
George Town Grass Tree Hill
Hamn handd
Hamilton
Hbt or Hobt HC HCHT Her MG Launceston hl hlc HM Col. Hospital Ho maid hospl
Hobart
hosplsn HR Hse of Ass
hospitalisation Hulk report House of Assembly
Hse of Correctn or HCn HT or HTown HWH or HW Hill IB or I Bay or Imp Bay ID (NN) or IDNN
House of Correction
impertt impt
impertinent
Impt ins instt
Imperfect (eg Imperfect shoemaker) inside (eg inside right arm seen in physical description) instant (relating to the day of the current month)
insubordn intoxn
insubordination
Gaol Oatlands Gordon River Government Gaol report aka Penitentiary Report Gordon River Station (A court) General Sessions Greater Swanport General Sessions Police Report Great
handcuffed (especially in Norfolk Is records) House of Correction House of Correction Hobart Town Her Majesty’s Gaol, Launceston hard labour hard labour chains Her/His Majesty’s Colonial Hospital House maid hospital
Hobart Town Half Way Hill Impression Bay Invalid Depot (New Norfolk)
imprisonment
intoxication
Jerm Jero
Jerusalem
J.R.
Judge’s report ( see also vide J.R.)
KGardr or K Gardener KPt
Kitchen gardener Kangaroo Point
L
lashes (eg 50 L) labourer
labr Larceny and p.c. Ld or Longfd
Jericho
Larceny and previous conviction Longford
LGDn or Lt Gov Decn Ln or Launcn
Lieutenant Governor's Decision (usually preceded by ‘vide’)
LOB Lpool St L. Point lt
Little Oyster Bay Liverpool St Long Point left, or light (check context)
Mersey (probation station) Mother (usually seen in Remarks on indent, but also on conduct record) Married Medium (physical description) Macquarie St making
Mals Huts Mar Dt or Mar Dept or M Dept
Malcolm's Huts
Mc Hr
Macquarie Harbour
Med Dt or Med Dept medm
Medical Department
Memo mer conduct messr or mefsr
Memorandum meritorious conduct messenger
MH
Medium height (physical description) Middlesex
Middx MIs misct or miscont ML MM Office morng Morven mos or mths
Launceston
Marine Department
medium
Maria Island misconduct Medium length (physical description) Muster Master’s Office morning (place in NW Tasmania) months
MW
Medium width (physical description)
N or N/N/ or Neither na New On School
Neither [read nor write] not available New Orphan School
NH NN
North Huon New Norfolk North Huon
North Hn NP or N Plns NR NT NTB NTFm
Norfolk Plains Nicholl’s Rivulet New Town New Town Bay New Town Farm
ntu N W Bay N Wharf
not taken up (associated with a freedom such as conditional pardon) North West Bay New Wharf
Oats OBB O Beach obtg
Oatlands
OHD On board or
Oatlands Hiring Depot (Refers to Surgeon’s report) other
ORd origl
Oatlands Road [Party]
orwise or orwise OW Oy Cove or O Cove Oyer & Terminer
otherwise Old Wharf Oyster Cove (See Glossary)
P or Pn
(May refer to Probation. See Police Number) Port Arthur
Port Cygnet Penal Establishment Port Esperance (usually in LH column on probation conduct records) Penal Establishment Launceston
Penquite Peny or Penitenty
(place in Launceston) Penitentiary
Pept Bay Perpr petg
Peppermint Bay
petn P Gang or Pn Gang PGL PG PB
petition
Perpendicular (physical description) petitioning Probation Gang Probation Gang Labour Probation Gang Prisoners’ Barracks
PH or P Holder Pl cook Pleas of Crown Mote Plo’man PM pn Pn PO Ponte
Pass Holder Plain cook (related to a court) Ploughman Police Magistrate (may also be someone's initials) proper name Petition (if followed by a freedom e.g. Pn TL) Police Office Pontville
Port E. possn
Port Esperance possession
Poss. or Possy
Possibly (e.g. possibly absconded for good). Used in comments columns. Point Puer
PP or PtPr P Pass PPH ppty PR Presb princl
Parson's Pass Probation Pass Holder property Police Report Presbyterian principal
Prison report prisr
(Refers to Gaol report) prisoner
probn propy
probation
Pros Plns or P Plns prosr or prr prosx Prot PS PS or P Secy
Prossers Plains prosecutor prosecutrix Protestant Police/Principal Superintendent (See note in Appendix 8) Private Secretary
PSC P S sentence PTL or Pn TL Pty PW
Principal Superintendent of Convicts Penal servitude sentence Petition for Ticket of Leave Party Public Works
QG Q O School QS or Qtr Sessns
Quarry Gang Queen's Orphan School Quarter Sessions
R & W or RW RC RC Bp
read & write Roman Catholic
Rd Rd Pty recd
Road [party]
recommd or recd RE Dept remd
recommended
property
Roman Catholic Bishop Road Party received Royal Engineer’s Department removed
remr repd or reptd reprimd or repd
remainder
resistg retd Revd RK RHills Richd
resisting returned Reverend Robert Knopwood Rocky Hills
rivt R/L R/N Rofs R. of S.
rivulet
S S satisfacty Saty
Single (marital status) Sister (usually seen in Remarks on indent) satisfactorily (not satisfactory)
S. Arm SB SB or S Bay SC or Sup Ct SCCJ Secy
South Arm Snake Banks Sandy Bay Supreme Court Supreme Court of Criminal Jurisdiction
sentce Sep treatment servt
sentence
SH or S Hill SMC or 7MC SMP or St MP SMV soly or soly conft SP Sp Bay S Port SPP SR ss treatment stg
Spring Hill Seven Mile Creek St Mary's Pass St Mary's Vale solitary or solitary confinement Sessions of Peace (a court) Spring Bay Southport or Swanport (sometimes hard to determine the correct one) St Peter's Pass Surgeon’s report strict separate treatment
Stipy Mag Supt
Stipendiary Magistrate
suspd SWC SWR
suspended or suspected
TB T Box Bay THP threatg
Tunbridge Tinder Box Bay Three Hut Point threatening
reported reprimanded
Richmond Read little Read [not] write Ross Remission of sentence
Saturday
Secretary Separate treatment servant
stealing Superintendent Salt Water Creek Salt Water River
TL or T Leave tobco TP TR transpd transpn TSGang tu Tunb TW or TWheel twc T work
Ticket of Leave tobacco Tasmans Peninsula T Reiby (person) transported transportation Town Surveyors Gang taken up (with regards to Conditional Pardon) Tunbridge tread wheel task work credits task work
U ulto uptg U.S.
Uncle (usually seen in Remarks on indent) ultimo (relating to the day of the previous month) upturning under sentence
v vagt vagy vide Vide J.R. Vide LGD Vide Memo of Col Secy VM VV
value vagrant vagrancy (Latin for ‘see’) Vide Judge’s report Vide Lieutenant Governor’s Decision Vide Memorandum of Colonial Secretary Visiting Magistrate Victoria Valley
W W WB wh wo or witht or wt W Tiers W Tub
Wife Widower/widowed Wedge Bay with without Western Tiers Wash Tub
yesty York NR QS York WR QS
Yesterday York North Riding Quarter Sessions York West Riding Quarter Sessions
EXAMPLES OF MISCELLANEOUS TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS [33] days gd by task work 12 mths CS CO 12/12/56 14 days tw 2 days hlc 48 hrs sc on b & w Abt w/out leave CP appd for AC Confessed this offence D & disy F & M at NP Found in a disy ho’ James Smith (1st) On New Book S or M not stated Stlg in a dw ho’ TL restored, absence actd for TL revoked, absent from muster Tried with Smith 1103/7 and Jones 1180/Life US to BW
[33] days gained by task work 12 months Colonial ServiceColonial Office 12/12/1856 14 days tread wheel 2 days hard labour in chains 48 hours solitary confinement on bread and water Absent without leave Conditional Pardon approved for Australian Colonies (Same as stated this offence) Drunk and disorderly Father and mother at native place Found in a disorderly house (One of a number of convicts with the same name on the same ship) (Refers to another record at the AOT) Single or married not stated Stealing in a dwelling house Ticket of leave restored, absence accounted for Ticket of leave revoked absent from muster Tried with Smith, [Police No] 1103 [and sentenced to] 7 years, and Jones [Police No] 1180 [and sentenced to] Life Under sentence to Bridgewater
