List of Tickets of Leave. Registers of Certificates of Freedom

The Convict Records of Australia.

NRS-1166 List of Tickets of Leave issued, 1810-14.

A Ticket of Leave allowed convicts to work for themselves on condition that they remained in a specified area, reported regularly to the local authorities and if at all possible, attended Church every Sunday. These lists from July 1810 to October 1814 are the earliest surviving ticket of leave records.

The Convict Records of Australia reflect the forced emigration to the continent of Australia of 165,000 people in the 180 years between 1788-1868, representing the beginning of the modern age of globalization by a government agency. These records contain information relating to all aspects of convicts’ lives, including: physical appearance, literacy level, trade or calling, crime and sentence, behavior in incarceration, further punishment, pardon, ticket of leave, and marriage. The forensic details about individual convicts have enabled historians to build a picture of the human capital that shaped the economy, demography, and culture of early colonial Australia.