Sources
Background
Criminal Ancestors, David T Hawkings
“A Brief History of Darlaston” website
Staffordshire Past-track website
Australian Dictionary of Biography
General
UK
Census Returns 1841-1911
Post Office and Commercial Directories
GRO BMD Indexes and Certificates
UK Probate Index and Wills
Estate Duty Register
BMSGH Indexes to Staffordshire BMD
Staffordshire
Record Office & William Salt Library
Staffordshire Parish Registers
Rate Books for Brewood D/1143/
Willenhall & Bentley School Board Records D231/
Local Maps
Walsall Local
History Centre
Ledger of Silas Duffield, Ref. 280/36
Newspaper
Collections – British Library and Online
London Gazette (Online)
Walsall Observer
The Midland Observer
Wolverhampton Express & Star
Wolverhampton Chronicle
Staffordshire Advertiser
The Times
Hue & Cry
British Library
Patent Office Records
Society of
Genealogists, London
Staffordshire Parish Registers
Teacher’s Registration Council Records
The National
Archive, UK (some via Online Indexes)
Assize Records - Crown Minute Books Ref. ASSI2/30,
ASSI11
- Indictment
Files Ref. ASI5/140/16
Oxford Circuit Judges Papers HO13/34 and HO6/5
- Criminal Entry
Books HO13/18
Staffordshire - Sheriff’s Payments Ref. T90/170,
T90/169
- Sheriff’s
Cravings Ref. E370/48, E389/252
Hulk Leviathan - Registers and Letter Books
Ref.HO9/8
- List for
Mitigation HO17/81 Pl 44
- Quarterly
Returns of Convicts HO8/9-10
- Recommendation
for Pardon HO17/112
Petitions - HO17/92
Transportation Registers HO11
Tithe Maps & Records – IR18, IR29, IR30, IR90
1910 Valuation Act Records – IR129, IR58
General
Australian Sources and Correspondents.
Society of
Australian Genealogists
Fay Duffield of Goondiwindi, Queensland
NSW & Queensland
Records
State Library of Queensland Online resources
NSW Registry of BMD – Historical Indexes
Convict Musters for 1820, 1828, 1837
NSW 1841 Census
Ticket of Leave Registers
Convict Pardons
Register of Convict’s Applications to Marry
(Ancestry database)
Colonial Secretary Correspondence Index
