NRS-1343 | Norfolk Island: Register of persons receiving rations

This is a register of all people, whatever their status, entering Norfolk Island. Its purpose was to record the number of days each person was supplied with food rations from the Commissariat stores. Governor King's instructions to the Commissary in 1800 required such a register to be kept at each branch of the Commissariat and it was called a Victualling Book. There are separate portions of the register for: Civil Officers; Military; Settlers and Free People (Male); Male Convicts; Free Women; Female Convicts; Children of Civil, Military, and Free; and Children of Convicts. The following details are given: registered number, date of entry to Norfolk Island, from where, name of person, status or rank, whether discharged or dead, date of discharge or death, name of ship in which departed, and the number of days victualled in each year. (ML A1958; microfilm copy in State Records at SR Reel 2747). 1 vol. Note: This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.