FAS Convict Ship 356.23 Castle Forbes arrived 1820 at VDL Prosopography Index

This collection provides a complete list of convict names and sufficient biographical data to enable unambiguous identification of convicts who were disembarked from convict ship "Castle Forbes" at Van Diemen's Land on 1820-03-01

This includes, where known, an estimation of the year of birth, place of birth, where and when convicted, the sentence, the date of arrival in the colony and the convict's age on arrival. The brief convict biographical data provided in this collection serves as an index into the far more extensive set of life course events which are recorded in the prosopgraphy database built by the Founders and Survivors project.

Basic details for this ship:
* ship name (as known in VDL records): Castle Forbes
* sailed date : 1819-10-03 from Ireland
* arrival date : 1820-03-01
* population (per Bateson's The Convict Ships): Embarked:140 Men ; Landed:4(NSW) and 136(VDL) Men

Data for convicts listed in this collection comes from the source which has been determined by Founders and Survivors to form the "base population" for this ship. Further information as to the methodology and the linkage of multiple sources is detailed in the narrative format of the collection. The matching and linkage of additional sources about Tasmanian convict's is the subject of ongoing research. This collection may be repuplished regularly, and in additional formats and with specific user interfaces, to enable public participation in the quality of convict matching and linkage -- see for example the EXPERIMENTAL linkage.htm format for this collection.
Linkage for ships arriving at Norfolk Island and Port Philip is incomplete.

This ship's prosopography index is published in a directory named "356.23" (the ship's project id). Three three different file formats provided:
-- (default; suitable for web browsing) HTML: world wide web hypertext markup language format which provides a "narrative" view of the collection (index.htm); and
-- (structured prosopgraphy: persons and events) XML / TEIp5 : Text Encoding Initiative (version p5) XML format which provides the underlying XML database for this collection (index.xml); and
-- [Not yet available] (row/column flat) simple list of convict names in a flat file, tab delimited, suitable for Excel, Stata, SPSS or database usage (index.tab). See notes below.

本数据集收录了完整的囚犯姓名列表与详实的生平资料，可精准识别1820年3月1日于范迪门地（Van Diemen's Land）从定罪运输船"Castle Forbes"下船的所有囚犯。

若资料可查，本数据集还包含囚犯的出生年份估算值、出生地、定罪地点与时间、刑罚内容、抵达殖民地的日期，以及囚犯抵境时的年龄。本数据集收录的简要囚犯生平资料，可作为索引，用于检索“创生者与幸存者”（Founders and Survivors）项目构建的人物志数据库（prosopography database）中记录的海量人生历程事件。

本运输船的基本信息如下：
* 范迪门地档案记载的船名：Castle Forbes
* 起航日期：1819年10月3日，出发地为爱尔兰
* 抵达日期：1820年3月1日
* 人员规模（引自贝茨逊所著《定罪运输船》（The Convict Ships））：登船人数140名男性；下船人数：4名前往新南威尔士（New South Wales, NSW）、136名前往范迪门地（Van Diemen's Land, VDL）的男性。

本数据集收录的囚犯数据，源自“创生者与幸存者”项目认定的本船基准人群数据源。关于多源数据整合的方法学细节，已在本数据集的叙事性说明文档中详述。针对塔斯马尼亚囚犯的额外数据源匹配与整合工作，目前仍在持续研究中。本数据集将定期以新增格式与专属用户界面重新发布，以吸纳公众参与囚犯匹配与整合工作的质量优化——例如可参考本数据集的【实验性整合页面（EXPERIMENTAL linkage.htm）】。截至目前，针对抵达诺福克岛与菲利普港的运输船的数据源整合工作尚未完成。

本船的人物志索引以编号为"356.23"的目录发布（该编号为本船的项目ID）。本数据集共提供三种文件格式：
-- （默认格式，适用于网页浏览）超文本标记语言（HTML）格式：以叙事性视图展示本数据集的网页格式（index.htm）；
-- （结构化人物志：人物与事件）XML/TEIp5格式：采用文本编码倡议第五版（Text Encoding Initiative p5, TEIp5）的XML格式，为本数据集提供底层XML数据库支持（index.xml）；
-- 【暂未上线】（行列式纯文本）纯制表符分隔的囚犯姓名列表格式，适用于Excel、Stata、SPSS或数据库导入使用（index.tab）。详见下文备注。