Founders and Survivors: Life Course Ships Project

Dataset of 25,000 convicts who were transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on 126 convict ships, 1812-1853. Contains around 100 variables on early life, crime and sentence, behaviour and punishment under sentence, family formation, post-sentence life, descendants, and date and details of death. Sources include convict records; birth, death and marriage registrations; census records; newspapers; police gazettes; and other administrative and historical sources. Part of the larger 'Founders and Survivors' Project.

本数据集涵盖1812年至1853年间，搭乘126艘流放船被遣送至范迪门地（Van Diemen's Land，即现今塔斯马尼亚州Tasmania）的25000名流放犯的相关信息。数据集包含约100项变量，涉及流放犯早年生平、犯罪与判决详情、服刑期间行为表现与惩处措施、家庭组建状况、刑满释放后的生活情况、后裔信息，以及死亡日期与细节等多个维度。数据来源包括流放犯档案、出生、死亡与婚姻登记记录、人口普查资料、报纸、警务公报及其他行政与历史文献资料。本数据集隶属于更大规模的「创始者与幸存者」（Founders and Survivors）研究项目。