Early convict butts reveal ‘license to play’ for well-performing prisoners
Posted by Web Operations on January 22, 2011 in ConvictsWe recently launched online for the first time the more than 42,000 Australian convict records in the NSW Tickets of Leave Butts 1824-1867. The collection includes Registers of Tickets of Leave 1824-1827, which offers prisoner details in ledger format, and Ticket of Leave Butts 1827-1867. The butts were essentially copies of the ‘Tickets’ given to Read More