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Index to Convict Applications For Permissions to Marry 1829-1857

People who were convicts in Tasmania were not permitted to marry either each other or free people without approval from the Convict Department authorities. This index is to applications for permission to marry and it is important to keep in mind that not all applications were approved and therefore the people applying may not have married. The actual applications have not survived and registers (CON45, CON52) have been the source for this index. These registers have a two-line entry for each application.
The information listed is: applicant's surname given name; an extra identifier (if two convicts arrived on the same ship and had the same name); the name of the ship the convict arrived on, or 'free' if the person was not a convict or had become free by the time of the application made by the person who was still a convict; (these four fields are repeated for the other person); the date of the application; the reference number for the application; the reference number (RGD37/...) for the marriage record if this has been included.
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Many of the convict's records are available online, linked from the index to Tasmanian convicts. Copies of those not online, or of identified marriage records, can be obtained by completing our online copy request form, by personally visiting us, or by writing to us.

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