Databases and Indexes

Further details of many of these database indexes may be available through the Geelong Family History Group.

Make sure you look at the two Research Options on their website and most importantly follow the link to the GFHG Research Files Catalogue List to check for these or many more indexes and documents.

• Geelong Gaol Administrative Records
• Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne
• VPRS 8064 Unit 1 [1851-1868]
• IMPORTANT: This is NOT a register of all prisoners - only those who were punished during this period, and the turnkeys associated with them
• If you are unable to view the register at the Public Record Office, the information can be provided if submitted via a formal Research Request to the Geelong Family History Group

• NAME: Name [prisoner or turnkey]
• DATE: of punishment [these are recorded in chronological order in the register]
• COMMENT: punishment of prisoner or role / position of turnkey
• REFERENCE: VPRS number, UNIT number and page number [for turnkey entries]

• 599 entries

• Gaol Rules and Punishments - sent from the Colonial Secretary's Office for Gaols, Prisons and Houses of Correction in the Colony of New South Wales and its dependancies
• Salaries
• Requisitions - furniture, repairs to buildings, stationery, ironmongery, printed forms, hardware, bedding, clothing
• Incidental expenses
• Punishments handed out by Turnkeys - included in this database - prisoners having broken regulations - smoking, fighting, disobedience, insolence, vandalism, obscene language etc. - were written up in this book along with the name of the Turnkey reporting the incident; type of punishment handed out; and who the punishment was ordered by [Gaoler or Visiting Justice]
• List of Gaol Turnkeys - included in this database - and any offences committed.