Primary sources
The first place to start with convict history is Fremantle Prison’s convict database: an A-Z listing of all the convicts transported to Western Australia from 1850 to 1868.
You’ll find Edwin listed under S, convict number 6101.
Miscellaneous sources:
Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages Western Australia, South Australia, England and Scotland
UK Census records
Western Australia’s newspapers – available via Trove or microfilm at the Battye Library, Western Australia
UK newspapers – The Times, The Scotsman, The Daily Courant, The Lichfield Mercury
Landgate, Western Australia
Outward passenger lists to Adelaide from WA 1880-1890, SLSA 8027 7250
Extracts from registers of vessels (arrivals and departures) Port Adelaide January – June 1886, National Archives of Australia
Crawford, W. (1862). The surgeon’s daily log, convict ship Lincelles. Western Australia: Battye Library.
Gregg, J. (1862).[Diary]. Perth, Western Australia: Battye Library.
Sisters of Mercy. (1875). List of children admitted by Government. [Ledger book entry 103: Catherine Salt]. Sisters of Mercy Archives, Perth, Western Australia
State Records Office of Western Australia:
Perth Police Court charge books: AN17/ACC 1386
Superintendent’s Orders, Fremantle Prison 1850-1864: ACC 1156 SO1-13
Colonial Secretary’s Office correspondence: ACC51 Vol 5
Prisoners’ property book: ACC 1536/14
Various correspondence, 1875: CSR Vol 791/232
National Archives, Kew, London:
Customs and Excise Department: CUST 47, CUST 116
Home Office: HO8/147; HO8/149; HO12/125/39772; HO13/106; HO22/12; HO25/8
National Records of Scotland:
Crown Office precognitions AD14/60/269
Papers relating to the trial of Edwin Thomas Salt JC26/1860/277
Remissions JC8/66/67
Edinburgh Prison Letter Book: HH/12/13
Lichfield Records Office:
Plan of St Michael’s Parish 1849
Her Majesty’s report on Lichfield minors’ school, 1860 D30/12/64
Records relating to the Cross Keys Inn, 368/128
Lichfield St Mary tithe award book 1850, B/A/562
Slaters Directory of Staffordshire 1850
Post Office Directory of Staffordshire 1860
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