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Biographical
databases featuring famous and everyday Australians.
Births,
Deaths & Marriages in
New South Wales
are recorded by the NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages.
The Registry currently holds in excess of 17 million records including
early church records (baptismal, marriages and burials) from 1788 to
1855; and birth, death and marriage registrations from 1856 to the present day.
Records are labelled Restricted or Unrestricted
according to classification. Restricted records are only available to the person named on the certificate
(identification required). Unrestricted records are open to all
(identification is not required). A record is unrestricted if -
birth occurred between 1788 to 1907; death
occurred more than 30 years ago; or marriage occurred more than 50 years ago.
Births,
Deaths & Marriages in
Australia
vary according to the state or territory of
registration. Not all States are available online.
Births,
Deaths & Marriages in
the United Kingdom prior to 1837 were recorded in the parish registers as baptism, marriage and burial records.
All births, marriages and deaths post 1837 are recorded at the register office in the district where the event took place.
Births,
Deaths & Marriages
Worldwide vary according to the administration of the respective
country.
Census
Records Australia:
the first
organised survey of the New South Wales population occurred in 1795
in response to Governor Hunter's call for a muster of the inhabitants.
Musters provided both a population count and a formal record as
to whether the individual received provisions from the
Government. General musters, which included all the inhabitants of the Colony,
were generally held once a year between 1795 and 1825.
These were supplement by individual musters which counted
settlers, livestock, convicts, females and children. The first census was held in November 1828;
then 1833, 1836, 1841, 1846, 1851, 1856, 1861 and subsequent
decades till 1901. Unfortunately only the 1841, 1891 (no
names) and 1901 census have survived, at least within
Australia (a copy of the 1828 Census is available from the
National Archives in England.
Note: Indigenous Australians were not included in the
Commonwealth Census until a referendum saw the abolishment of
Section 127 of the Constitution in 1967.
Census
Records for the United Kingdom
are available from 1841 to 1901 at Ancestry.com.au
via subscription; GenSleuth.com
offers a fee-based look-up
service; while an incomplete index is available for FREE
at FREECen;
the 1881 British Census is FREE
to view at Family
Search. A number of Regional Indexes (Reg) are also
available for FREE.
1841 -
Conducted on the night of 6 June 1841 (15
years & over had age rounded down to the nearest 5 years)
1851 -
Conducted on the night of 30 March 1851 (30/31 March
1851 in Scotland)
1861 -
Conducted on the night of 7 April 1861 (7/8 April
1861 in Scotland)
1871 -
Conducted on the night of 2 April 1871 (2/3 April
1871 in Scotland)
1881 -
Conducted on the night of 3 April 1881
1891 -
Conducted on the night of 5 April 1891
1901 -
Conducted on the night of 31 March 1901
Channel
Islands | England | England
(Reg) |
Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | Scotland
(Reg)
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(Reg)
Channel
Islands | England | England
(Reg) | Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | Scotland
(Reg) |
Wales | Wales (Reg)
Channel
Islands | England | England
(Reg) |
Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | Scotland
(Reg) | Wales | Wales
(Reg)
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Bath
& Surrounding Area 1841 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Eggington 1851 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Great Barford 1841 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Great Barford 1851 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Great Barford 1861 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Great Barford 1871 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Great Barford 1891 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Great Barford 1901 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Harlington 1841 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Harlington 1851 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Harlington 1861 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Harlington 1871 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Harlington 1881 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Harlington 1891 Census Index |
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Bedfordshire,
Harlington 1901 Census Index |
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Cambridgeshire 1851 Census Index |
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Cheshire,
Cuddington 1851 Census Index |
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Cheshire,
Macclesfield Union Workhouse 1881 Census Index
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Cheshire,
Stockport Union Workhouse 1881 Census Index |
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Cornwall,
1841 Census by Hundreds |
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Cornwall,
1851 Census by Registration Districts |
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Cornwall,
1861 Census by Registration Districts |
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Cornwall,
1871 Census by Registration Districts |
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Cornwall,
1881 Census by Registration Districts |
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Cornwall,
1891 Census by Registration Districts |
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Cornwall,
1901 Census by Registration Districts |
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Cumberland,
Whitehaven Union Workhouse 1881 Census Index |
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Derbyshire, Stoney Middleton 1851 Census Index |
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Devon, Petrockstowe 1851 Census Index |
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Dorset,
Tarrant Crawford 1851 Census Index |
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Gloucestershire
1851,1861,1871,1881,1891 Partial Census (indexed by
district) |
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Hampshire 1851 Census Index |
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Royal Navy
Ships 1901 Census Index |
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Warwickshire
1851,1861,1871,1881,1891 Partial Census (indexed by
district) |
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Worcestershire
1851,1861,1871,1881,1891 Partial Census (indexed by
district) |
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(Reg) | Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | Scotland
(Reg) | Wales | Wales
(Reg)
Channel
Islands | England | England
(Reg)
| Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland |
Scotland | Scotland (Reg)
| Wales | Wales (Reg)
Channel
Islands | England | England
(Reg) | Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | Scotland
(Reg) | Wales | Wales
(Reg)
Channel
Islands | England | England
(Reg) | Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | Scotland
(Reg) |
Wales | Wales (Reg)
Channel
Islands | England | England
(Reg) | Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | Scotland
(Reg) | Wales | Wales
(Reg)
Channel
Islands | England | England
(Reg) | Isle of Man | Northern
Ireland | Scotland | Scotland
(Reg) | Wales | Wales
(Reg)
Census
Records for the Ireland
were mostly destroyed by
fire. Only extracts of the original records previously
transcribed by genealogists survive. Commencing circa
1848, Griffith's Valuations offer an alternative. The
valuations feature a list renters and associated property
owners.
Note that a
number of local Irish census extracts are listed by
order of county at Census
Finder.
Census
Records Worldwide
vary according to the country of administration.
Electoral
Rolls in Australia include Local, State and
Federal. From 1843 to 1856, only men owning freehold property
or of wealth were permitted to vote. From 1858, all adult males who had lived in the electorate for the preceding six months, and who were British subjects by birth, or had been naturalised for five years and had lived in the colony for the preceding two
years were required to vote (excluding police, serving members of the armed forces, paupers,
prisoners and the indigenous). In 1893, the property vote
and the six months residence requirement were abolished.
In 1902, Australian women gained the right to vote in both Commonwealth and New South Wales elections.
In 1955, electors of either sex had to be British subjects by birth or naturalisation and be aged 21 years or more. In the case of New South Wales, electors must have lived in Australia for six months, in the state for three months and in the relevant electoral sub-division for one month before enrolment.
In 1962, Aborigines were given the option
to vote in Federal Elections but were still denied a vote in
State elections. Compulsory enrolment and voting for
Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders was not
introduced until 1984.
Click
Here for a complete Guide to Electoral Milestones (off
site)
Note: Until 1970 an 'adult' was classified as 21 years of
age and over. By 1974, the Commonwealth and other states had
dropped the age to 18 years.
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Australian
Electoral Rolls 1901-1936 (limited
dates available) |
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ACT
Electoral Rolls |
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NSW
Electoral Rolls 1928 & 1935 |
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NSW
Electoral Rolls 1930 & 1936 |
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QLD
Electoral Rolls 1895, 1900, 1903, 1905, 1913,
1919, 1925, 1930, 1936 & 1949 |
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TAS
Electoral Rolls 1914, 1919, 1928 & 1936 |
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VIC
Electoral Rolls 1856, 1903, 1909, 1914, 1919,
1924, 1931 & 1936 |
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WA
Electoral Rolls 1901, 1906, 1916, 1925 & 1936 |
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Indigenous
databases are limited. For detailed
information on researching Indigenous family history in
the State of New South Wales see:
A
Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to
Aboriginal People; and (or)
Connecting
kin: guide to records
- a guide to help people separated from their families
search for their records.
Military
records within Australia are readily available from
the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives of
Australia.
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ANZAC Memorial, 1914-1918
(requires free
account
registration) |
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Australian
Army War Diaries |
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Australian
Military Forces (AMF) Prisoner of War and Missing, Far
East and South West Pacific Islands |
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Australian
Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files |
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British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 |
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British Army WWI Pension Records |
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British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 |
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British Naval Biographical Dictionary, 1849 |
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Closer
Settlement and Returned Soldier's Transfer files,
1907-1936, 1951 |
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Commemorative
Roll (AUS) |
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Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815 |
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Great Britain Army War List, January 1893 |
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Great
Britain Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, 1914-1924 |
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Honours
and Awards (AUS) |
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Honours
and Awards AU (Gazetted) |
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Honours
and Awards AU (Recommendations: First World War) |
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Honours
and Awards AU (Index: Second World War, Korean War and
Malayan Emergency) |
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Indian
Army Quarterly List, 1 January 1912 (UK) |
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Nominal
Rolls (AUS) |
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Nominal
Roll Sudan
War, 1885 |
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Nominal
Roll Boer
War, 1899-1902 |
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Nominal
Roll Boxer
Uprising, 1900-1901 |
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Nominal
Roll WWI, 1914-1918 |
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Nominal
Roll WWII, 1939-1945 |
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Nominal
Roll Korean War, 1950-1953 |
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Nominal
Roll Vietnam War, 1962-1975 |
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Nominal
Roll Gulf War, 1990-1991 |
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NSW
Contingent to the Sudan, 1885 |
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Official
Records Database: Memorial's Official Records
Collection (AUS) |
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Prisoners of War and Missing in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands
(AUS) |
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Queenslanders
in the South African War, 1899-1902 |
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Rebellion of 1837, Upper Canada
(CAN) |
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Remembrance
Book |
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Lists
members of the Australian Defence Force who have
died on operations after 30 June 1947 designated
as non-warlike service and its equivalent. |
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Roll
of Honour (AUS) |
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Royal Irish Constabulary
(IRL) |
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Soldiers
& Marines Index - Pay Lists, Muster Rolls
1787-1830 (AUS) |
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State-level
Lists of Casualties from the Korean War, 1951-1957
(USA) |
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State-level
Lists of Casualties from the Vietnam War, 1956-
(USA) |
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WWI Embarkation
Roll (AUS) |
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WWI
Personnel Files (Search via name at the NAA for
original documents) |
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WWII
Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
(USA) |
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WWII
Dead and Missing from Army and Army Air Forces
(USA) |
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Miscellaneous
databases that pertain to Australian genealogy and social history.
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Auctioneers
Database |
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9,300
persons listed in the New South Wales Government
Gazette as having held a New South Wales
Auctioneers licence at some stage over the period
1848 to 1900. |
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Australian
Newspapers |
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Access
to historic Australian newspapers digitised as
part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation
Program. |
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Braidwood
Gaol Admission Register, 1856-1899 |
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Register entries of
the Braidwood Gaol, New South Wales. |
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Colonial
Secretary
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Includes Colonial Secretary Papers, 1788-1825;
Letters Relating to Land; and Main Series of Letters
Received, 1826-1982 |
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Court‚
Police‚ Prison
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Includes Bench of Magistrates, 1788-1820; Court
of Civil Jurisdiction 1799-1814; Divorce, 1873-1930;
Gaol Photographs, c.1870-1930; Police Service
Registers 1852-1913; Quarter Sessions cases,
1824-37; and Register of Criminal Depositions
Received, 1849-1921. |
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Deceased
Estates, 1880-1923 |
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Education
& Child Welfare
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Includes Mittagong Farm Home for Boys,
1907-1921; Orphan schools, 1817-1833; Randwick
Asylum for Destitute Children, 1852-1915; and
Schools and related records, 1876-1979. |
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Gaol
Photographs, 1870-1930 |
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Includes
the following prisons: Albury (1876-1929); Armidale (1894-1915);
Bathurst (1874-1930); Berrima (1883-1888); Biloela (1885-1906);
Broken Hill (1904-1929); Deniliquin (1895-1929 - latest addition);
Dubbo (1889-1920); and Darlinghurst (1869-1914) |
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Gold
Mining Companies and Investors |
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Index
of the names and residences of the initial
shareholders and the number of shares held by
each. |
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Government
Contracts and Contractors |
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49,164
entries on successful applicants for contracts
awarded by the New South Wales Government over the
period 1832 to 1900. |
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Hotel
and Liquor Licensees |
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Index
of over 52,000 persons who were licensed in the
New South Wales liquor industry from 1856 to 1900. |
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Index
of Irish Wills, 1484-1858 |
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Insolvency
Index, 1842-1887 |
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Inventions
and Inventors |
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Database
consists of over 20,000 entries covering persons
and companies that registered inventions in NSW
from 1855 to 1884. |
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Land
Records |
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Includes Colonial Secretary's Letters Relating to
Land; Closer Settlement and Returned Soldier's
Transfer files, 1907-1936, 1951; Surveyor General's
Maps and Plans, 1792-1886; Surveyors' Field Books,
1794-1860; and Surveyors' Letters, 1822-1855. |
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Local
Government Petitioners Database |
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Local
Government Petitions for or against the formation
of Local Government Municipalities; records
over 47,000 persons who signed one of the 315
petitions or counter petitions during the period
1858 to 1883 |
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Mail
Delivery Contractors Database |
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12,000
contracts awarded by the New South Wales
Government to persons to provide specific mail
services over the period 1835 to 1901. |
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NSW
Surveyors' Field Books, 1794-1860 |
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NSW
Surveyors' Letters, 1822-55 |
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Railway
Employees |
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Includes Railway Employees - Nominal Roll of the
First Railway Section (AIF), 1917-1920; Railway
Supply Detachment; NSW Government Railways and
Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 |
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Randwick
Asylum for Destitute Children, 1852-1915 |
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Registers
of Firms, 1903-22 |
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Sands
Directories: Sydney & NSW |
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Collection
of the Sand’s directories for Sydney and New
South Wales, Australia from 1861-1933. Directories
were NOT issued in 1862, 1872, 1874, 1878, or
1881. |
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South
Australian Teachers, 1851-1962 |
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Teachers in South
Australian schools; |
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Sydney Streets & Electoral Rolls 1903-1984 |
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Miscellaneous
databases that pertain to International genealogy and social history.
Shipping
Lists (including Immigration
& Naturalisation)
vary in
regards to the amount of information available. It often
pays to cross reference different databases. The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to
those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through
one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated
to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries.
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Assisted
immigrants, 1828-1842 (requires free
account
registration) |
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Assisted
immigrants arriving Moreton Bay-Brisbane, 1848-59
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Assisted
immigrants arriving Port Phillip, 1839-51 |
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Assisted
immigrants arriving Sydney, 1844-59 (includes Newcastle) |
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Assisted
immigrants arriving Sydney, 1860-79 |
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Assisted
immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1880-96 |
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Australian Convict Transportation Registers:
First Fleet, 1787-1788 |
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Australian Convict Transportation Registers:
Second Fleet, 1789-1790
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Australian Convict Transportation Registers:
Third Fleet, 1791 |
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Australian Convict Transportation
Registers: Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868
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Australian
National Historic Shipwreck Database |
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Australia
Passenger Indexes, NSW 1810-1857 |
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Convicts
and Convict Ships NSW, Port Jackson, 1787-1800 |
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Convicts
and Convict Ships NSW, Norfolk Island & Tasmania, 1801-1849 |
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Convicts
and Convict Ships NSW, Norfolk Island, Sydney & Hobart,
1840-1847 |
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Emigrants
from Great Britain & Ireland to Australia, 1825-1832 |
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Emigrants
from Scotland to Australia, 1852-1857 |
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Emigrant
Shipping: Surnames List for passengers into Australia |
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Emigrant
Shipping: Surnames List for passengers into New Zealand |
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Famine
Orphans from County Cork to Australia
(female only) |
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Index
to Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria from British, Foreign and New Zealand
Ports 1852-1923 |
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Index
to Registers of Assisted British Immigrants to Victoria, 1839-1871 |
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Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters |
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Miscellaneous
Immigrants, 1828-43 |
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Naturalisations
NSW, 1834-1903 |
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Naturalisations
NSW (Chinese), 1857-1887 |
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Naturalisations
SA, 1831-1891 |
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Naturalisations
TAS, 1835-1905 |
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Naturalisations
VIC (Croatians), 1855 |
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Outward
Passengers from Victoria to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports,
1852-1876
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Passenger
List and Correspondence Duchess of Northumberland, 1835 |
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Passenger
List and Correspondence Sarah, 1835 |
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Passenger
List and Correspondence Strathfieldsaye, 1834 |
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Passenger
List for the Andromache, Plymouth to Port Jackson, 1838-9 |
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Passenger
List for the Aurora, Calcutta to Adelaide, May 13 1852 |
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Passenger
List for the Isabella Watson, London to Port Phillip, 1852 (wrecked) |
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Passenger
List for the Northfleet, England to Tasmania, 1873 (wrecked) |
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Passenger
List for the Scottish Hero, Plymouth to Moreton Bay, 1883 |
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Passenger
List for the Slains Castle, London to Port Phillip, 1850-1851 |
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Passenger
List for the Truro, Liverpool to Moreton Bay, 1855 |
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Passenger
Lists: Miscellaneous England to Australia, 1845-1854 |
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Passenger
Lists: San Francisco to Sydney & Sydney to San Francisco
1849-1851 |
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Passenger
Lists: Sebim, Chebucto, Ellen Lewis & Breadalbane, Nova Scotia to AUS & NZ, 1852-1860 |
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Passenger
Lists: Spray, Gertrude, Highland Lass & Margaret, Nova Scotia to AUS & NZ, 1852-1860 |
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Passengers
from China, India, Australia to England, 1862 |
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Shipping
Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, 1844 (Mar 23 to May 25)
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Shipping
Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, 1844 (Jun
01 to Aug 10)
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Shipping
Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, 1844 (Aug
17 to Oct 05)
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Shipping
Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, 1844 (Oct
12 to Dec 28)
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Ships
Muster Index, 1816-1825 |
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TAS
Index to Departures, 1817 - 1867 |
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TAS
Index to Naturalisations 1835-1905 |
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Unassisted
Immigrants, 1842-55 |
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Vessels
Arrived in Sydney, 1837-1925 |
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