LIST 1 - BIRTHS - FATHERS SURNAME ORDER
There were 6,081 births recorded during this decade which is almost
double the number for the previous decade.
The information recorded for each child includes:
date of birth
date of baptism
Christian name
father's Christian name
father's family name
father's year of arrival in the colony
father's ship of arrival in the colony
father's status upon arrival in the colony
mother's Christian name
mother's maiden name
mother's year of arrival in the colony
mother's ship of arrival in the colony
mother's status upon arrival in the colony
parent's civil status at the time of the child's birth
parent's marital status at the time of the child's birth
parent's year & country/church of marriage where
applicable
date of death
reference identifier
The births are listed primarily in alphabetical order on the name of
the father and then secondly in chronological order on the date
of birth for family groups.
The date of death is an complimentary piece of information derived
from my earlier publication "Born in the English Colony of New South
Wales" further details of which can be found in that publication. In
some instances the date of death is unknown but the year of departure
is recorded, becoming 'dead' to the colony as it were.
With regard to the fathers, the identities of 73% have been found.
The 98 children whose fathers are unknown are not recorded on this
list. There were 3,009 convicts or former convicts (49%), 647 were
soldiers or former soldiers (11%) and 982 came free (16%). Finally
there were 287 colonial born fathers (5%).
With regard to the children 50.6% were male and 49.4% were female,
59.1% were legitimate, 26.5% were illegitimate.
There are 160 duplicate and 8 triplicate entries on the list. These
have been preserved in order to be able to locate the relevant
baptism on duplicated church register.
Almost two thirds (64%) of these births were found in the various
church baptismal registers in existence at the time. In just under
a fifth (18%) the information is derived from Norfolk Island
records and from the Pioneer Register Project. The remainder
come from the early colonial Musters and the 1828 Census of New
South Wales, from burial records whose parents were not able to be
identified, and from records for Van Diemen's Land.
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