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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