LIST 1 - BIRTHS - FATHERS NAME ORDER

 
 
This list records 8,502 births for the decade 1821 to 1830. Unlike the 
previous three volumes in this series they refer to New South Wales only 
as Van Diemens Land separated from the mother colony in 1824.
 
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 a complimentary piece of information derived from personal 
research. In some instances the date of death is unknown but the year of 
departure is recorded, becoming 'dead' to the colony as it were.
 
The data was collected from church registers, both the "Pioneer Register 
Project" and the "Convict Families That Made Australia Project", the 1822 Muster 
and the 1828 Census, as listed in Table 1.1 below.
 
The number of baptisms identified for the decade is 7,235 but 151 of these were 
duplicates and 561 refer to children born before 1821 leaving a total of 6,523 
baptisms. To this number must be added the 694 children baptised after 1830. 
From this number must be subtracted the 62 baptisms referring to children born 
before arrival in the colony. A further 1,007 births were collected from the 
"Pioneer Register Project" and 88 from the "Convict Families That Made 
Australia Project". The deaths of 213 children could not be linked to any 
know family with any certainty, whilst 8 children in the 1822 Muster and 141 
children in the 1828 Census likewise have not been able to be linked to any 
known family, quite a few of these were orphans, orphans in life and orphans 
in history.
 
Thus  the total number of births identified for the decade is 8,385 of whom 
83% are known to have been baptized.
 
With regard to the fathers, the identities of 86% have been found. The 
95 (1%) children whose fathers are unknown are not recorded  on this list. 
There were 47% convicts or former convicts, 11% were soldiers or former 
soldiers, 17% came free and 12% were colonial born.
 
With regard to the children 21% were illegitimate.
 
There are 148 duplicate and 3 triplicate entries on the list. These have 
been preserved on the list in order to be able to locate the relevant baptism 
on the duplicated church register.
 
 Table 1.1. - Original Sources
 
 SMS 2096 25%
 SPS 1587 19%
 PR 1007 12%
 SJP 958 11%
 SJS 506 6%
 SMW 471 6%
  SPR 272 3%
 CCN 254 3%
 SLL 228 3%
 SPC 228 3%
 B-D 213 3%
 CCC 207 2%
  SKS 186 2% 
 M-C 149 2%
 HTK 119 1% 
 SJW 114 1%
 SPCO 111 1%
 STSR 105  1%
 W-M 95 1%
 CFA 88 1%
 SPEM 66 below 1%
 SJPT 57 below 1%
 STPM 55 below 1%
 EKPH 46 below 1%
 ASSF 45 below 1%
 SAKP 43 below 1%
 Other 42 below 1%
 SAS 28 below 1%
 HEB 11 below 1%
  
 
The abbreviations used in this volume are explained below.
 
 ASSF : All Saints Sutton Forrest 
 BAPT : Baptist St Andrews Sydney
 CCC : Christ Church Castlereagh 
 CCN  : Christ Church Newcastle 
 EKPH : Ebenezer Kirk Portland Head 
 HEBR : Hebrew Records
 HTK : Holy Trinity Kelso 
 IRAE : Israelite Penrith
 SAKP : St Annes Kissing Point 
 SAS : Presbyterian St Andrews Sydney
 SDH : St Davids Hobart
 SJB : St Johns Morton Bay
 SJL : St Johns Launceston
 SJM :  St James Melbourne
 SJP : St Johns Parramatta 
 SJPT : St James Pitt Town 
 SJS : St James Sydney 
 SJW : St Johns Wilberforce 
  SKS : Scots Kirk Sydney
 SKW : Scots Kirk Wilberforce
 SLL : St Lukes Liverpool 
 SMS : Catholic St Marys Sydney 
 SMW : St Matthews Windsor  
 SMWM : St Marys West Maitland
 SPC : St Peters Campbelltown 
 SPCO : St Pauls Cobbitty 
 SPEM : St Peters East Maitland
 SPR : St Peters Richmond 
 SPS : St Phillips Sydney 
 SSG : St Saviours Goulburn
 STPM : St Thomas Port Macquarie 
 STSR : St Thomas Sackville Reach 
 W-M  : Wesleyan Methodist Records
 
 ACCo : Australian Agricultural Company Gloucester 
 B-D : births from deaths
 C-28 : entry from 1828 Census of New South Wales
 C-H : Castle Hill
  CFA- : Convict Families of Australia Series
 I-C : Illawarra Camden
 L-H : Lower Hawkesbury
 M-22 : entry from 1822 Muster of New South Wales
 MB-B : Moreton Bay Baptisms
  MPFA : Mowle's Pioneer Families of Australia
 NI : Norfolk Island
 PR- : Pioneer Register Series
 
 A : Arrival Ship and Date
 AP : absolute pardon
 bas  : born at sea
 BC : born in the colony
 CF : came free
 CP : conditional pardon
 d : de facto
 EX : exiled to the colony
 FS : free by servitude
 GS : government servant (convict)
 m : married
 NC : native of the colony
 NE : never emigrated
 R : Return Ship and Date
 TL : ticket of leave
 VDL : Van Diemens Land
 
 * : duplicate
 ** : estimated year of birth
 % : not born in the colony
 # : born before 1821

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