LIST 5 - BAPTISMS - OTHER CHURCHES

 
 
There were only two churches in the colony during the first 'decade'; St Phillips 
Sydney & St Johns Parramatta, and their baptisms are listed separately. But because some 
children were baptised some time after birth, in some cases several decades later, these 
baptisms are collected into a separate list, ordered by date of founding of the respective 
parishes and then chronologically within each parish.
 
There were 83 other baptisms recorded for children born during this 'decade'. 
 
The information recorded for each child includes: 
 date of baptism 
 date of birth
 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 
 reference number
 
Quite a few children were baptised on Norfolk Island when the Reverend Henry Fulton 
was posted to the island between 1801 and 1806, there not being a resident chaplain before 
that time. The other churches presented in this list include: St Davids Hobart (founded 
1803), St Matthews Windsor (founded 1810), St Peters Richmond (founded 1811), St Johns 
Launceston (founded 1811) and St Marys Sydney (founded 1820).
 
Readers will notice that for St Marys Sydney, the colony's first Catholic parish, there 
are in fact eight entries listed however all but two of these were rebaptisms from earlier 
Protestant parishes.
 
  Table 5.1
 
 Church Baptisms
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 NI : 66
 SDH : 12
 SMS : 2
 SMW : 1
 SPR : 1
  SJL : 1
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original parish register.
 
Entries on this list have the reference identifier "NI", "SDH", "SJL", "SMS", "SMW" or 
"SPR" on List 1. To locate an entry on this  list; firstly an alphabetical search on the 
name would be made on List 1 from which the date and church of baptism would be retrieved, 
secondly using the appropriate date, the baptism would be located on this list.

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