LIST 9 - BAPTISMS - OTHER CHURCHES

 
 
Numerous children born between 1801 and 1810 were baptized after 1810 in 
churches other than those discussed in the previous lists. This "other 
churches" list identified 96 of them.
 
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
 
The list is presented firstly in alphabetical order by name of church, next 
in chronological order by date of baptism, then in chronological order by date 
of birth 
 
It should be noted that considerably more information is presented than 
will be found in the original church register, being the result of decades 
of research, principally associated with the Pioneer Register Project. Arrival 
data for the parents were rarely recorded in the original documents nor was 
their marital status.
 
Where the father's surname has a second name separated by a slash '/', the surname 
after the slash is how the name was spelt in the original document or if second 
name is substantially different it refers to an alias. Where the mother's surname 
has a second name separated by a slash, the surname after the slash is her 
married name at the time of the recording being made if she was married more 
than once. 
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original source 
document.
 
After 1810 there was a veritable blossoming of churches in the colony. St 
Matthews Windsor and St Johns Launceston have already been discussed. Apart 
from the remaining four churches from Macquarie's "five towns"; 
 Christ Church Castlereagh (1815) 
 St James Pitt Town (1825)
 St Johns Wilberforce (1826) 
 St Peters Richmond (1814) 
there were also; 
 Christ Church Newcastle (1818) 
 Holy Trinity Kelso (1826)
 St James Sydney (1824) 
 St Lukes Liverpool (1811) 
 St Peters Campbelltown (1821) 
 St Thomas Port Macquarie (1824) 
 St Thomas Sackville Reach (1821) 
all of the Anglican communion.
 
The first Presbyterian church was also founded, Scots Kirk Sydney (1826) as was 
the first Catholic church, St Marys Sydney (1820).
 
It will be noted that many of these baptisms were in fact duplicates. 
Mary Ann Rock was previously baptized at St Johns Parramatta, Edward Fletcher 
at St Phillips Sydney.
 
Twenty of the 38 baptisms at St Marys Sydney were rebaptisms of children 
originally baptized into the Anglican communion. Similarly Athelia Palmer 
was rebaptized into the Wesleyan-Methodist communion.
 
Anthony Cottrell was baptized at Sorell Van Diemens Land and James Pillenger 
at New Norfolk in Van Diemens Land and Eleanor Boswell at Clarence Town in 
Van Diemens Land at the age of thirty five being the oldest of these "late" 
baptisms.
 
Apart from these baptisms there may well have been others which hopefully may 
come to light under the stimulus of the interest created by this treatise.
 
 Table 9.1.
 
  Church Baptisms
 ----------------
 CCC : 8
 CCN : 3
 HTK : 1
 SJPT: 3
 SJS : 2
 SKS : 5
  SLL : 15 
 SMS : 38
 SPC : 1
 SPR : 12
 STPM: 1
 V-CE: 3
 V-CR: 3
 W-M : 1
 
Entries on this list have one of the reference identifiers; "CCC", "CCN", 
"HTK", "SJPT", "SJS", "SKS", "SLL", "SMS", "SPC", "SPR", "STPM", "W-M", "CE-V", 
"CR-V" 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 church and date of 
baptism would be retrieved, secondly using the appropriate church, the baptism 
would be located on this list.

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