This index includes entries from the following series:

CGS 1281, Householders returns and affidavit forms, Illawarra [4/1243A-C], Reels 1417-1418 and 2508

These records are comprised of Form A - Householders Returns and Form B - Collectors' Affidavits.

Form A records county, parish, town or district; name of householder, employer of servants, or person in charge; place of residence and street if in a town. Then follows a series of questions relating to the proprietor of the house, the substance the house was built of, the people residing in the house and how many of them were free. On the other side of the form is a table headed "Numerical return showing the age, sex, religion, occupation, condition and trade and calling, of persons in the said House or Establishment".

Form B accompanies Form A. It is an affidavit form signed by the collector that the numbers taken are a true statement of the number and quality of the persons residing in the district. They showing running numbers covered by the returns with which they are filed. They are signed by the collector, the place and date are given and the signature of the Justice of the Peace or Police Magistrate for the area.

Port Phillip [4/1244A-C], Reels 1419 and 2509. 3 vols.

This form records on a single sheet the information noted on Forms A and B described above.

An index to these returns, compiled by M.J. Morgan, is available in State Records at [City] COD107.

CGS 1282, Abstracts of returns, Berrima-Port Phillip [X946-49], Reel 2222 and Queanbeyan-Yass [X950-51], Reel 2223.

These forms are designated 'C' and abstract the information furnished by the individual householders return on Form A.

The Form C records: number of return, name of establishment (usually head of household), number of each age group for males, and then for females (the age divisions are under two, two and under 7, 7 and under 14, 14 and under 21, 21 and under 45, 45 and under 60, 60 and upwards); married or single; civil condition: free (born in colony, arrived free, other free persons), bond (ticket of leave, in government employment, in private assignment); then religion divided into Church of England, Church of Scotland, Wesleyan Methodists, other Protestant dissenters, Roman Catholics, Jews, Mohammedans and Pagans; occupation divided into land proprietors, merchants, bankers, and professional men; shopkeepers and other retail dealers; mechanics and artificers; shepherds and others in the care of sheep; gardeners, stockmen and persons employed in agriculture; domestic servants; all other persons not included in the foregoing classes; totals for males, for females, and for both; houses - further divided into stone or brick, wood, total; finished or unfinished; inhabited or uninhabited. The columns are totalled at the bottom of each sheet.

As well as these Abstracts of returns, there are also a number of what are described as "condensed" abstracts of returns, filled in on Form C. These enumerate the running numbers covered by each sheet of abstracts eg. 1-20, 21-40 and give sums for each group as well as grand total.

Form C abstracts are arranged by district following the order in the Returns of the Colony for 1841. 'Condensed' Abstracts are filed with the district abstracts to which they pertain.

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