1810-20

Returns of convicts [4/1237.1] (Male) [4/1237.2] (Female), Reel 753

NRS 1260

Alphabetical returns of convicts who were in the colony when Governor Macquarie took charge on 1 January 1810 and of those who arrived up to September 1820. (Incomplete and probably the surviving records of several annual musters.)

1811

Population muster [4/1224; HO 10/5] Reels 1252; PRO 61 and COD 486 (SRC)

NRS 1260

Alphabetical arrangement subdivided into male convicts, female convicts, free men, free women. Taken between 5 February and 5 March 1811.

1814

Population muster [4/1225] Reel 1252 and COD 81

NRS 1260

Arrangement by district: Windsor, Richmond, Castlereagh, Parramatta, Liverpool, Sydney; then within district by free men, convict men, free women, convict women. Taken between 17 October and 16 November 1814.

1818-22

Land and stock musters for NSW

NRS 1268

The following information is given: names, acres of wheat, maize, barley, oats, peas and beans, potatoes, cleared land; total held; numbers of horses, horned cattle, sheep, hogs; bushels of wheat and maize.

From 1821 the following details of land are shown: whether held by grant, lease or purchase; whether proprietor or tenant is resident on the farm.

The returns are all arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname and then by district.

• Sydney, Parramatta, Liverpool, Windsor. Taken between 28 September and 11 November 1818. [4/1226] Reel 1256

• Sydney, Parramatta, Liverpool, Windsor. Taken between 27 September and 12 November 1819. [4/1228] Reel 1256

• Sydney, Parramatta, Liverpool, Windsor. Taken between 10 September and 26 October 1821. Appears to be a rough draft copy. [4/1229] Reel 1256

• Appears to be a final copy of 4/1229. (An incomplete copy of the 1821 Land and Stock Muster for the letters A-O, which has not been filmed is located at 4/1232.2.) [4/1230] Reel 1256

• Sydney, Parramatta, Liverpool, Molles Mains, Argyleshire, Bathurst, Newcastle, Windsor, Wilberforce. Taken between 2 and 13 September 1822. [4/1231] Reel 1252

• An incomplete copy of the 1822 Land and Stock Muster (Not filmed) [4/1232.3]

1819

Population muster [4/1277], Reel 1252, COD 510 (SRC)

NRS 1260

The arrangement is by free men, convict men, free women, convict women and then by the district and date on which it was taken. Taken in November 1819.

1820-25

Magistrates population books

and Land and stock books

NRS 1270

The population books usually show the following information: year of birth; class (free, free by servitude, absolute pardon, conditional pardon or ticket of leave); ship, year of arrival; master of ship; sentence; children (male or female); and remarks (for men this usually refers to occupation or by whom employed; for women it gives husband's name or to whom assigned).

The land and stock books show: name; original grantee or purchaser; whether held by grant, lease or purchase; whether proprietor or tenant is resident on land; bushels of grain on hand — wheat, maize; acres of — wheat, maize, barley, oats, peas and beans, potatoes, garden and orchard, cleared ground and total; numbers of horses, horned cattle, sheep, hogs; brand; and remarks.

• Castlereagh & Evan Population book, 1820 [4/1221.1] Reel 1253

• Richmond Population book, 1820 [4/1221.2] Reel 1253

• Windsor Population book, 1820 [4/1232.1] Reel 1253

• Wilberforce Population book, 1820 [4/1249.1] Reel 1256

• Wilberforce Population book, 1822 [4/1221.3] Reel 1253

• Liverpool Population book, 1822 [4/1221.4] Reel 1253

• Sydney Population, Land & Stock, 1822 [4/1221.5] Reel 1253

• Liverpool Population, Land & Stock, 1822 [4/1221.6] Reel 1253

• Liverpool Population, Land & Stock, 1823 [4/1222.3] Reel 1253

• Liverpool Population Book, 1823 [4/1221.7] Reel 1253

• Molles Main Population, Land & Stock, 1823 [4/1222.4] Reel 1253

• Newcastle (Hunter River) Population Book, 1824 [4/1222.1] Reel 1253

• Melville and Bathurst Population Book, 1824 [4/1222.2] Reel 1253

• Bringelly Population & Stock, 1824 [4/1222.5] Reel 1254

• Cawdor Population & Stock, 1824 [4/1222.6] Reel 1254

• Liverpool Population & Stock, 1824 [4/1222.7] Reel 1254

• Windsor Population Book, 1824 [4/1223] Reel 1254

• Cawdor Population & Stock, 1825 [4/1222.8] Reel 1254

• Wellington Valley Population Book, 1825 [4/1222.9] Reel 1254

• Windsor Population & Stock, 1825 [4/1222.1] Reel 1254

• Appin & Illawarra Population & Stock, 1825 L-W [4/1249.2] Reel 1256

• Nominal List of all persons victualled by the Government as at 8 September 1821 (N.B. Indexed in the published Index to the Papers of the New South Wales Colonial Secretary, 1788-1825 - part of Series CGS 938) [4/5781] pp.55-122, Reel 6016; and COD 477 (SRC)

1822-24

District Constables' notebooks

NRS 1263

By a proclamation of 15 August 1822 Governor Brisbane ordered that the muster returns made by the magistrates were to be checked by the district constables. Immediately before the muster was taken, each Constable had to visit every house and farm in his district, and take a note of the inhabitants, and other information which was required for the muster. This was to provide a check for the actual muster.

The arrangement, in the case of the Sydney books, is by street and by house as the constable walked through his district, and the other books appear to be in geographical order.

With the exception of that for Parramatta 1824 (see details below), the Notebooks give the names, ages of children, came free or born in the Colony, AP, CP or To, ship, master, sentence and employer.

• Parramatta 1822 (Book 3) (labelled as "Balkham Hill") [4/1220.1] Reel 1254

• Sydney 1822 which includes the George Street Male Orphan Institution (Book 5) and Vicinity of Sydney (Book 8 a pencil annotation states that it is for Lane Cove, Kissing Point and North Shore) [4/1219] Reel 1254

• Sydney 1822 (Books 1, 4) and 1823 (Book 2) [4/1218] Reel 1254

• Parramatta 1824 (Book 5) O-S only. The volume is alphabetically arranged by the first initial of the surname and gives names, year of birth, classes, vessels, year of arrival, sentence and employment. [4/1220.2] Reel 1254

c.1824

Trade list, watermark 1824 [4/1249.5] Reel 1256

NRS 1267

This is a statistical return of the muster of people following various trades in all the districts.

Arrangement is alphabetical by district and then alphabetical by occupation.

N.B. Individuals are not named.

1826

List of convicts, free men and officials [4/1249.3] Reel 1256

NRS 1266

There are two alphabetical listings giving:

1) convicts' details as to ship, date of arrival as well as their employment. Plus a list of free men, mainly officials.

2) convicts' details as to ship, date of arrival.

1828

1828 Census: Alphabetical return

NRS 1272

• ABC (A-Cooklin) [SZ978] Reel 2553

• CDEF, GHJKL (Collinson-Len) [SZ979-80] Reel 2554

• LMNO, PQRST (Lentz-Tigl) [SZ981-82] Reel 2555

• TUVWY (Til-Z) [SZ983] Reel 2556

Alphabetical listing (taken in November 1828)

1828

1828 CensusHouseholders returns

NRS 1273

• Govt. Establishments [4/1238.1] Reel 2551

• Concord [4/1238.2] Reel 2551

• Baulkham Hills [4/1238.2] Reel 2551

• Seven Hills [4/1238.2] Reel 2551

• Castle Hill [4/1238.2] Reel 2551

• Prospect [4/1238.2] Reel 2551

• Field of Mars [4/1239.1] Reel 2552

• Botany Bay [4/1239.1] Reel 2552

• Holdsworthy [4/1239.1] Reel 2552

• Cabramatta [4/1239.1] Reel 2552

• Liverpool [4/1239.1] Reel 2552

• Sydney (1 only) [4/1239.1] Reel 2552

• Cooke [4/1239.1] Reel 2552

• Evan [4/1239.2] Reel 2552

• Melville [4/1240] Reel 2506

• Bathurst [4/1240] Reel 2506

• Wellington Valley [4/1240] Reel 2506

• Parramatta [4/1241] Reel 2507

1841

1841 Census: Abstract of returns

NRS 1282

• Berrima-Goulburn [X946] Reel 2222

• Hartley-Norfolk Island [X947] Reel 2222

• Parramatta-Paterson [X948] Reel 2222

• Patrick Plains-Port Phillip [X949] Reel 2222

• Queanbeyan-Sydney [X950] Reel 2223

• Wellington-Yass [X951] Reel 2223

1841

1841 Census: Householders' returns and affidavit forms

NRS 1281

• Illawarra [4/1243] Reel 2508

• Port Phillip [4/1244] Reel 2509

1891

1891 Census: Collectors' Books [2/8401-28] Reel 2510-42

NRS 683

See Information Leaflet No. 1 for a full listing, which is available in our reading rooms. Search online index 1891 Cenus: Collectors' books

1901

1901 Census: Collectors' Books [2/8430-76] Fiche 1007-1211

NRS 685

See Short Guide 7 for a full listing.