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Short Guide 12 - Muster and Census Records, 1788-1901
Top of Short Guide 12 - Muster and Census Records, 1788-1901 Copies of records from the Public Record Office London

DateDescriptionSeries

1788

Victualling book [T1/668] PRO Reel 3551 and COD 88 (SRC)

List of persons victualled in New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 26 Feb - 17 Nov 1788

1806

Population muster [HO 10/37] PRO Reel 72

Alphabetical listing of free inhabitants and convicts including details of land and stock held.

1808-49

Alphabetical return of convicts in Van Diemen's Land [HO 10/41] PRO Reel 76-7

Showing name, ship, place and date of trial, sentence and position.

1810-21

Alphabetical returns of convicts [HO 10/1-15] PRO Reels 59-64

1811

Population muster [HO10/42] PRO Reel 77

NRS 1261

Alphabetical return of settlers who had been convicts at Norfolk Island on 6 August 1811.

1811

Population muster [4/1224] Reel 1252 [HO 10/5] PRO Reel 61 and COD486 (SRC)

NRS 1260

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

1821

Population muster [HO 10/18] PRO Reel 65

Alphabetical return of males and females (except military).

1822

Population muster [HO10/36] PRO Reel 72

Alphabetical list of inhabitants (except military)

1825

Population muster [HO10/19] PRO Reel 66

Alphabetical list of all inhabitants (except the military).

1837

General muster of male and female convicts, NSW and Norfolk Island on ?31 December 1837 [HO10/32 - HO10/35] PRO Reels 71-72

1828

1828 Census (Home Office Copy) [HO10/21-HO10/27] PRO Reels 67-9

1828

Convict Return [HO 10/28] PRO Reel 69

Alphabetical return of male and female prisoners in the Colony taken at the General Census in November 1828.

Convict Returns, 1823, 1825, 1830, 1832, 1833, 1835, 1841 [HO 10/44-51] PRO Reels 77-80

Alphabetical returns and musters of male and female convicts.

1846

Population Muster [HO10/38 - HO10/39] PRO Reels 72-74

Alphabetical register of all convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land from Great Britain, Ireland and the British Possessions on 31 October 1846. (Includes names of all who were convicts in January 1842 when a similar register was prepared.)

1849

As for previous muster to the end of 1849. [HO10/40] PRO Reel 74-76


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