Short Guide 12 - Copies of muster and census records from PRO London
Copies of records from the Public Record Office London
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
NRS 1261, 1811 Population muster [HO10/42]
PRO Reel 77
Alphabetical return of settlers who had been convicts at Norfolk Island on 6 August 1811.
NRS 1260, 1811 Population muster
[4/1224] Reel 1252 [HO 10/5] PRO Reel 61 and COD486 (SRC)
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 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
