LIST 11 - BAPTISMS - TROISIEME DIZAINE - CHRIST CHURCH CASTLEREAGH

 
 
The eighth church to be established in the colony was Christ Church at 
Castlereagh. This eighth 'primary source' list contains the details of 85 
baptisms recorded in Christ Church register for children born between 1811 and 
1820, 41 males and 44 females.
 
The information recorded and presented for each child is exactly as described 
for St Phillips in List 4.
 
These Christ Church Castlereagh baptisms account for 1% of the "Troisieme 
Dizaine".
 
There were two duplicate entries on the register during the period under study 
reducing the total of individual baptisms to 83 (40 males & 43 females). Lucy 
Clarke was previously baptised in 1819 and John Wood in 1820. Why these two were 
rebaptised in the same church is a mystery.
 
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 relevant entry in the 
original source document.
 
Christ Church was separated from St Matthews in 1814 with the Rev. Henry 
Fulton being appointed as the first incumbent whilst at the same time being 
responsible for St Peters Richmond, he was obviously a busy man. The first 
baptism was performed on the 3rd of July of that year.
 
It should be noted that this list contains considerably more information 
than will be found in the original church register, being the result of decades 
of research, principally associated with the Pioneer Register Project.
 
Twelve baptisms took place after 1820 when older children came to baptism, the 
latest being Lucy Clarke in 1831 at the age of twenty.
 
George Hobby was actually baptised under his stepfathers name of John Tobin 
Ryan.
 
There were more girls baptized than boys. More than two thirds of fathers were 
convicts or former convicts, and just under a third of the mothers were convicts 
or former convicts. The big change for the "Troisieme Dizaine" was the 
increasing proportion of colonial born parents; 47% of mothers and 9% of fathers. 
In this parish the civil status of only 3% of parents is unknown at  this time. 
Over four fifths of the births were legitimate.
 
 Table 11.1 - Baptisms Christ Church Castlereagh
 
 Total Males Females Convict Convict  Colonial Colonial Legitimate 
 Father Mother Father Mother 
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 1814 6 3 3 5 1  0 4 5 
 1815 9 8 1 9 3 0 4 8 
 1816 7 5 2 4 2 1 3 6 
 1817 10 7 3 9  3 1 6 7 
 1818 14 7 7 9 5 2 6 13 
 1819 13 2 11 8 4 2 7 10 
 1820 14 4 10  10 3 2 6 11 
 >1820 12 5 7 7 5 0 4 9 
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 Totals 85 41 44 61 26 8 40 69 
Percentages 48.2% 51.8% 71.8% 30.6% 9.4% 47.1% 81.2% 
 
Entries on this list have the reference identifier "CCC" 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 date of baptism would be retrieved, secondly using 
the appropriate date, the baptism would be located on this list and finally 
an alphabetical search on the name would be made on the baptismal date if 
there should be more than one entry for that date. 

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