LIST 12 - BAPTISMS - TROISIEME DIZAINE - CHRIST CHURCH NEWCASTLE

 
 
The nineth church to be established in the colony was Christ Church at 
Newcastle. This nineth 'primary source' list contains the details of 32 baptisms 
recorded in Christ Church register for children born between 1811 and 1820, 16 
males and 16 females.
 
The information recorded and presented for each child is exactly as described 
for St Phillips in List 4.
 
These Christ Church Newcastle baptisms account for less than 1% of the 
"Troisieme Dizaine".
 
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.
 
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.
 
The Rev William Cowper made a visit to the Newcastle settlement in August 
1818 and performed 21 baptisms. The parish was not formally established until 
1821 when the Rev George Augustus Middleton, who had arrived in the colony 
the previous year, was appointed its first chaplain. The Rev Middleton 
performed his first baptism on the 6th September 1821 with a new numbering 
system.
 
Like all parishes in the colony, a new register was started in 1826 and the 
reference numbers were all recommenced.
 
There were three duplicate entries on the register during the period under 
study reducing the total of individual baptisms to 29 (14 males & 15 females). 
Thomas & William Morley and Patience Evans were all previously baptised at St 
Phillips.
 
Eleven baptisms took place after 1820 when older children came to baptism, the 
latest being Sarah Evans in 1826 at the age of twelve.
 
There were exactly the same number of boys and girls baptised. A little over 
a third of fathers were convicts or former convicts, and a half of the mothers 
were convicts or former convicts, reflecting the status of the settlement 
at Newcastle as a principally a place of secondary punishment. The big change 
for the "Troisieme Dizaine" was the increasing proportion of colonial born 
parents; 9% of mothers and 3% of fathers. Sadly the civil status of 20% of 
parents is unknown at this time. On a brighter note over half of the births 
were legitimate.
 
 Table 12.1 - Baptisms Christ Church Newcastle
 
 Total Males Females Convict Convict Colonial Colonial Legitimate 
 Father Mother Father Mother 
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 1818 21 12 9 9 13 0 2  8 
 >1820 11 4 16 3 3 1 1 10 
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 Totals 32 16 16 12 16 1  3 18 
Percentages 50.0% 50.0% 37.5% 50.0% 3.1% 9.4% 56.3% 
 
Entries on this list have the reference identifier "CCN" 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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