LIST 1 - BIRTHS - DEUXIEME DIZAINE - FATHERS NAME ORDER

 
 
This first reference list, titled "Births of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" - 
Fathers' Name Order" lists births for children born in the colony from 1801 until 
1810 as well as childhood arrivals for the same period of time.
 
The information presented on each child includes: 
 
 date of birth 
 date of baptism (if applicable)
 Christian name 
 surname of father 
 Christian name of father 
 surname of mother 
 Christian name of mother
 parents marital status
 parents civil status 
  year of arrival (if applicable) 
 ship of arrival (if applicable)
 year of departure (if applicable)
 ship of departure (if applicable)
 date of death
  reference identifier
 
The list is ordered firstly alphabetically on the name of the father, meaning 
both family name and Christian name, as distinct from just the surname, then 
secondly chronologically on the date of birth of the child. This has the effect 
of collecting the entries into family groups in birth order, mini family trees 
as it were.
 
The exact date of birth is known for half of the "Deuxieme Dizaine". Forty 
two percent only have a year of birth and in about a tenth of these the 
year is estimated from the date of baptism as will be explained below. 
Interestingly in 43 cases a month of birth is known but not the day and nearly 
all of these were calculated for infant burials from the age at death. 
Unfortunately the date of birth is totally unknown in six percent of cases.
 
 Table 1.1. - Date of Birth
 
 Birth Number Percentage
 ------------------------------------
  Year, Month, Day 1732 51%
 Year & Month 43 1%
 Year only 1433 42%
 Unknown 216 6%
 
A total of 1,650 (48%) of the children on the list were  not baptized, or 
at least not known to be baptized, particularly amongst the overseas born 
children, so consequently these entries have no baptismal date. 
 
The date of birth for 121 entries is an estimate derived from the date of baptism. 
In the period under study, many baptismal records did not record the date 
of birth but an assumption was made, which is not entirely unreasonable, that 
most if not all were baptized in the same year they were born. The only 
exceptions to this assumption are the baptisms which took place at St Johns 
Launceston in 1811 as will be explained in List 8. 
 
For those children who were not baptized, their birth years are often derived 
from other sources, such as ages in musters or at marriage or at time of 
death. Most of the children born on Norfolk Island were not baptized but 
their birth dates were fortunately recorded in the commissariat records for 
purposes of ration entitlement. 
 
Surprisingly many entries sourced from the Pioneer Register project have 
an exact date of birth without an accompanying baptismal record. Just 
how their descendants obtained this information is unclear, perhaps family 
documents recorded the details which were never recorded in more official 
sources.
 
Many of the childhood arrivals have an exact date of birth but no accompanying 
date of baptism because these quite often took place in England before voyaging 
to the colony and of course these records have not been consulted.
 
William Adams and John Edward Smith were both baptized at St Johns Parramatta 
in 1809 but for some reason the exact date was not recorded.
 
The following four were all baptized late in life but only the year is known:
 
 Mary Flood 1821 St Phillips Sydney
 Eliza Mitchell 1824 St Thomas Port Macquarie
 John Quinn 1827 Roman Catholic Van Diemens Land
 William Whalan 1823 St Phillips Sydney
 
The following eight were also baptized late in life but it is not known when:
 
 James Grono St Andrews Sydney
 John Grono St Andrews Sydney
 John Hobbs St Marys Sydney
 Joseph Hobbs St Marys Sydney
  George Jackson St Peters Richmond
 Thomas Jackson St Phillips Sydney
 Andrew Melville St James Pitt Town
 Robert Melville St James Pitt Town
 
There are 167 more boys than girls on the list which is the exact opposite to 
the situation with the 'First Generation'.
 
 Table 1.2. - Sex
 
 Sex Number Percentage
 -----------------------------
 Male 1801 52.4%
 Female 1634 47.6%
 
Being both an English and a Christian colony the names given to the children 
are of no real surprise, at least not to those of a similar English/Christian 
background. In List 3 the Christian names of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" are 
discussed fully.
 
Regrettably the Christian name of fifteen of the children is unknown at 
this time.
 
The Christian names of the fathers of 513 of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" are 
unknown, regretably this is more than two and a half times the number for the 
"First Generation". In 41 cases neither the Christian nor the family name of 
the father are known.
 
Throughout the book, children are listed under the surname of their father, 
where known. In some cases it is known that the child did not use their father's 
surname, for example many used their mother's surname, especially if the 
parents were not married, certainly if the father was unknown. Some even 
used their stepfather's surname. Where known these instances are pointed 
out in the relevant lists.
 
This being an English colony, there are no surnames beginning with the letters 
'X' nor 'Z'.
 
The Christian names of the mothers of 525 of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" are 
unknown. The surnames of 891 (26%) of the mothers are unknown, this relatively 
large figure includes the 299 married women who arrived in the colony using 
their husbands' surnames. In List 2 the children of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" can 
be found ordered under their mother's surnames.
 
The parents' marital status indicates whether, at the time of the child's birth, 
they were either married 'm' or defacto 'd'. It turns out that about half 
the "Deuxieme Dizaine" were illegitimate. The status is unknown in 454 cases 
unfortunately.
 
 Table 1.3. - Marital Status of Parents
 
 Status Number Percentage
 -----------------------------
 Married 1,395 40.7%
 Defacto 1,575 46.0%
  unknown 454 13.7%
 
The parents' civil status at the time of the child's birth indicates whether 
they were either:
 
 CF - came free 
 GS - government servant (convict) 
 FS - free by servitude
 AP - free by absolute pardon
 EX - exile
 PR - prisoner of war
 BC - born in the colony
 NE - never emigrated
 NC - native of the colony
  -- - unknown
 
As can bee seen from the table below, about half of the fathers and half of 
the mothers had arrived in the colony as convicts. Notice how already these 
proportions have dropped considerably compared to the 'First Generation'. The 
arrival status of 694 of the fathers and 688 of the mothers is regettably 
unknown.
 
These figures if anything over represent the free arrivals for even though 
the male convicts were numerically predominant, the free men, soldiers and 
officials, obviously had greater access to the much smaller pool of available 
women.
 
The colonial born make their first appearance as parents, the females more 
so than the males. Also making a first appearance are three 'native' women 
giving rise to the first recorded half-caste children.
 
Arthur Devlin, Michael Dwyer & Henry Fulton were all exiles sent to the colony 
for their part in the Irish rebellion of 1798 and theoretically were not 
convicts.
 
Antoine L'Andre was a French prisoner of war who  came to the colony to help 
establish the cultivation of grape vines.
 
 Table 1.4. - Civil Status of Parents
 
 Father Mother
 Status Number Percentage Number Percentage
 -------------------------------------------------------
 CF 932 27.2% 943 27.5%
 GS 635 18.5% 956 27.9%
 FS 1112 32.5% 695 20.3%
 AP 3  0.1% 7 0.2%
 EX 7 0.2% 0 0.0%
 PR 3 0.1% 0 0.0%
 BC 5 0.1% 119 3.5%
 NE 33 1.0%  13 0.4%
 NC 0 0.0% 3 0.1%
 -- 694 20.3% 688 20.1%
 
The year and ship of arrival of course only applies to those children born 
overseas. There are 345 such arrivals. Childhood Arrivals will be discussed 
in List 15.
 
The year and ship of departure only applies to those children who departed the 
colony for whatever reason. It should be noted that this information applies 
only to the first departure from the colony for those children who may have 
made more than one voyage to and from the colony. There are 121 such departures. 
Departures will be discussed in List 18.
 
As any genealogist would testify, obtaining a date of death is often a most 
difficult task and so it has proved in this work. The date of death is known 
in 1,775 (52%) cases. Not as many of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" have a death 
date as might have been desired but this is one area of continuing research 
which will hopefully bear fruit. Deaths will be discussed in List 17.
 
The reference identifier gives the source of the information for each child's 
birth. The identifier can be any one of twenty one codes as listed below. Table 
1.5. gives the percentages derived from each category.
 
 SPS - refers to a St Phillips Sydney baptism
 SJP - refers to a St Johns Parramatta baptism
 SDH - refers to a St Davids Hobart baptism
 SMW - refers to a St Matthews Windsor baptism
 SJL - refers to a St Johns Launceston baptism
 NI - refers to a Norfolk Island birth
 VDL - refers to a Van Diemens Land birth
 PR-n - refers to a birth derived from the Pioneer Register
 - the number indicates which second edition volume
 B-D - refers to a birth derived from a death
 M-C - refers to a birth derived from a muster or census
 OTH - refers to a baptism at some other church
 CCC - Christ Church Castlereagh
 CCN - Christ Church Newcastle
 SAS - St Andrews Sydney
 SJPT - St James Pitt Town
  SJS - St James Sydney
 SLL - St Lukes Liverpool
 SMS - St Marys Sydney
 SPC - St Peters Campbelltown
 SPR - St Peters Richmond
 STPM - St Thomas Port Macquarie
 Ship - refers to an overseas birth
 
 
 Table 1.5. - Source Lists
 
 List Numbers Percentage
 ----------------------------
  SPS 831 24.3%
 SJP 451 13.2%
 SDH 108 3.2%
 SMW 130 3.8%
 SJL 43 1.3%
 NI 271 7.9%
 VDL 57 1.7% 
 PR-n 726 21.2%
 B-D 123 3.6%
 M-C 283 8.3%
 OTH 58 1.7%
 Ship 343  10.0%
 
It is possible for a child to be in two source lists, for example; a 
child born overseas but who was baptized upon arrival in the colony would 
be found in both a baptismal list and a shipping list or a child born 
on Norfolk Island but then subsequently baptized at Port Jackson would be 
on both lists.
 
The twelve subsidiary birth lists, apart from acting as source documents, 
are also designed to enable the reader to learn more about the parents of each 
particular child, to wit, their year & ship of arrival and the capacity in 
which they arrived in the colony. 
 
The information contained on this 'reference' list is used to point to the 
'information' lists. For instance where a date of death is recorded, that death 
date connects to the list on deaths and further details of the death, such as 
the place of death and age at death. Similarly where a year & ship of 
arrival/departure are recorded, that connects to the lists of 
arrivals/departures. 
 
This list contains 3,394 names. It does NOT contain the births of 41 children 
whose fathers' surnames are unknown. 

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