LIST 1 - BIRTHS - TROISIEME DIZAINE - FATHERS NAME ORDER

 
 
This first reference list, titled "Births of the 'Troisieme Dizaine' - 
Fathers' Name Order" lists births for children born in the colony from 1811 until 
1820 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 just over half of the "Troisieme 
Dizaine" . Forty 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 152 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 two percent of cases.
 
 Table 1.1. - Date of Birth
 
 Birth Number Percentage
  ------------------------------------
 Year, Month, Day 3831 56%
 Year & Month 152 2%
 Year only 2758 40%
 Unknown 144 2%
 
A total  of 2,941 (43%) 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. 
 
By the time of the third decade all the Anglican churches on the mainland were 
recording the date of birth in their baptismal registers. In Van Diemens 
Land St Davids Hobart commenced to record birth dates in 1814 and St Johns 
Launceston in 1819. The two St Marys in Sydney and Hobart did not in 1820. Thus 
for these four churches the date of birth for 229 entries is an estimate derived 
from the date of baptism. 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. 
 
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.
 
The following sixteen were also baptized late in life but it is not known when:
 
 John Baker St Johns Wilberforce 
 Margaret Fitzpatrick St Matthews Windsor 
 Louisa Sly St Peters Cooks River 
 Francis Ezzy St Peters Richmond 
 Thomas Hornery St Peters Richmond 
 Jemima Richards St Peters Richmond 
 Joseph George White Scots Kirk Sydney 
 William Rose Scots Kirk Portland Head 
 Daniel Gardiner Scots Kirk Portland Head 
 Martha Blackman Scots Kirk Bathurst 
 Elizabeth Jane White Scots Kirk Bathurst 
 Elizabeth Bowden Wesley Chapel Sydney 
 John Forbes Wesley Chapel Sydney 
 Lydia Jane Mansfield Wesley Chapel Sydney 
 Henry Singleton Wesley Chapel Windsor 
 James Kelly Maitland Catholic 
 
The numbers of boys and girls on the list is almost exactly equal with just 85 
more boys.
 
  Table 1.2. - Sex
 
 Sex Number Percentage
 -----------------------------
 Male 3485 50.6%
 Female 3400 49.4%
 
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 "Troisieme Dizaine" are 
discussed fully.
 
Regrettably the Christian names of 62 of the children is unknown at this time 
although in nine cases we do know the sex - four sons and five daughters 
and in 44 cases we know the initials (sadly these were all children in 
orphanages). 
 
The Christian names of the fathers of 1,264 of the "Troisieme Dizaine" are 
unknown, regrettably this is more than two and a half times the number for 
the "Deuxieme Dizaine". A further nine cases only have an initial. In 177 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 1,055 of the "Troisieme Dizaine" are 
unknown. A further three cases only have an initial. In 1,032 cases neither 
the Christian nor the family name of the mother are known.
 
The surnames of 2,202 (33%) of the mothers are unknown, this relatively 
large figure includes the 793 (12%) married women who arrived in the colony 
using their husbands' surnames. In List 2 the children  of the "Troisieme 
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'. By the time of the third decade 
the percentage of illegitimate was down to about a quartre compared to a half 
in the previous two decades, the colony was 'civilizing'. In 992 cases the 
parents are unknown and as a consequence their marital status is unknown. These 
instances relate to entries derived from the various musters and burial 
registers.
 
 Table 1.3. - Marital Status of Parents
 
 Status Number Percentage
 -----------------------------
 Married 4,070 59.1%
 Defacto 1,823 26.5%
 unknown 992 14.4%
 
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
 CP - free by conditional 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, less than half of the fathers and 
less than a third 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 1,813 of the fathers and 1,698 of 
the mothers is regrettably unknown (mainly because the parent is 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 continue to make up an increasing proportion, the females 
more so than the males, as the colony aged. There were five 'native' women 
contributing to the colony's half-caste children.
 
Hugh Bryne, Arthur Devlin, Michael Dwyer & William Maun 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 1486 21.6% 1740 25.3%
 FS 1946 28.3% 862 12.5%
 GS 1260 18.3% 1396 20.3%
 AP  3 0.1% 12 0.2%
 CP 3 0.1% 0 0.0%
 EX 11 0.2% 0 0.0%
 PR 1 0.0% 0 0.0%
 BC 280  4.1% 1162 16.9%
 NE 82 1.2% 10 0.2%
 NC 0 0.0% 5 0.1%
 -- 1813 26.3% 1688 24.7%
 
The year and ship of arrival of course only applies to those children born 
overseas. There are 877 such arrivals. Childhood Arrivals will be discussed 
in List 21.
 
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 262 such departures. 
Departures will be discussed in List 24.
 
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 2,512 (36%) cases. Not as many of the "Troisieme 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 23.
 
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.
 
 CCC - refers to a Christ Church Castlereagh baptism
 CCN - refers to a Christ Church Newcastle baptism
 SDH - refers to a St Davids Hobart baptism
 SJL - refers to a St Johns Launceston baptism
 SJP - refers to a St Johns Parramatta baptism
 SLL - refers to a St Lukes Liverpool baptism
 SMH - refers to a St Marys Hobart baptism
 SMS - refers to a St Marys Sydney baptism
 SMW - refers to a St Matthews Windsor baptism
 SPR - refers to a St Peters Richmond baptism
 SPS - refers to a St Phillips Sydney 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:
 HTK - Holy Trinity Kelso
 SAKP - St Annes Kissing Point
 SAS - St Andrews Sydney
 SDPA - St Davids Port Arthur VDL
 SGS - St Georges Sorell VDL
 SJPT - St James Pitt Town
 SJS - St James Sydney
  SJW - St Johns Wilberforce
 SLR - St Lukes Richmond VDL
 SMK - St Michaels Kelso - Catholic
 SMNN - St Matthews New Norfolk VDL
 SMWR - St Matthews Windsor - Catholic
 SPC - St Peters Campbelltown
 SPCO - St Pauls Cobbitty
 STPM - St Thomas Port Macquarie
 STSR - St Thomas Sackville Reach
 
 Bapt - Baptist VDL
 Cla - Clarence VDL - Anglican
 GP - Green Ponds VDL - Anglican
 I-RC - Illawarra - Catholic
 M-RC - Maitland - Catholic
 Pet - Cooks River, Petersham - Anglican
 SKB - Scots Kirk Bathurst
 SKPH - Scots Kirk Portland Head
 SKS - Scots Kirk Sydney
 WMH - Wesleyan Methodist - Hobart
 WML - Wesleyan Methodist - Launceston
 WMS - Wesleyan Methodist - Sydney
 WMW - Wesleyan Methodist - Windsor
 Ship - refers to an overseas birth
 
 
 Table 1.5. - Source Lists
 
 List Numbers Percentage
 ----------------------------
 SPS 1579 22.9%
 SJP 586 8.5%
 SDH 677 9.8%
 SMW 450 6.5%
 SJL 147 2.1%
 SLL  124 1.8%
 SPR 134 1.9%
 CCC 85 1.2%
 CCN 32 0.5%
 SMS 119 1.7%
 SMH 70 1.0%
  NI 10 0.1%
 VDL 480 7.0% 
 PR-n 1191 17.3%
 B-D 172 2.5%
 M-C 305 4.4%
 OTH 84 1.2%
  Ship 877 12.7%
 
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 eighteen 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 6,708 names. It does NOT contain the births of 177 children 
whose fathers' surnames are unknown. These can be found in the Mother List. 

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