LIST 30 - TROISIEME DIZAINE - COMPOSITE INDEX
This fourth reference list, titled "Composite Index" is the only list in the
book which contains the full complement of the "Troisieme Dizaine", that
is all the births and all the childhood arrivals from 1811 to 1820; 6,885 entries
in all (3,485 males and 3,400 females). The only names not found on this list are those children who died at sea before reaching the colony (which can be found in List 21 - Childhood Arrivals).
The information recorded for each entry includes;
Christian name father's surname mother's maiden name year of birth year of death and where applicable;
all the musters that the person appears in year(s) of marriage shipping movements to and from the colony and within the colony other significant colonial eventsand where the year of death is unknown;
the last known record of the person (often this is the year of birth
of the last known child).
The list is in the child's name order, Surname then Christian name, with
the year of birth as the secondary sorting criterion, if two children should have the same name.
This list attempts to bring together all the other lists in this book to create one amalgamated and comprehensive reference point. But it is more than just an
index, it also documents the lives of the entire "Troisieme Dizaine".
If one were to take a line from this list such as:-
John CARPENTER SHAW 1817 1894 m1842and expand all the codes to give the sentence:-
John Carpenter was born in 1817, married in 1842 and died in 1894.then by looking at each of the lists referenced in this sentence quite a nice little biographical paragraph can be generated:-
John Carpenter was born about 1817, the illegitimate son of Thomas
Carpetner and Catherine Shaw. His father was a convict who arrived in the colony
in 1808 per Admiral Gambier. His mother was colonial born. In 1842 at the
age of 25 he married Esther Tolhurst at St Mary Magdalene Church South Creek
with whom he had 10 children. He died in 1894, aged 77 at Waterloo in Sydney. As an another example, taking the line:-
William Macquarie MOLLE 1813 A1814 R1817 NSW? m1836 R? m1845 c1859
and expanding the codes:-
William Macquarie Molle was born in 1813, arrived in the colony in
1814, left the colony for the first time in 1817. He then returned to the colony
some time before his marriage in 1836 before leaving the colony for the second time some time before his second marriage in 1845. His last known reference
is the birth of a child in 1859.then referencing the relevant lists generates:-
William Macqurie Molle was born at sea on the 24th December 1813 to George
Molle, an officer in the 46th Regiment and his wife Catherine. The family
arrived in the colony with the military transport ship 'Wyndham' on the
11th February 1814 and he was baptized at St Phillips Sydney three days later.
He left the colony with his father's regiment in 1817 only to return some time
before his marriage on the 25th February 1836 at St Johns Parramatta to the
colonial born Mary Ellen Blaxland, with home he had one child. After the death
of his wife in January 1843 he left the colony once more and in India in 1845
married Katherine Grant with whom he is thought to have two children, the second of whom was born in 1859, which is his last known record.
As an another example, taking the line:-
Sarah Elizabeth HALE THATCHER 1814 1903 A1818 M1822 m1827 C1828 m1846 and expanding the codes:-
Sarah Elizbeth Hale was born in 1814, arrived in the colony in 1818,
appeared in the 1822 muster and 1828 census of New South Wales, married twice
in 1827 and 1846 and died in 1903.
then referencing the relevant lists generates:-
Sarah Elizabeth Hale was born in 1814 to two married convict parents, Samuel Hale and Martha nee Thatcher. She arrived in the colony with her mother on
the 15th January 1818 onboard 'Friendship', her father having arrived in
1817 aboard 'Almorah'. She appeared in the 1822 Muster as living in Liverpool
and employed by Mrs Frazer as a nine year old. At the tender age of thirteen
she married the emancipated convict James Smith on the 10th September 1827
at St Lukes Liverpool with whom she had six children. In the 1828 Census she
was described as the wife of James Smith living at Cabramatta. After the death
of her first husband she obviously travelled to the Port Phillip District
where on the 6th Mary 1846 at St James Melbourne she married another
emancipated convict Henry Harren with whom she had five children. She died
on the 14th November 1903, aged 89 years, at Fitzroy in Melbourne.In contradistinction to the fulsome narratives above there are sadly many
entries such as:-
Elizabeth WILBERFORCE 1814which expands into:-
Elizabeth Wilberforce was born in 1814then referencing the relevant lists generates:-
Elizabeth Wilberforce was born on the 14th June 1814 to a white man
and a native woman, both not further identified. She was baptized at St Matthews
Windsor on the 10th July 1825. There is no further documentation of her activities in the colony.
or even:-
James SMITH 1812 1814
which expands into:-
James Smith was born in 1812 and died in 1814then referencing the relevant lists generates:-
James Smith died in 1814, aged 18 months and was buried at St Johns
Parramatta on the 4th March. There is no known record of his birth in 1812 and
no indication as to whom his parents were.
The information in this composite list also gives an indication of the fate
of the "Troisieme Dizaine".
The Fate of the "Troisieme Dizaine"
So what was the fate of the "Troisieme Dizaine" of the English colony in New
South Wales ? Like every other person who has ever lived their ultimate fate was death but as was discussed in List 23 only about one third have a known death date.
Nearly a quarter (24%) have no other known colonial record apart from either
the fact of their birth or their arrival in the colony. This represents
1,655 individuals (48 of these do not even have a year of birth). One possibility
is that they died as infants or older and their deaths were not recorded
by the colonial authorities or early ministers of the church, but given that
their very existence is known because their parents had them baptised it would appear very unlikely that those same parents would not give their children
a Christian burial. Another possibility is that they left the colony with
no record being made of the fact. Whilst this is undoubtedly true in many cases,
especially amongst the young men who may have been induced to go to sea on
various visiting sailing ships, it would not explain the hundreds of cases
left unresolved.
A further 209 (3%) left the colony and were never heard of again.
What of the remaining third of people?
The table below lists 1,875 cases (27%) whose last colonial documentation
was one of the colonial musters or the 1828 census.
Table 30.1. - Fate of the "Troisieme Dizaine"Event Number %
---------------------------Death 2,512 36.6
Departure 210 3.0
1818 Muster 112 1.6
1819 Muster 60 0.9
1822 Muster 372 5.4
1828 Census 1,289 18.7
Added to these are 609 cases (8.8%) of a marriage or the birth of a child as
the last recorded colonial event. These range from the birth of Barbara Styles'
child in 1816 and the marriage of Susannah Wise in 1819 to the birth of
Mary Ann Summerell's (Hyland) last child in 1888.
Table 30.2. - Marriage & Childbirth RecordsDate Range Number
---------------------1810-1819 2
1820-1829 34
1830-1839 227
1840-1849 177
1850-1859 98
1860-1869 32
1870-1879 3
1880-1889 1
Added to the above were 34 cases were a marriage is known to have taken place
but the date is unknown at this time.
Then there are 15 instances of shipping movements as the last known event.
There were fourteen cases of sailing to Van Diemens Land and Thomas Skottowe made a return journey of unknown date to New South Wales and all were not heard
of again.
The abbreviations used in this list are explained below:
A - Arrival in Colony
C - 1828 Census c - child born D - Death d - defacto M - Muster m - marriage R - Return to England ? - date unknown HT - Hobart Town NI - Norfolk Island PD - Port Dalrymple PJ - Port Jackson NSW - New South WalesVDL - Van Diemens Land
PPD - Port Phillip District
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