LIST 21 - 1806 MUSTER - DEUXIEME DIZAINE - NEW SOUTH WALES

 
 
The first muster presented for New South Wales is the 1806 Muster, which 
took place in August of that year. Not surprisingly no colonial born members 
of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" have  been identified in this muster as the eldest 
would have been only six years old, however there are seven childhood arrivals 
mentioned (four boys and three girls). Why these particular seven were 
included in the muster and not any of the others is a mystery.
 
The information presented for each entry is: 
 
 family name
 Christian name
 year of birth 
 parents' names 
 parents' civil status at the time of the child's birth
  parents' marital status at the time of the child's birth 
 age
 civil status
 arrival as recorded in the muster
 how employed (males)
 with whom lives (females) 
  surname as it appears in the original muster 
 reference number linking the entry back to the original source document. 
 
The entries in the list are presented alphabetically; ordered firstly by 
the father's name, secondly by the child's Christian name. In the original 
muster, the names were grouped alphabetically on the first letter of 
the surname and them divided into males and females, but within each letter 
group the entries appear to be random.
 
The girls have been separated from the boys in order to make sense of the 
surnames under which their entries are found in the Muster because two of them 
were already in relationships with men and following the English custom, women 
took their husband's surname upon marriage. 
 
The age, year of birth and parental details are additional information 
researched for this work are not in the original muster.
 
Also included with the muster is the Reverend Samuel Marsden's "Female List 
of 1806". This list is basically a copy of the female entries in the 1806 
Muster, but he divided the women in relationships into legally married women 
and "concubines". Even more he records if the marriage took place in New South 
Wales or England, and how many children the women had, divided into males and 
females, legitimate and "natural".
 
The parents of Patrick McGrath have not been identified at this time nor has 
the mother of Thomas Boulton.
 
Marsden has mistakenly recorded Elizabeth Bartlett and Mary Brown as married 
in England when in fact both were in New South Wales. Neither of these two 
married women had children at the time of the 1806 Muster.
 
The "Civil Status" column was mainly used for distinguishing current and 
time expired convicts in the original muster. All the childhood arrivals had 
"CF" for came free in this field.
 
James & William Cox, even though only 16 & 17 years old respectively 
already owned and were sharing a 300 acre at the Hawkesbury.

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