LIST 22 - 1811 MUSTER - DEUXIEME DIZAINE - NEW SOUTH WALES & VAN DIEMENS LAND

 
 
The second muster presented for New South Wales is the 1811 Muster, which 
took place in February of that year. No colonial born members of the "Deuxieme 
Dizaine" have been identified in this muster as the eldest would only have 
been eleven years old, however there are 18 childhood arrivals mentioned (8 
males and 10 females). Again the question has to be asked, why these 
particular 18 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
 settlement of residence 
 civil status
 ship of arrival
 name of spouse for 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 by the father's 
surname, exactly the same as in the original Muster, which by the way is the 
only one among the various musters to list the entries in perfect alphabetical 
order, making it one of the easiest musters to use. 
 
The girls have been separated from the boys and the names of their spouses 
included in order to make sense of the surnames under which their entries are 
found in the Muster because most 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, parental details and name of spouse (for girls) are 
additional information researched for this work which are not in the original 
muster.
 
As mentioned the married girls used their husband's surname, except Sarah 
Crooks, why she women chose not to is unknown. Even Elizabeth Gurney whilst 
not legally married to her husband used his surname. The single girls and 
boys used their father's surnames.
 
The parents of Elizabeth Bayley are still unknown at this time. The father 
of Mary Wilby is unknown as are the mothers of Thomas Boulton and Elizabeth 
Gurney.
 
The dates of birth are unknown for; John & Sarah Crooks & Mary Wilby.
 
The "Civil Status" column in the original has just two responses, free and 
convict. All the entries in this list are free of course. 
The "Ship of Arrival" column was blank in more than a third of the entries 
(six cases); Samuel Blackman, Mary Brown, Sarah Frederick, Elizabeth Hall, 
William Piper & Elizabeth Tebbutt. All these omissions have been corrected in 
the list presented here.
 
Four of the seven entries from the 1806 Muster appear in this muster.

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