LIST 23 - 1814 MUSTER - DEUXIEME DIZAINE - NEW SOUTH WALES

 
 
The third muster presented for New South Wales is the 1814 Muster, which 
took place in October of that year. There are 19 members of the "Deuxieme 
Dizaine" identified from this muster (10 colonial born, 9 childhood arrivals, 
9 males and 10 females). 
 
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
 residential area
 civil status
 on or off stores 
 ship of arrival
 occupation(males)
 with whom lives(females)
 number of children(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 
they were grouped into four areas of residence (Windsor, Parramatta, 
Liverpool, Sydney), with the males preceding the females in each group, 
then free people before convicts but beyond that no discernible pattern 
of placement is evident.
 
The age at time of the muster, year of birth, parental details and some 
marriage details (for females) are additional information, which are not 
in the original muster, researched for this work, principally from the Pioneer 
Register.
 
By 1814 even the oldest of the of colonial born "Deuxieme Dizaine" would 
have been on the cusp of adulthood and we have their first appearance in a 
New South Wales muster. Although some of the entries are very young, Mary Humm 
just one years old, Joseph Bayliss 5 years and Frances Arndell 6 years. 
Why these particular children are included and not the hundreds of others 
is a mystery.
 
One boy, Isaac Mason, would appear to be duplicated in the Muster, bringing 
the total number of separate individuals in this list to just 19. 
 
The ages of John Crooks and Thomas Hansen are not known.
 
As in the original source document the females have been separated from 
the males. Two of them were already in relationships with men and following 
the English custom, women took their husband's surname upon marriage. 
 
The single females and all the males used their father's surnames, whether 
he was married to their mother or not. Mary Humm, whilst using her father's 
surname, for some reason is recorded as the daughter of Mary Hook - her mother. 
Sarah Morris was using her mother's maiden name of Bird.
 
The parents of Elizabeth Bayley, William Brazil and William Evans are still 
unknown at this time as is the mother of Elizabeth Gurney and several of 
the children born to parents married in England do not have their mother's 
maiden name recorded.
 
The numbers of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" living in each of the regions is 
as follows:
 
 Table 23.1. - Place of Residence
 
 Place No.
 ------------------
 Sydney 10
 Parramatta 6
 Windsor 3
 Liverpool 0
 
The "Status" column in the original muster had only two possibilities; 
free or convict, free presumably included time expired convicts and convict 
was restricted to serving convicts. All the entries in this list are free.
The "Stores" column in the original muster had only two possibilities; 
on or off, the vast majority (15) of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" were off stores 
and not a burden on the government by providing for themselves. 
 
The "Ship of Arrival" column in the original muster records 'born here' for the 
colonial born. Henry Cowper is recorded as arriving on board "Aeolus" instead 
of the "Indispensible".
 
One piece of additional information of particular interest which the 1814 
Muster provides is the "occupations" of the colonial males now that they 
were becoming adults and entering the workforce. The table below lists their 
occupations.
 
 Table 23.2. - Male Occupations
 
 Occupation No. 
 --------------------------
  landholders 3
 apprentices 2
 labourers 1
 servants 1
 single 2
 
It is doubtfull whether Joseph & William Bayliss were both landholders 
at the age of 5 and 9 years respectively. Poor William Green was already 
a labourer at the tender age of 14 years. Isaac Mason's second entry records 
him as 'indulgence' whatever that might mean.
 
The corresponding column heading for the females is "With Whom Lives" although 
one, Ann Cooper, is recorded with an occupation of servant.
 
 Table 22.3. - Female Occupations
 
 Occupation No. 
 ----------------------
 daughter of 2
 single 5
 wife of 2
 servant 1
 
The "Number of Children" column in the original muster has the children divided 
into those on and off stores but they have been totalled to just one number 
in this list. Both married women had children by 1814.
 
Unlike in Volume 1 being younger only one male of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" is 
given the honorific 'Mr', Henry Cowper, which is even more surprising because 
he was only 15 at the time. None of the females were given an honorific of 'Mrs' 
or 'Miss'. 
 
Only one male and two females from the 1811 Muster appear in this muster.

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