LIST 26 - 1819 MUSTER - TROISIEME DIZAINE - PORT DALRYMPLE

 
 
The second of the Van Diemens Land musters to be presented is the 1819 Muster 
for Port Dalrymple, taken in October of that year. The list contains 104 
members of the "Troisieme Dizaine" (98 colonial born, 6 childhood arrivals, 
49 males and 55 females).
 
The information presented for each entry includes:
 
 family name
 Christian name
 year of birth 
 place 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 
 whether on or off stores 
 date of arrival in Port Dalrymple
 ship of arrival in Port Dalrymple
 surname as it appears in the original muster.
 
The list is ordered alphabetically on the child's name.
 
The 1819 Muster of Port Dalrymple Van Diemens Land as presented here is sourced 
from Mrs Irene Schaffer's book "Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists of Van 
Diemens Land 1803-1822" - "a list of the children of free men".
 
Obviously members of the "Troisieme Dizaine" born after 1819 are not included.
 
Note that the list does not include the children of serving convicts - 
the greater part of the population of Port Dalrymple at the time, although 
fortunately for the purposes of this work, time expired and emancipated 
convicts were considered as 'free'. 
This  muster was primarily a commissariat document to allow the authorities 
to determine who was drawing rations from the government store and who 
was not, thereby assisting with the planning and management of the settlement's 
food stocks.
 
There were 33 (32%) children 'on stores' in this muster.
 
The only information provided by the "list of children" was the age of the 
child, whether the child was on or off stores and occasionally the name of 
one or both parents.
 
Information which has been added to each child from the Pioneer Register project 
includes; year of birth, place of birth, parents names and status.
 
For three of the children their parents remain unknown:
 
 Elizabeth Karsey
 Phillip Skelton
 William Williams
 
The fathers of John Rose & Catherine Scott and the mother of Henry Hadden 
are listed in the muster but further than that their identities are unknown at 
this time.
 
The places of birth of the 98 colonial born are as shown in the Table below.
 
 Table 26.1. - Place of Birth
 
 Place No. 
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 Port Dalrymple 62
 Port Jackson 24
 Hobart Town 4
  Norfolk Island 2
 Unknown 6
 
For the 26 children born on Norfolk Island or Port Jackson it was thought useful 
to include a column called "Whence came to Port Dalrymple", to indicate the 
ship sailed upon.
 
It has not been possible to identify the ship to Port Dalrymple in every case. 
In some cases a date is given before which (<)  or after  which  (>) the person 
was known to have been in Port Dalrymple. The dates chosen are based on 
marriage dates or the birth dates of their children.

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