LIST 15 - BAPTISMS - TROISIEME DIZAINE - OTHER CHURCHES

 
 
This 'primary source' list contains the details of baptisms for children who 
were baptized later in life which took them outside the general ambit of the 
records consulted for the basis of this book, 1811 to 1820, recorded in churches 
other than the eleven already listed. There were 84 in total, 48 males and 
36 females.
 
The information recorded for each child includes: 
 
 reference number
 date of baptism 
 date of birth
 Christian name
 father's Christian name 
 father's family name 
 father's year of arrival in the colony 
 father's ship of arrival in the colony 
 father's status upon arrival in the colony 
 mother's Christian name
 mother's maiden name
 mother's year of arrival in the colony
 mother's ship of arrival in the colony
 mother's status upon arrival in the colony
 parent's civil status at the time of the child's birth
 parent's marital status at the time of the child's birth
 parent's year & country/church of marriage where applicable 
 
The list is presented firstly by denomination; Anglican, 
Catholic,Presbyterian, Wesleyan then Baptist, secondly by the date of 
founding of each church, next in chronological order by date of baptism, finally 
in chronological order by date of birth.
 
These Other Church baptisms account for 1% of the "Troisieme Dizaine".
 
Where the father's surname has a second name separated by a slash '/', the surname 
after the slash is how the name was spelt in the original document or if second 
name is substantially different it refers to an alias. Where the mother's surname 
has a second name separated by a slash, the surname after the slash is her 
married name at the time of the recording being made if she was married more 
than once. 
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the entry in the original source 
document.
 
In the decade following 1820 there was a veritable blossoming of churches in 
the colony;
 
 Holy Trinity Kelso(1826)
 St Annes Kissing Point(1827)
 St James Pitt Town(1825)
 St Johns Wilberforce(1826)
 St James Sydney(1824)
 St Pauls Cobbitty(1827)
 St Peters Campbelltown(1821)
 St Thomas Port Macquarie(1824)
 St Thomas Sackville Reach(1821)
 
all of the Anglican communion.
 
The first Presbyterian kirk was also founded(1824) plus the first Wesleyan 
chapels appeared.
 
There are ten duplicate entries on this list; three Anglican, five Catholic 
and two Wesleyan. Thus the total individual entries is reduced to 74 with 39 
males and 35 females.
 
It should be noted that this list contains considerably more information 
than will be found in the original church register, being the result of decades 
of research, principally associated with the Pioneer Register Project.
 
By definition all of these baptisms were "late" in the sense of being conducted 
well after infancy, perhaps with the exception of those in 1821 and not all can 
with certainty claim to be members of the "Troisieme Dizaine". The last to 
be baptized in 1856 was Henry Dowling at the age of forty six at Launceston 
in Van Diemens Land (which incidentally is the only Baptist entry). Henry 
was born in London but his ship of arrival is unknown.
 
Apart from these baptisms there may well have been others which hopefully may 
come to light under the stimulus of the interest created by this treatise.
 
There were ten percent more boys baptised than girls. Exactly half had convict 
or former convict fathers and a quarter had convict or former convict mothers. 
There were five colonial born fathers and nineteen colonial born mothers. 
More than three quarters were illegitimate births. Unfortunately the civil 
status of 20% of the fathers and 21% of the mothers in unknown at this time.
 
 Table 15.1 - Baptisms Other Churches
 
 Total Males Females Convict Convict Colonial Colonial Legitimate Illegitimate
  Father Mother Father Mother 
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 >1820 84 48 36 42 22 5 19 68 16  
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 Totals 84 48 36 42 22 5 19 68 16
Percentages 55% 45% 50% 26% 6%  23% 81% 19%
 
Entries on this list have one of the reference identifiers; "Bapt", "Cla", 
"GP", "HTK", "I-RC", "M-RC", "Pet", "SAKP", "SAS", "SDPA", "SGS", "SJPT", "SJW", 
"SKB", "SKPH", "SKS", "SLR", "SMK", "SMNN", "SMWR", "SPC", "SPCO", "STPM", "WMH", 
"WML", "WMS", "WMW" on List 1. To locate an entry on this list; firstly 
an alphabetical search on the name would be made on List 1 from which the 
church and date of baptism would be retrieved, secondly using the appropriate 
church, the baptism would be located on this list.
 
The abbreviations used in this list are explained below:
 
 d = defacto
 m = married
 
 CF = came free
 GS = government servant (convict)
 FS = free by servitude (emancipist)
 AP = free by absolute pardon
 CP = free by conditional pardon
 EX = exile
 NC = native of colony (aboriginal)
 NE = never emigrated
 -- = unknown
 
 Eng = England
 Ire = Ireland
 Sct = Scotland
 Wal = Wales
 
  Esx = Essex
 Ldn = London
 Sry = Surry
 Ssx = Sussex
 
 CCC = Christ Church Castlereagh
 CCN = Christ Church Newcastle
 HTK = Holy Trinity Kelso
 SAKP = St Annes Kissing Point
 SAS = St Andrews Sydney
 SDH = St Davids Hobart VDL
 SDPA = St Davids Port Arthur VDL
 SGS = St Georges Sorell VDL
 SJL = St Johns Launceston
 SJP = St Johns Parramatta
 SJPT = St James Pitt Town
 SJS = St James Sydney
 SJW = St Johns Wilberforce
  SLL = St Lukes Liverpool
 SLR = St Lukes Richmond VDL
 SMH = St Marys Hobart VDL
 SMK = St Michaels Kelso - Catholic 
 SMNN = St Matthews New Norfolk VDL
 SMS = St Marys Sydney
 SMW = St Matthews Windsor
 SMWR = St Matthews Windsor - Catholic
 SPC = St Peters Campbelltown
 SPCO = St Pauls Cobbitty
 SPR = St Peters Richmond
 SPS = St Phillips Sydney
 STPM = St Thomas Port Macquarie
 STSR = St Thomas Sackville Reach
 
 Bapt = Baptist VDL
 Cla = Clarence VDL - Anglican
 GP = Green Ponds VDL - Anglican
 I-RC = Illawarra - Catholic
 M-RC = Maitland - Catholic
 Pet = Cooks River, Petersham - Aanglican
 SKB = Scots Kirk Bathurst
 SKPH = Scots Kirk Portland Head
 SKS = Scots Kirk Sydney
 WMH = Wesleyan Methodist - Hobart VDL
 WML = Wesleyan Methodist - Launceston VDL
 WMS = Wesleyan Methodist - Sydney
 WMW = Wesleyan Methodist - Widsor
 
 * = duplicate entry 

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