LIST 6 - BAPTISMS - TROISIEME DIZAINE - ST DAVIDS HOBART
This third 'primary source' list contains the details of 677 baptisms recorded
in St David's church register for children born between 1811 and 1820, 340 males
and 337 females.
The information recorded and presented for each child is exactly as described for St Phillips in List 4.
These St Davids baptisms account for 10% of the "Troisieme Dizaine".
There were nine duplicate entries on the register during the period under
study reducing the total of individual baptisms to 668; 337 males and 331
females. All duplications were performed at St Davids. Frederick Hull was
baptized three times, twice at St Davids and once at St Johns Launceston.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 relevant entry in the
original source document.
The register did not record the date of birth until 1814 so it has been assumed,
not unreasonably in most cases, that the year of baptism roughly corresponds to the year of birth. The several children with an exact date of birth recorded
before 1814 were derived from other sources.
Most children were baptized soon after birth but there were fifty who were later
baptisms, the last being for Thomas Taylor in 1850 at the age of thirty nine. The only problem is to determine if their birth took place in the colony or
not.
Mary Dotman claims to have been born at Isle de France and Frederick Hyde
in India. Donald McLeod was born at sea on board 'Skelton'. John Oswell and
Edward Williamson were born at Parramatta and Jane Thomas and Joseph Wright
were born at Sydney before moving to Van Diemens LandThe list contains twenty baptisms of native children.There were slightly more boys baptized than girls. Only 40% of fathers were
convicts or former convicts, and only one fifth of the mothers were convicts or former convicts. The big change for the "Troisieme Dizaine" was the increasing proportion of colonial born parents; 35% of mothers and 12% of fathers.
Sadly the civil status of 20% of parents is unknown at this time. On a brighter
note over three quarters of the births were legitimate.
Table 6.1 - Baptisms St Davids Hobart Total Males Females Convict Convict Colonial Colonial Legitimate
Father Mother Father Mother
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------1811 32 19 13 13 4 2 9 16
1812 37 20 17 22 5 2 16 27
1813 33 19 14 13 3 3 11 15
1814 47 21 26 17 2 3 21 37
1815 57 18 39 22 13 4 21 37
1816 54 28 26 27 11 11 26 47
1817 70 32 38 34 17 12 30 56
1818 75 39 36 31 18 11 23 63
1819 113 57 56 45 31 15 35 80
1820 109 62 47 36 20 18 39 82
>1820 50 25 25 15 11 3 7 41
--------------------------------------------------------------------------Totals 677 340 337 275 135 84 238 500
Percentages 50.2% 49.8% 40.5% 19.9% 12.6% 35.2% 74.4%
Entries on this list have the reference identifier "SDH" 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 date of baptism would be retrieved, secondly using
the appropriate date, the baptism would be located on this list and finally
an alphabetical search on the name would be made on the baptismal date if
there should be more than one entry for that date.
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