BAPTISMS - ST SAVIOURS GOULBURN

 
 
The first baptism was performed at St Saviours by the Rev.Vincent on 
the 31st March 1833. A further 203 baptisms performed during the decade,
although 4 refer to children born before 1831, plus 27 performed after 
1840 for children born between the years 1831 and 1840.
 
The information recorded for each baptism includes: 
 
 date of baptism 
 date of birth
 child's Christian name
 father's family name 
 father's Christian name 
 father's year & ship of arrival in the colony 
 father's status upon arrival in the colony 
 mother's maiden name
 mother's Christian name
 mother's year & ship of arrival in the colony
 mother's status upon arrival in the colony
 parents' civil status at the time of the child's birth
 parents' marital status at the time of the child's birth
 parents' year & country/church of marriage where applicable 
 child's place of birth
 father's quality or profession 
 officiating minister
 reference number
 
Father's year & ship of arrival in the colony, father's status upon arrival in the colony, 
mother's year & ship of arrival in the colony, mother's status upon arrival in the colony, 
parents' civil status at the time of the child's birth, parents' marital status 
at the time of the child's birth, parents' year & country/church of marriage 
where applicable are all value added details resulting from extensive personal 
research, information which makes this work so valuable for family historians.
 
The microfilm copying after 1840 was not particularly good with the result the
the left hand side of the registers pages were often not fully included meaning
that the day of the the month of baptism was not visible.
 
In the church register the mother's maiden name is only recorded when the birth 
is illegitimate, but again through personal research the maiden name of many of the 
married women has been discovered as well.
 
The list is presented in chronological order by date of baptism then by reference
number. The records in the register are not always in strict chronological order 
but this has been corrected in this work.
 
The Rev.John Vincent was appointed as the first chaplain in 1833 and remained until 
the end of 1837 when Rev.William Sowesby took over and he remained in the parish 
until his death in 1875. The Rev.Robert Cartwight, who was the incumbant in the 
neighbouring parish of Gunning and Yass officiated at 17 baptisms between 1838 and 1840.
Bishop William Broughton officiated at three, Rev.Charles Dickinson at two and 
Rev.Robert Forest at one. Rev.Sowesby baptized his own daughter in 1839.
 
With regard to the fathers 70% have been identified. 
 
Just eight were colonial born plus seven were childhood arrivals, combined making up 
7% of the total; 73 were convicts or former convicts (36%), 44 arrived free in the 
colony (22%) and 11 were in the military (5%).
 
With regard to the mothers only 73% have been identified. 
 
Thirty six were colonial born plus nineteen were childhood arrivals, combined making up 
27% of the total; 39 were convicts or former convicts (19%) and 55 arrived free 
in the colony (27%).
 
Assuming listing the mother's surname indicates she was not married to 
the child's father, only six (3%) of the births were illegitimate.
 
Baptisms relating to births prior to 1831 are indicated with a hash  sign 
(#), duplicate baptisms are indicated with an asterix (*) and baptisms for 
children born at sea with a percent sign (%).
 
There were five baptisms in the State Archives Pioneer Series file which 
have no entry on this parish register. Such a large number would suggest
that an error has been made in assigning a code for the parish and others
may result from typographical errors and relate to post 1840 birhts.
These are identified with the percent sign (%). 
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the relevant entry in the 
original source document. The numbers commenced from 0001 in 1833 and ran to
0075 by the end of 1837. The numbering system was re-initialized in 1838 to B001 
and again in 1839 to C001 and ran to C065 by the end of the decade (The number 
0052 was duplicated).
 
Entries on this list have the reference identifier "SSG" on Lists 1 & 2. To 
locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name would 
be made on Lists 1 or 2 from which the reference number would be retrieved, 
secondly using the appropriate number, the entry would be located.

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