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Using the Archives Resources Kit Re-issued July 2003 USING THE ARCHIVES RESOURCES KIT THE STATE RECORDS AUTHORITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Sydney, Australia Issued July 2003 USING THE ARCHIVES RESOURCES KIT © Copyright reserved by the Government of New South Wales, 2000 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any method without the prior written consent of the State Records Authority of New South Wales. Published: 2000, Reprinted 2003 Published by: The State Records Authority of New South Wales PO Box 516 KINGSWOOD NSW 2747 AUSTRALIA E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au ISBN 0 7310 1756 0 July 2003 Using the Archives Resources Kit TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................9 . 1.1 Community Access to the State archives .............................................................9 1.2 Community Access Points ................................................................9................. 1.3 Archives Resources Kit .....................................................................................9 1.4 Conditions of Use .............................................................................................9 2. GUIDES AND OTHER EXPLANATORY MATERIAL ...........................................................11 2.1 Concise Guide ................................................................................................11 . 2.2 Subject Guides and Leaflets ................................................................11 .............. 2.3 Archives in Brief ..............................................................................................13 2.4 Indexes ................................................................................................14 .......... 3. MICROFORMS ................................................................................................15.... 3.1 The Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825 ................................15................. 3.1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................14 .... 3.1.2 Summary of the Colonial Secretary's Papers in microform ................................16 .... 3.1.3 Using the Colonial Secretary's Papers and Index ................................17 .................. 3.2 Arrivals in New South Wales, including Moreton Bay, and Port Phillip ................................................................................................18 ........... 3.2.1 Indexes to ships arrived, 1837-1925 ................................................................18 .. 3.2.2 Assisted (Bounty) immigrants to New South Wales, 18 1828-42 ......................................................................................................... 3.2.3 Assisted immigrants to New South Wales, 1838-96, and Moreton Bay, 1848-59 ('Agent's Immigrant Lists') ................................20 ............... 3.2.4 Wage agreements and entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships, 1844-45 ................................................................21 ................. 3.2.5 Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle and 22 Moreton Bay, 1848-91 ('Board's Immigrant Lists') ............................................... 3.2.6 Wives and families of convicts on bounty ships, 1849-55 ................................24 ...... 3.2.7 Germans on bounty ships, 1849-52 ................................................................24 ... 3.2.8 Passenger lists of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854- 55 ................................................................................................25 ........ 3.2.9 Members of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-57 ................................25 .. 3.2.10 Immigration deposit journals, 1853-1900 ................................25 ........................... 3.2.11 Assisted immigrants to Port Phillip, 1839-51 ................................26 ....................... 3.2.12 Unassisted passengers, 1826-1900 ................................................................27 .... 3.3 Departures from the Colony of New South Wales ................................31 ......... 3.3.1 Passengers departing, 1816-25 ................................................................31 ......... STATE RECORDS AUTHORITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 5 Using the Archives Resources Kit July 2003 3.4 Births, deaths and marriages ................................................................31 ........ 3.4.1 Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1787-1856 ................................32 ......... 3.4.2 Abstract of all licences for marriage granted to free persons, 17 March 1813 - 26 December 1827 ................................34 ..................... 3.4.3 Reports of inquests, 1796 - April 1824, June 1828 ................................34 ............... 3.4.4 Registers of Coroners' inquests and Magisterial inquiries, 1834 - June 1942 ................................................................35............................ 3.5 Convict records .............................................................................................36 3.5.1 Convict arrivals, 1788-1842 ................................................................36 .............. 3.5.2 Musters and other papers relating to convict ships, 42 1790-1849 ..................................................................................................... 3.5.3 Convict assignment registers, 24 December 1821 - 17 January 1825 ................................................................70............................. 3.5.4 Register of Tickets of Leave, 29 July 1824 - 8 March 1827 ................................71 .... 3.5.5 Ticket of Leave butts, 31 March 1827 - 20 August 1867 ................................71 ....... 3.5.6 Register of Conditional Pardons, 16 December 1791 - 6 December 1825 ................................................................73............................ 3.5.7 Registers of Convicts recommended for Conditional Pardons, 6 May 1826 - 30 June 1856 ................................................................74 . 3.5.8 Registers of Absolute Pardons, 16 December 1791 - 1 July 74 1843 .............................................................................................................. 3.5.9 Registers of recommendations for Absolute Pardons, 6 May 1826 - 1846 ................................................................................................75 ... 3.5.10 Registers of convicts' applications to marry, 1825-51 ................................75 ........... 3.5.11 Convict death register, 1828-79 ................................................................77 ........ 3.6 Land records ................................................................................................77 . 3.6.1 Indexes to land grants and leases, 1792-1865, and 77 selected registers of land grants and leases, 1792-1867 ....................................... 3.6.2 Registers of depasturing licences, 1837-51 ................................79 ......................... 3.7 Naturalization records ..................................................................................79 3.7.1 Letters of Denization, 1834-47 ................................................................79 .......... 3.7.2 Naturalization index, 1849-1903 ................................................................80 ....... 3.7.3 Registers of Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903 ................................81 .......... 3.8 Orphans ................................................................................................82 ........ 3.8.1 Applications for admission into the Orphan Schools, 82 1825-33 ......................................................................................................... 3.8.2 Applications for children out of the Orphan Schools, 82 1825-33 ......................................................................................................... 3.8.3 Female Orphan School Admission books, 1817-32 ................................83 ............... 3.8.4 Male Orphan School Admission books, 1819-33 ................................83 ................... 6 STATE RECORDS AUTHORITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES July 2003 Using the Archives Resources Kit 3.9 Professions and occupations ................................................................83 ......... 3.9.1 Medical Board: Minutes of proceedings and register, December 1838 - February 1901 ................................................................83 ....... 3.9.2 Register of chemists and druggists, 1876-1920 ................................84 ................... 3.9.3 Roll of barristers, solicitors, attorneys, proctors and conveyancers, 1824-76 ................................................................84 .................... 3.9.4 Certificates of publicans' licences, 1830-61 ................................84 ......................... 3.9.5 Record of appointments to Government Offices, 1814-25 ................................86 ..... 3.9.6 Returns of the Colony ('Blue Books'), 1822-57 ................................86 .................... 3.9.7 Public Service Lists, 1858-70 ................................................................87 ............ 3.9.8 Register of Police, 1862-1904 ................................................................89 ........... 3.10 Other records ................................................................................................89

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