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October 2010
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News
October
Seminars
15: Identifying and dating 19th century
photos WEA Centre Adelaide
7:00 to 10:00pm
18: Using South Australian resources in family history
Payneham Library 6:30 to 9:30pm
22: Introduction to FH research (over 7 weeks with
sessions of 1.5 hrs each) WEA Centre Adelaide 8:00 to 9:30pm
28: Tracing your Scottish ancestors Mt Barker Community
Library 1:30 to 4:30pm
November Seminars
21: Finding SA families in newspapers West
Torrens Library 1:30 to 3:00pm
See the seminar program
for more details and bookings.
"I attended your talk 'Family History on the Web' at the
Hub Library last Saturday and again like your other talks, found it
very interesting and enlightening. I certainly learnt a thing or two
about searching on the internet."
TNA web site update
The National Archives (ENG) has launched a new Labs
section in their web site. The idea behind Labs is that it
provides users the chance to test out new online systems and resources
before they go live on the main web site. They are testing several
innovative products on Labs at the moment, including the UK
history photo finder, which allows you to view photos from
the 1920s to 1940s through an interactive map.
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TNA web site update
Feature article
1841
Census in Australia
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1841
Census in Australia
While
Britain introduced the census in 1801, the earlier compilation was
restricted to a mere head-count of the population to provide national
statistics. Some scraps of the householder schedules giving useful
information survive and are worth checking. The first census where
the surviving material names people in households occurred in the
summer of 1841. For details about this particular census and its shortcomings,
the reader is referred to the Newsletter
Archive where they can locate Newsletter #4.
What is less known is that the 1841 census was an Empire-wide undertaking
and local versions of the census are widespread. The content of the
material available varies from place to place.
In the United Kingdom the census was taken on a set day but in Australia
this was not always practicable and the date on the census should
be treated as a guide only. For example in New South Wales the census
is recorded as being undertaken on 2 March.
On starting with New South Wales, the reader needs to remember that
this colony included today's Queensland and Victoria and well as uninhabited
(as far as Europeans were concerned) Northern Territory and that part
of South Australia west of Murat Bay.
The legislation required every householder, employer of servants and
proprietor and occupier of land to complete the census schedule on
the second day ('or on the days immediately subsequent thereto') of
March 1841. The census recorded the population by police districts,
counties and towns and the findings were presented in table form showing
age groups, marital status, civil condition ie convict or free, showing
whether they were born in the colony, arrived free, held a ticket
of leave, were in government or private employment, and religious
denomination. What can actually be found varies between districts
with Lachlan and Liverpool having no individual names,
An online index of just over 9000 names can be found at State
Records NSW and the opportunity to order the material online
is available but to view the material one has to attend the reading
room. The LDS Church holds the abstracts of house-holders returns
on Films 990720/1 and for the Illawarra District: Film 917873 and
the Port Phillip District (present day Victoria): Film 917874 and
these can be ordered for viewing online. This material is also available
online at Ancestry.com.au and South Australian users are
reminded that this material can currently be freely accessed at any
public library.
The Tasmanian records for the 1841 census dated 27 September are held
by the Archives Office of Tasmania and the Mitchell Library. Unfortunately
they are not in the Series CEN1 that includes 1837, 1838, 1842, 1843,
1848, 1851, and 1857 censuses. This index can be searched online
and given it includes years adjacent to 1841 may prove just as useful.
In the case of South Australia, the 1841 Census was undertaken over
a period of time. Research indicates that Adelaide itself was undertaken
before Christmas 1840 while the metropolitan villages were completed
by the end of February 1841 and the country districts by Easter. This
return is quite limited not only in its coverage but also in its content.
The South Australian 1841 Census has been published with permission
of the Premier's Department by Adelaide Proformat. The information
in this return is quite limited and as a consequence an attempt has
been made to add biographical information to the entries. This in
turn is limited to the circumstances evident at the time of the census
and thus the user cannot expect to find the names, for example, of
children born after the census was taken. This material is continually
being updated. The bulk of the additional biographical material comes
from the following…
• Register of Emigrant Labourers seeking Free
Passage 1836–1841
• 1840 SA Directory
• 1841 SA Directory
• SA Pre-civil Registration Births to mid
1842
• SA Pre-civil Registration Marriages to mid
1842
• SA Pre-civil Registration Deaths to mid
1842
• Biographical Index of South Australians
1836–1885 [BISA]
• Hotels and Publicans in South Australia
• Government Gazettes to 1842
The material is available on a CD from
Gould Genealogy or researchers can purchase family extracts
online. A full index is available online at the Adelaide
Proformat's web site and this should be checked before purchasing
a copy of the appropriate material.
Western Australia did not participate in the 1841 Census.
Other former parts of the British Empire where the 1841 Census records
survive include:
• Scotland
• Channel Islands
• Isle of Man
• parts of eastern Canada (then the United
Province of Canada)
• Prince
Edward Island
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