Census & Musters - 19th Century

Australia

Census and Muster records may include the following:

  • Name of ship of arrival
  • Convict or free person
  • Adult on or off stores
  • Children on or off stores
  • General remarks 
TITLE SUBJECT YEARS FORMAT LOCATION
Certificates, census & musters " Australia and the British Isles  (Reakes) Guide to census information   Paper H
Checklist of nineteenth century Australian colonial statistical sources : censuses, blue books and statistical registers  (Miller) Guide to census information   Paper H
Paracensus of Australia, 1788-1828  (Donohoe) Victualling lists, military payrolls, musters, 1828 census. All Tasmanian baptismal, burial and marriages records. Ships crews, where known 1788-1828 Paper

CDROM

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Musters and Lists New South Wales and Norfolk Island 1800-1802 (Baxter) Census information – convicts and free persons 1800-1802  Paper H, R, L, T, D, G, R
Land musters, stock returns and lists, Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1822  (Schaffer) Census information - convicts and free persons 1802-1822 Paper

CDROM

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Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1805-1806 (Baxter) Census information – convicts and free persons 1805-1806 Paper L, T
Musters : New South Wales, Hobart Town, Port Dalrymple (Archives Office of NSW) Census information – convicts and free persons 1811, 1818-1821 Microfilm H, L
General Musters of New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land 1811 (Baxter) Census information – convicts and free persons 1811 Paper L, T, B, D, G, R
General Muster of New South Wales 1814 (Baxter) Census information – convicts and free persons 1814 Paper H
Musters : New South Wales, Hobart Town, Port Dalrymple (Archives Office of NSW) Census information – convicts and free persons 1818-1825 Microfilm H, L
Musters : Port Dalrymple and Hobart Town 1819-1822 (Archives Office of NSW) Census information – convicts and free persons 1819-1822 Microfilm H, L
General Muster and land and stock muster of New South Wales 1822 (Baxter) Census information – convicts and free persons 1822 Paper H, L, B, D, G, R
General Muster list of New South Wales Census information – convicts and free persons 1823, 1824, 1825 Paper H, L
Census of New South Wales, November 1828 (Sainty & Johnson) Census information – convicts and free persons 1828 Paper
CDROM
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Index to Census Records, Tasmania Census information 1837-1857 Internet Archives Office of
Tasmania 

 

Great Britain  and Ireland 

TITLE

SUBJECT

YEARS

FORMAT

LOCATION

Making use of the census (Public Record Office)

How to use the census

 

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 English and Welsh census

Census information

1851,1861,1871,
1881,1891,1901

Internet

Ancestry Library Edition  
H,  L, B, D, G, K, R

 English and Welsh census

Census information

1881

Internet

FamilySearch

English and Welsh census

Census information

1901

Internet

UK National Archives