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Tree House Library
A sample from The Tree House library.
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BOOKSMusters and Lists, New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1800-1802Includes Settlers' Muster Book 1800, Governor King's List 1801 and Norfolk Island Victualling Book 1802.
Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1805-1806 Includes General Musters, Land and Stock Musters, Marsden's Female Muster 1806 and Norfolk Island Muster 1805.
General Musters of New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land 1811
General Muster and Land & Stock Muster of New South Wales, 1822 The 1822 General Muster is a valuable early Australian record providing social, biographical and genealogical details of NSW residents in 1822. It records the usual important details found in general musters, such as ship of arrival, status, occupation, employer, relationship and residence, documenting new people to the colony, and providing further information about residents recorded in earlier musters. Edited by Carol J Baxter.
General Muster List of NSW 1823, 1824, 1825 The last surviving muster return of the NSW population. By 1828 it was generally known that free people could not be compelled to attend general musters and the first act for taking a census of NSW was passed by the Legislative Council of NSW in that year. Edited by Carol J Baxter.
Census of New South Wales, November 1828 Shows surname, name, age, free or bond, ship, year, sentence/respite, occupation, employer, residence and reference number. Edited by Malcolm R Sainty & Keith A Johnson and published by the Library of Australian History, Sydney.
General Return of Convicts in New South Wales, 1837 General Muster of Male & Female Convicts in the Colony of New South Wales and Norfolk Island on the 31st December 1837. Shows convicts' name, age, ship, year, where tried, master, district and remarks + reference numbers. Edited by N G Butlin, C W Cromwell, K L Suthern.
Ships' Deserters 1852-1900, by Jim Melton. This volume contains approx. 10,000 notified desertions and other absences by seamen.
Bound for Australia, by David T Hawkings. A wonderful book giving examples of the documentary sources available to researchers tracing convicts. The index contains references to at least 5,000 people.
Australia's First Century 1788-1888 Facsimiled from Cassell's Picturesque Australasia, edited by E. E. Morris 1889.
Australia Bound, The Story of West Country Connections 1688-1888, by Martyn Brown.
Hampshire Machine Breakers, The story of the 1830 Riots, the Trials and the Rioters, by Jill Chambers. With biographical details.
Rebels of the Fields, Robert Mason and the convicts of the Eleanor, by Jill Chambers. With biographical details.
Depraved and Disorderly, Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia, by Joy Damousi (focuses on period 1820s-1840s).
Emigrants and Transportees from West Sussex [to 1889], edited by Alison McCann.
Monuments & Memorials: a record of public monuments and memorials in NSW including war memorials, statues, plaques etc. Edited by Beryl Henderson.
The book of Sydney Suburbs - a short history of Sydney suburbs. Compiled and edited by Frances Polon.
The Somerset Years, by Florence Chuk. Details and biographies of immigrants to Victoria from Somerset and Bristol, 1839-1854.
The Diamond Valley Story, by Deanne H Edwards. A history of this Melbourne [Victoria] suburb.
Avoca [Victoria], The Early Years, by Margery and Betty Beavis.
Far Country, by Alan Powell. A Short History of the Northern Territory.
Adelaide 1836-1976, a History of Difference, by Derek Whitelock.
Register Personal Notices, Vols I - III [1836-1870 inc.] compiled by Reg Butler & Alan Phillips. Birth, death, marriage and other personal notices appearing in this newspaper from its commencement in 1836.
The South Hummocks Story, by Rex Penna. A history of the farming district 70 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia.
Southern Passages, A Maritime History of South Australia, by Ronald Parsons.
Port Wakefield [South Australia] - a history, by P F Donovan.
DIRECTORIES
SANDS & KENNY'S Melbourne Directories 1857-1861 (on CD)
Modern Street Directories for SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE & CANBERRA
AUSTRALIAN telephone directories - March 1996 (on CD)
VICTORIA & SOUTH AUSTRALIA telephone directories, circa 1981/2
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY telephone directories, circa 1998/9
MICROFICHE INDEXES
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