Tracing Your Family Tree

Tracing Your Family Tree I List of Resources

Tracing Your Family Tree

Rockdale Library holds a variety of resources to help family historians, including:

Shipping Records
Births, Deaths and Marriages Records
Cemetery Records
Census Records
Convict Records
Electoral Rolls

This is a guide to some of the resources held at the Rockdale Branch Library. Please remember that the following list is not an exhaustive one. Other resources can be found by using the Library's catalogue.

All items listed are located in the Local History Room of the Rockdale Branch Library, which is accessible from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Rockdale Library (Town Hall Building) 448 Princes Highway Rockdale NSW 2216
Phone: 9562 1821

If you need any assistance please ask at the Information Desk.

List of Resources

• Colonial Secretary: Register of Absolute Pardons and Registers of Commendations for Absolute Pardons,
  1791-1843, 1826-1846
• Treasury: Certificates of Depasturing Licences, 1867-1846
• Colonial Secretary: Index and Registers to Land Grants and Leases, 1792-1865
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Ticket of Leave Butts, 1827-1849
• Treasury: Butts and Certificates of Publican’s Licences, 1830-1861
• Assisted Immigrants, 1828-1842
• Index to Bounty Immigrants, 1828-1842
• Colonial Secretary: Reports of Vessels Arrived, 1826-1853
• Shipping Masters Office: Passengers Arriving, 1854-1900
• Colonial Secretary: Ship Musters, 1816-1825
• Immigration: Persons on Bounty Ships Arriving at Port Phillip, 1840-1851
• Shipping Master’s Office: Index to Vessels Arrived, 1837-1900
• Immigration: Agent’s Immigration Lists, 1838-1896
• Immigration: Persons on Bounty Ships Arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-1841
• Colonial Secretary: Registers of Certificates of Naturalisation, 1849-1903
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Alphabetical List of Convicts on Transports, 1788-1823
• Colonial Secretary: Musters and Other Papers, 1824-1825
• Warrants of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Irish Indents), 1823/1825
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Bound Indents, 1786-1835
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Printed Indents, 1831-1842
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Index to Assignment Registers, 1821-1825
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Assignment Registers, 1821-1825
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Convict Death Register, 1828-1879
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Index to Register of Tickets of Leave, 1824-1827
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Register of Tickets of Leave, 1824-1827
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Registers of Convict Applications to Marry, 1826-1851
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Index to Convict Indents, 1837-1842
• Colonial Secretary: Register of Conditional Pardons, 1791-1825
• Colonial Secretary: Registers of Convicts Recommended for Conditional Pardons, 1826-1856
• Free Passengers and Crew on Convict Ships into Sydney, 1830-1840
• Supreme Court of NSW Probate Index 1800-1980
• NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages (Index only) 1788-1905
• Victoria Births, Deaths and Marriages (Index only) 1896-1913
• South Australia Births, Deaths and Marriages (Index only) 1842-1905