Tasmania

General

  • Tasmania Collection of Records 1830s to 1930s
    Records include musters, immigration, some church records to 1950, hotel licences, court, hospital, prison, land etc. Some records for Norfolk Island and New South Wales are included.
    Available in eResources

Births/Baptisms – Marriages/Divorces – Deaths/Burials

  • Tasmanian Pioneer Index, 1803-1899
    Available in eResources
  • Tasmanian Federation Index: Births 1900-1919, Marriages and Deaths 1900-1930
    Available in eResources
  • Registry of births, deaths and marriages
    1. 1) Index to births 1900-1905
    2. 2) Index to marriages 1900-1919
    3. 3) Index to deaths 1900-1919.
    4. Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 1394
  • Registrar-Generals Department pre-1900 births, deaths and marriages records, Tasmania
    Microfilms numbered and lettered, SLTX/AO/RG, 117-208.
    Find event reference in indexes above, then see booklet on family history cabinet for microfilm numbers.
    Microfilm Drawer no. 13 & 14; Call no. mfm N 220
  • Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database
    This database links individuals with other family members of their families living in Tasmania in the 19th century, based on records at the Archives Office of Tasmania
    Available in eResources
  • Index to Convict Applications for Permission to Marry, 1829-1857
    People who were convicts in Tasmania were not permitted to marry either each other or free people without approval from the Convict Department authorities. The index contains entries for most (but not all) people during the period 1829 to 1857. The actual applications have not survived and registers at Tasmanian Archives are the source for this index. These registers have a two-line entry for each application. The information listed is: applicant's surname and given name; an extra identifier (if two convicts arrived on the same ship and had the same name); the name of the ship the convict arrived on, or 'free' if the person was not a convict; the date of the application; the reference number for the application; the reference number for the marriage record if this has been included.
    Available in eResources
  • Births, Deaths/Burials & Marriages in Ulverstone
    This website includes marriages 1859-1899, burials, births and deaths 1875-1889; births for Ulverstone 1900-1930: deaths for Ulverstone post 1900 (including Penguin up to 1912).
    Available in eResources
  • Births in Australia, 1788-1828
    This database records details of 27,500 early births in the Australian colonies, representing approximately 15,000 pioneer families.
    Available in eResources or at RX 929.394 B619-2 on the NMRR reference shelves.
  • Index to Tasmanian Divorces, 1861-1920
    An index of records relating to petitions for divorce that were heard by the Tasmanian Supreme Court.
    Available in eResources

Parish Registers-Cemetery Transcripts-Monumental Inscriptions: by Placename

  • Australian Cemeteries at www.ozgenonline.com/aust_cemeteries/  - a gateway site which lists all known cemeteries in Australia, giving contact information and links to online data, if available.
  • Hobart-Queenborough cemetery
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 2041
  • Hobart-Cemetery
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 980 and also online at www.srct.com.au/ with Kingston and Eastern Shore cemetery
  • Hobart-Miscellaneous Tasmanian parish records: St. David's Church, 1890-1927
    On NMRR stand-alone computer or Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 2185
  • Launceston-The Carr Villa Memorial Park memorial cemetery and crematorium records [1905-1989].
    • Introduction
    • Crematorium burial records
    • Lawn cemetery burial records
    • Monumental cemetery burial records
    • Monumental lawn cemetery burial records.
    • Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 1027, also on CD at Nmt 4206 (callslip required)
  • Lilydale-Lilydale and Nabowla memorials
    • Lilydale General Cemetery memorials
    • Lilydale General Cemetery without memorials
    • Nabowla General Cemetery.
    • Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 1294
  • Miscellaneous Tasmanian Parish Records: country, 1837-1972
    On NMRR stand-alone computer or Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 2186
  • Nabowla-Nabowla General Cemetery
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 1504
  • Tombstone and memorial inscriptions of Tasmania (T.A.M.I.O.T. Index)
    A consolidated index and listing of all memorials transcribed to 1998 except Carr Villa, Launceston & Cornelian Bay.
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 981
  • Ulverstone-Birth, Deaths/Burials & Marriages Ulverstone
    Marriages 1859-1899; burials; births and deaths 1875-1899; births for Ulverstone 1900-1930; deaths for Ulverstone post 1900 (including Penguin up to 1912).
    Available in eResources

Census

  • Census Returns, 1842-1843, 1848, 1851-1852, 1857
    Microfilm Drawer no. 27; Call no. mfm N 433
    A name index, including 1837 census, available in eResources

Convicts

  • Index to Tasmanian Convicts
    Index to Convict Applications for Permission to Marry,
    1829-1857
    These indexes are available on the State Archives of Tasmania website at www.archives.tas.gov.au/nameindexes
  • Australian Joint Copying Project: HO10 Criminal, New South Wales and Tasmania
    This class of records from the British Public Record Office contains musters and lists of convicts from 1788-1859.
    Microfilm Drawer no. 19, Call no. mfm PRO 59-87 and also available on Ancestry.com which is available in eResources
  • Index to Tasmanian Convicts, 1821-1854 assignment lists of 108 ships held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney
    This index does not include all Tasmanian convicts.
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 1213
  • Index to more Tasmanian convicts shipping lists from papers re convict ships, 1814-1845 (see below)
    This index does not include all Tasmanian convicts.
    Microfiche Drawer no. 26; Call no. mc N 1510
  • Convicts Lists, 1838-1843
    Tasmania, Convict Dept. Sydney (CY reel 958).
    Microfilm Drawer no. 26; Call no. mfm N 408
  • Tasmania-Convicts-Absolute Pardons, 1832-64
    [Sydney [N.S.W.]: (CY reel 1486).
    Microfilm Drawer no. 26; Call no. mfm N 398
  • Convict Passes, c1833-c1853
    Tasmania, Convict Department. [Sydney [N.S.W.] (CY reels 2251, 2251A).
    Microfilm Drawer no. 26; Call no. mfm N 409
  • Convict Returns Tasmania, Convict Department. Sydney [N.S.W.]
    (CY reels 1924, 1925, 1926.)
    vol. 1. 1829-1863 -- vol. 2. 1830-1867 - vol. 3. 1838-1871.
    Microfilm Drawer no. 26; Call no. mfm N 412
  • Campbelltown, Tas., Lists of Convicts, 1832-1854
    Convict Department (CY Reel 1160).
    vol. 1. 1832-1837, vol. 2. 1841, vol. 3. 1843-1854.
    Microfilm Drawer no. 26; Call no. mfm N 414
  • Tasmania-Papers re Convict Ships
    (CY reels 1273-1282).
    Papers regarding convict ships, 1825-1841
    Microfilm Drawer no. 26; Call no. mfm N 410
  • Index to Tasmanians in the Victoria Police Gazette, 1853-1893
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 1621

Directories/Almanacs

  • The Van Diemen's Land Pocket Almanack for the year of our Lord, 1824
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 593
  • The Tasmanian Almanack for the year of our Lord, 1825
    "To which are added Lists of Civil and Military Establishments and Public Institutions in this Dependency ..."
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 593
  • The Hobart Town Almanack for the year ... 1829
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 462
  • Van Diemen's Land Anniversary and Hobart-Town Almanack for the year, 1831
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 462
  • The Van Diemen's Land Annual and Hobart-Town Almanack, 1833
    Includes: An essay on prison discipline, in which is detailed the system pursued in Van Diemen's Land, and, Memoir on the practicality of establishing a permanent communication across the River Derwent, by means of a pontoon bridge, with a project for its construction, by Captain William Jacob.
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 462
  • (Ross's) Van Diemen's Land Annual and Hobart Town Almanack, 1834
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 462
  • (Ross's) Hobart Town Almanack, and Van Diemen's Land annual, 1835-1836
    Pt. 2 was published in Hobart Town Almanack and Van Diemen's Land annual, in 1838.
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 462
  • Elliston's Hobart Town Almanack and Ross's Van Diemen's Land Annual, 1837
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 462
  • The Hobart Town Almanack and Van Diemen's Land Annual, 1838
    Issue for 1838 contains Pt. 2 of "A shred of autobiography: containing various anecdotes, personal and historical, connected with these colonies " [by Jorgen Jorgensen].
    Pt. 1 was published in Ross's Hobart Town Almanack and Van Diemen's Land annual in 1835.
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 462
  • The Hobart Town General Directory for 1847
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 470
  • Wood's Tasmanian Almanack, 1851-1857
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 840
  • A General Directory of Hobart Town, 1854
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 872
  • Hobart Town Directory, 1859
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 873
  • The Royal Kalendar and Guide to Tasmania, 1860
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 839
  • Telephone Exchange [Tasmania], 1901-1950
    Microfiche Drawer no. 60; Call no. mc N 2242
  • Tasmanian Telephone Directory, 1951-1970
    Microfiche Drawer no. 60; Call no. mc N 2242
  • (Hobart and) Southern Tasmania Telephone Directory
    white pages 1971-2004
    pink pages 1971-1976
    yellow pages 1976/77-2006
    Microfiche Drawer no. 60; Call no. mc N 2243
  • North West & West Coasts of Tasmania Telephone Directory,
    white pages 1971-2005/6
    pink pages 1971-1976
    yellow pages 1976/77-2006/7
    Microfiche Drawer no. 60; Call no. mc N 2244
  • North & North Eastern Coasts of Tasmania Telephone Directory (including Launceston)
    white pages 1971-2005
    pink pages 1971-1976
    yellow pages 1976/77-2006
    Microfiche Drawer no. 60; Call no. mc N 2245

Electoral Rolls

  • Hobart List of Electors, 1851
    Card Index stored in stack-see the NMRR Issues Desk. No call number.
  • State of Tasmania & Commonwealth of Australia Electoral Rolls,
    185,1861-1862, 1866-1871, 1873-1876, 1878-1891, 1899-1900, 1903-1913
    Microfilm Drawer no. 26; Call no. mfm N 206
  • Commonwealth Electoral Roll Tasmania [and] [Electoral roll] TAS
    1914-1917, 1919, 1921-1922, 1925, 1928-1930, 1931-1934, 1936-1937, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950-1951, 1953-1956, 1958-1959, 1960-1961, 1963-1969, 1970, 1972-1977, 1979, 1980, 1982-1984,
    1988: Apr 22-current
    Microfiche Drawer no. E25; Call no. mc N 453
  • Commonwealth Electoral Roll Tasmania. List of Polling Places Appointed up to ...1919-1944
    Microfiche Drawer no. 46; Call no. mc N 453
  • Alphabetical list of Commonwealth Polling Places State of Tasmania,
    1919, 1922, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1977
    Microfiche Drawer no. 46; Call no. mc N 1006

Immigration & Shipping

  • Immigration Board Passenger lists, c.1850-1880
    Descriptive lists of immigrants giving details of deaths and births on board.
    Microfilm Drawer no. 27; Call no. mfm N 435
    Index  of passengers' names in Index of assisted immigrants (into Tasmania) 1841-1889
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29, mc N 1070
  • Index to Passenger Arrivals and Departures from Early Launceston newspapers
    Including The Cornwall Chronicle, The Independent and The Launceston Advertiser, Vols. 2-3 include The Examiner.
    Volume 1: 1829-1840; Volume 2: 1841-1845; Volume 3. 1846-1850.
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 1363
  • Marine Board of Hobart passenger lists, 1829-1900
    List of ships arriving at Port of Hobart. Return of ships departure and list of passengers
    Microfilm Drawer no. 27; Call no. mfm N 434
    Passengers' names indexed in Unassisted immigrants & coastal passengers to Hobart Tasmania 1829-1865
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29, mc N 1573
  • Index of Assisted Immigrants (into Tasmania), 1841-1889
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29, mc N 1070
  • Unassisted Immigrants & Coastal Passengers to Hobart Tasmania, 1829-1865 (index)
    Microfiche Drawer no. 29; Call no. mc N 1573
  • Index to Departures,  1817-1867
    This index covers most available records before 1860 and some beyond that date. It is not yet complete.
    Copies of the records may be obtained from the Tasmanian Archives Office.
    Available in eResources

Inquests/Probate

  • Index to Wills and Letters of Administration, 1824-1989
    This searchable database lists records held at the Archives Office  of Tasmania relating to probate including wills, 'grants of probate', and Letters of Administration up to the mid 1990s. Available in eResources

Naturalization

  • Index to Naturalisation, 1835-1905
    Index of records held by the Tasmanian Archives Office relating to the application of non British subjects for certificates of naturalization and denization
    Available in eResources

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