State Archives Collection

This was the first official census undertaken by NSW and covers some 36,500 inhabitants, both convict and free. Browse the digitised alphabetical returns

Statistical returns of the Colony of New South Wales and of areas under its jurisdiction compiled annually from 1822 to 1857

Population muster and census records, 1788-1901

This Guide lists the districts covered in the 1901 Census (NRS 685, Collectors' notebooks) which was taken on the 31 March 1901

The 19th century ‘blanket returns’ are lists of Aboriginal people who received blankets from the Colonial authorities. The records are broadly arranged by locality

Museums of History NSW is pleased to be part of a collaboration with the NSW Parliamentary Library to digitise the Settlers’ Muster Book of 1800, an invaluable record which has been inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register

Covering 1811-1821