Australia, New South Wales, 1891 Census - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
These records include an index with images of census returns from 1891 for New South Wales. Original records are located in the Mitchell Library in Sydney. To protect individual privacy, all national censuses were destroyed after statistical information was collected. The New South Wales 1891 census was one of the few census records that survived the destruction. Australian states also took censuses—mostly from the nineteenth century on. However, many of the censuses did not survive because they were taken for population studies and taxation and destroyed after the data was analyzed.

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The following information may be found in these records:
 * Name of ancestor
 * Occupation
 * Marital status
 * Address
 * Number of individuals in household
 * Ethnicity

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 * Given name and surname
 * Approximate year and place of residence
 * Family relationships.

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 * The person may be recorded with an abbreviated or variant form of their name
 * Remember that spelling was generally not standardized until the early part of the 20th century

Research Helps
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in Australia.
 * Australia Record Finder
 * Australia Research Tips and Strategies

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Austrália, Nova Gales do Sul, Censo de 1891 (Registros Históricos do FamilySearch)