Repository of harvested indexes
Harvested May 2023
This is a repository of data harvested from NSW State Archives online indexes. Data from each index has been extracted from the web interface and saved as a single CSV-formatted file for easy download.
Currently: 75 indexes harvested with 2,481,881 rows of data.
| Title | Number of rows | Download data | View at State Archives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aboriginal People in the Register of Aboriginal Reserves 1875-1904 | 78 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Assisted Immigrants Index 1839-1896 | 200,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Australian Railway Supply Detachment 1914 | 65 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Bankruptcy index 1888-1929 | 30,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Bench of Magistrates Index 1788-1820 | 4,442 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Botanic Gardens and government domains employees | 916 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Bubonic plague index 1900-1908 | 567 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Census - 1841 | 9,355 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Chemists, druggists and pharmacists index 1876-1920 | 2,967 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Child care and protection index 1817-1942 | 21,292 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Colonial (Government) Architect index 1837-1970 | 2,373 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Colonial Secretary Letters Received, 1826-1896 | 205,863 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Colonial Secretary's Papers 1788-1825 | 144,572 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Colonial Secretary's letters relating to land 1826-1856 | 20,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Colonial Secretary's main series of letters received | 7,638 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Convict assignments index 1821-1825 | 6,156 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Convict exiles index 1849-1850 | 3,004 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Convict indents (digitised) index 1788-1801 | 20,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Convicts applications to marry 1825-1851 | 14,327 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Convicts index 1791-1873 | 150,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Coroners' inquests index 1796-1824 | 808 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Court of Civil Jurisdiction index 1799-1814 | 2,876 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Court of Claims (Land) index 1833-1922 | 2,966 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Crew and passengers 1828-1841 | 2,560 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Criminal court records index 1788-1833 | 5,028 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Criminal depositions (Deposition Books) index 1849-1949 | 117,508 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Criminal indictments index 1863-1919 | 20,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Deceased estates index 1880-1958 | 577,891 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Depasturing licenses index 1837-1851 | 7,449 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Dependent children registers 1883-1923 | 28,910 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Devonshire Street Cemetery reinterment index | 9,559 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Divorce records index 1873-1923 | 21,239 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Fire Commissioners Personnel | 3,767 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Gaol inmates & prisoners photos index 1870-1930 | 52,055 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Gold (auriferous) lease registers 1874-1953 | 60,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Indigenous colonial court cases 1788-1838 | 65 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Infirm & destitute (Government) asylums index 1880-1896 | 20,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Inquest index 1942-1963 | 45,547 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Insolvency index 1842-1887 | 23,108 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Intestate estates index 1821-1913 | 30,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Land grants and leases (registers) 1792-1865 | 5,627 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Letters re migration to NSW 1838-1857 | 22,771 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Maintenance registers - Metropolitan Children's Court 1915-1917 | 1,372 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Miscellaneous immigrants index 1828-1843 | 8,821 | CSV file | Browse index |
| NSW Government employees granted military leave | 20,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| NSW King’s / Queen’s Counsel appointment correspondence | 2,083 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Naturalization index 1834-1903 | 9,860 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Nominal Roll of the First Railway Section (AIF) | 416 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Norfolk Island special bundles index 1794-1813 | 216 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Nurses index 1926-1954 | 46,499 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Police service registers 1852-1913 | 20,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Port Macquarie Small Debts Register, 1845-1887 | 2,036 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Probate records - supplementary index 1790-1875 | 1,626 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Public Works Salary Registers | 523 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Publicans' licenses index 1830-1861 | 20,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Quarter sessions cases 1824-1837 | 6,232 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Railway employment records 1856-1917 | 763 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour | 1,214 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Register of Firms index 1903-1922 | 50,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| School teachers' rolls 1869-1908 | 20,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Schools and related records 1876-1979 | 30,181 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Soldier (Closer) Settlement - Returned Soldiers Transfer files 1907-1951 | 9,656 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Soldier (Closer) Settlement transfer registers 1919-1925 | 4,957 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Soldier (Closer) settlement promotion files index 1913-1958 | 4,354 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Soldier Settlement loan files index 1906-1960 | 7,642 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Soldier Settlement miscellaneous files index 1916 | 1,050 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Soldier Settlement purchases index 1905-1937 | 9,776 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Squatters and graziers index 1837-1849 | 9,003 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Surveyor General's crown plans 1792-1886 | 5,455 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Surveyors' field books 1794-1860 | 813 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Surveyors’ letters 1822-1855 | 157 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Tramway employees 1879-1911 | 10,606 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Unassisted immigrants index 1842-1855 | 140,000 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Unemployed in Sydney 1866 | 3,222 | CSV file | Browse index |
| Vessels arrived in Sydney 1837-1925 | 129,999 | CSV file | Browse index |
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Cite as¶
Sherratt, Tim. (2023). GLAM-Workbench/nsw-state-archives (version v1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7889259
