Western Australia Team

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Western Australia
Surnames/tags: Western_Australia District_Tree Australia_Project

Categories Western Australia and Swan River Colony (1829-1832)

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Welcome to the Western Australia Team Page

So much has happened in the lives of the millions of people who have lived in Western Australia that all the libraries of the world would not be enough to house the books that would have to be written to record every detail.^[1]

Contents 1 Western Australia Team 2 Goals 2.1 Other Goals 2.2 Task List 3 Task Ideas 3.1 Sticker Templates 3.2 Free-Space Pages 3.3 Categories 3.4 Notables 4 Western Australia Research Resources 4.1 Vital Statistics 4.2 Census 4.3 Shipping Lists 4.4 Biographical Lists 4.5 Societies, Groups and Organisations 4.6 Miscellaneous Resources 4.7 Books Recommended Reading 5 Related WikiTree Links 6 Sources

Western Australia Team

Team Leader: Mark Dorney

• I'm currently focused on "filling in the gaps", ensuring that 90%+ of all births, deaths and marriages recorded in Western Australia from 1829 are represented in wikitree, and that those individuals are connected to all their first degree relatives. Currently (August 2023) this task is up to 1858.

Team members:

• Karri Chapus
• Michael Dufty
• John Andrewartha - works on items, photos from SLWA, Trove, MCB Portal, ships to WA, and Links people and Profiles
• Oscar Evans
• Simone Collins
• Judy Weggelaar

Goals

Our main goal is to ensure that all Western Australian profiles are of a high standard, as complete as possible, with sources, and connected to the global tree.

Other Goals

• Add profiles for the traditional indigenous land owners, settlers, and pioneers
• Categorisation; making sure categories have CIB's and are in the correct hierarchy structure
• Improving profiles by adding sources, adding biographies, connecting, and clearing up and data problems and suggestions
• Creating special interest topic teams (e.g. sappers and miners, Enrolled Pensioner Force, Group settlement scheme, Parkhurst boys, or any other special interest topic

Task List

• Add Western_Australia to your followed tags.

Task Ideas

If you'd like to help out and don't already have your own pet projects to work on, here are some ideas

• Category: Western Australia, Maintenance Categories Plus links to other reports for Western Australian profiles needing Profile Improvement.
• Australia Project Guidelines for Profile Improvement
• Work on Category:Western Australia, Unsourced Profiles
• Work on Category: Western Australia, Needs Death Record
• Work on Connecting profiles to the main tree Note this work will often take you outside of Western Australia
• Work on Data Doctors Suggestions These are mostly broken links at this point, but not a bad activity if you need a break from thinking hard
• Add and categorise profiles for all the people that arrived in the earliest ships. Here is a list of those arrivals, and further down you'll find links to the Bicentennial Dictioanry and shipping lists

Sticker Templates

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These templates can be used on profiles by copy the text including brackets and pasting directly under the biography heading on a profile, and this will result in the corresponding image.

{{Australia Sticker|Western Australia}}

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{{Australia Born in Colony|colony=Swan River Colony}}

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{{Australia Born in Colony|colony=Colony of Western Australia}}

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{{Australia Came Free|colony=Swan River Colony}}

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{{Australia Came Free|colony=Colony of Western Australia}}

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{{Australian Convicts |fleet=after |colony=Western Australia }}

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Free-Space Pages

Free space pages that are relevent to Western Australia are added here to identify what already exists, and figure out what the team will do moving forward.

Western Australia Historical Images

Belgravia 1866

Dudbrook 1852

Western Australia Cemeteries Team

Western Australia, Cemetery Free Space Pages

Deanmill Western Australia One Place Study

Western Australia Local Government Directory

Categories

Western Australia

Western Australia, Places

Notables

• Captain Collett Barker
• John Forrest
• Roberta Jull

Western Australia Research Resources

Research resources for Western Australia genealogy, access by clicking on the individual links.

Vital Statistics

Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages

Department of the Justice

Level 10

141 St Georges Terrace

PERTH WA 6000

Telephone: 1300 305 021

Facsimile: (08) 9264 1599

• Registry for births, deaths and marriages WA pioneer index This registry offers free online historic index searching of births, deaths and marriages from 1841, to 1932 (births), to 1936 (marriages) and to 1971 (deaths)
• WA reverse marriage Marriages 1906 to 1965
• Metropolitan Cemeteries Board Very good coverage 20th and 21st century burials and cremations
• OzBurials] Technically a national resource, but good coverage in regional WA, headstone transcriptions
• East Perth Cemeteries] Early Perth burials with memorial inscriptions
• Alma and Skinner Street Burial Records Early Fremantle burials

Census

Yes WA has Census records. Unfortunately the 1832 Census and 1837 Census are not on-line, but the State Library will do lookups for you.

• 1829 Muster
• 1859 Census This only survives for York

Shipping Lists

• 1829 Shipping Arrivals The Western Australia Genealogy Society has published passenger lists for ships that arrived in 1829.
• Perth Dead Persons Society] has passengers lists for quite a number of ships

Biographical Lists

• The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888. Nearly comprehensive for the first few decades of the colony with few errors
• Fremantle Prison, History, Convict-era, Convict Profile The Fremantle Prison website has a convict profile database, with detailed profiles for all 9721 convicts transported to Western Australia.
• Enrolled Pensioner Force WA This is a great resource provided by the EPG special interest group of WAGS (Western Australian Genealogical Society. The EPG group started this website to provide the only complete list of pensioner guards and warders that came out to WA on the convict ships and formed the first 'police force'
• Western Australian virtual miners memorial
• Sappers and Miners in WA biographies of sappers and miners who emigrated to Western Australia

Societies, Groups and Organisations

• Western Australian Pioneers and Settlers Facebook group.
• WAGS - Western Australia Genealogy Society Inc
• Perths Dead Persons Society Despite the name Perth DPS is active and has a lot of great resources available on their website
• Albany family history
• outback family history
• Carnamah local histories library
• Eastern Goldfields historical society
• Birtwistle wiki Armadale-Kelmscott area profiles created by the local history library

Miscellaneous Resources

• Fremantle Stuff has a lot of historical information.
• Geoscience Australia Place Name Search
• Dead Reckoning an ebook on how to research your Western Australian Ancestors provided by the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA)
• State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) the SLWA website has scans of the old post office directories available to peruse, also police gazettes, ephemera and so much more
• Trove Trove is a provided by the National Library of Australia, and offers so many great resources, however the digitised newspaper collection is fully searchable. You can also browse publications by place; so type in Western Australia and you will find a long list of newspapers, and other publications, and a whole tonne of issues and editions to browse!

Books Recommended Reading

• Gill, A. (2016). Convict Assignment in Western Australia 1842-1851. Carlisle, Western Australia: Hesperian Press.
• History of West Australia ebook on wikisource, it is in the public domain because it was published in Australia and its copyright has expired, in accordance with Australian copyright laws this now belongs in the public domain. It is also a great book.

Related WikiTree Links

• Western Australia Historical Images
• Western Australia Cemeteries Team
• Western Australia Local Government Directory

Group Settlement Scheme Poster 2

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Sources

1. ↑ Davis, Russell Earls. (2012) A concise history of Western Australia. Woodslane Press; Warriewood, NSW. pg 1.