1841 Convict Census

The 1841 Convict Census is very sparse on details and only shows approximate ages and the number of people in each house within these age ranges.

My thanks to Wendy Meredith for transcribing our WELLARD family. From this information we have been able to work out who was living here....this is only conjecture at the moment, although we believe it to be fairly accurate based on known family information.

Beside each entry in bold (information shown on the census) I have tried to place the people within the correct age ranges, their approximate ages are shown after their names in brackets ( ).

Ellalong & Quorrobolong (Police District of Wollombi)

Head of house William Welyard (sic) 

Males: 1 under 2 James TUTT (1)

2 aged 2 to <7 Francis ANDREWS (3) Alfred ANDREWS (2)

4 aged 21 to <45 William ANDREWS (33) Stephen WELLARD (29) William WELLARD (24) Lewis WELLARD (37)????? not sure about Lewis being here

2 aged 45 to <60 William WELLARD (63) and  unknown male

Females: 1 under 2 Jane ANDREWS (1)

2 aged 21 to <45 Sarah ANDREWS (26) Mary Ann TUTT (22)

1 aged 45 to <60 Elizabeth WELLARD (58)

Men: 2 married William WELLARD senior and William ANDREWS

7 single All the other males

Female: 2 married Elizabeth WELLARD and Sarah ANDREWS

2 single Jane ANDREWS and Mary Ann TUTT (widow)

Men: 3 born in colony James TUTT, Francis and Alfred ANDREWS

2 arrived free William WELLARD junior and Stephen WELLARD

1 other free (expired sentence) unknown male

3 ticket of leave holders William WELLARD snr, William ANDREWS and ???Lewis WELLARD???

Women: 1 born in colony Jane ANDREWS

3 arrived free Elizabeth WELLARD, Sarah ANDREWS and Mary Ann TUTT

13 Anglicans 

6 employed as stockmen/agricultural workers 7 others 

Wood house

1841 New South Wales, Australia, Census; [database on-line] Ancestry.com; Provo, UT, USA; New South Wales Government. 1841 Census: Abstract of returns. CGS 1282, Reels 2222-2223; State Records Authority of New South Wales