Records Held
Listed below are some of the records available for use at our library. In
addition, we have numerous books on the local district and an extensive index
card system as well as BDM indexes and cemetery listings, the IGI, Probate
indexes and a large collection of family trees, as well as journals and
Members' Research Directories from other Family History Societies.
Cemeteries
· Memorial inscriptions from cemeteries
in the Greater Lithgow Council area and surrounding districts. For a list of
those for sale see Publications
Lithgow
· Gravediggers Book 1916-c1984
· St. Paul's Anglican Church records
· Baptisms 1879-1967
· Burials 1879-1984
· Marriages 1879-1963
· St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
Records
· Baptisms 1876-1914
· Parish Antonio - Landholders circa
1850
· Infectious Diseases Register 1898 -
1953
· Purchasers of land in Lithgow from
Rutherford, Sandford & Hoskins 1882 - 1948.
Compiled by Ian Rufus
Bowenfels
- Presbyterian (Rev Colin
Stewart)
- Baptisms &
Marriages 1838-1890
Hartley
· Hartley/Vale of Clwydd Court House
Bench Books & index to Committals 1837 - 1842
· Hartley/Vale of Clwydd Court House
indexes to cases against Free Persons 1836 -1874.
· Hartley District Court Register -
extracts 1859 - 1898
· District Electoral Rolls
· 1869-1870
· 1873-1874
· Donors to Irish Scotch Relief Fund
1847
· Index to Village
Land Sales 1840
· District Publicans Licences circa
1820-1900
· St. John's Church
of England
records
· Baptisms 1857-1905
· Marriages 1857-1909
· St Bernard's Roman Catholic Church Records
· Baptisms 1843 - 1880
· Marriages 1844-1856
· Deaths 1849-1869
· Burials 1845-1867
· District Courthouse: Various Birth, Death and
Marriage Certificates
Wallerawang
- St
John's Church
of England
Records
- Baptisms 1884-1918
- Burials 1893-1982
Portland
- Roman
Catholic Church Records
- Baptisms 1891-1898;
Dec 1947 - Dec 1948
- Marriages 1892
-1917; 1928 - 1937
- Burials 1933 - 1960
- St Stephen's Anglican
Church Records
Marrangaroo
· School Register of Admissions 1912 - 1982
Rydal
· School Register of Admissions 1886-1968
& Visitors' Book 1869 - 1927
Tarana
· School Register of Admissions 1924 - 1970
Sunny Corner
· Births, Marriages & Burials 1882-1905
(compiled by Vicki Powys)
Oberon
- Roman Catholic Church
Records
- Baptisms 1881-1895
- Marriages 1873-1934
Bathurst
- Presbyterian Church
Records
- Marriages 1832-1850
- Christenings
1832-1850
- Burials 1833 - 1850
- Lithgow/Hartley district
extracts from Bathurst Catholic Baptism register 1839 - 1842 (this
register precedes the Hartley Catholic register, which precedes the
Lithgow Catholic register)
Kelso
- Holy
Trinity Church
of England
- Lithgow/Hartley
district extracts
- Baptisms,
Marriages & Burials 1826 - 1867.
- List of people
buried in Pioneer Graves section.
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Updated 20 may 2004