The Tamworth & District Family History Group began in 1983. Tamworth is situated in Northern N.S.W. approx. 440 km northwest of Sydney, Australia. Tamworth was established in the 1840s as a centre for Sheep, Cattle & Wheat, and achieved further expansion with the discovery of Gold in the Hanging Rock and Nundle areas.

Their holdings include:

• Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) Nominal Roll 1914 – 1918 WWI
• Assisted & Bounty Immigrants 1828 – 1842 (microfilm)
• Attorney General & Justice – Registers of Coroners Inquests
• Balmain Cemetery Register 26/01/1868 – 19/01/1881
• Bathurst Cemetery
• Colonial Secretaries, Register of Convicts recommended for Conditional Pardons 1791 – 1856
• Colonial Secretaries, Abstracts of all Licences for Marriages granted to Free Person’s 1813 – 1827
• IGI Australia ( 7 fiche ), England ( 2196 fiche ), Germany ( 1264 fiche ), Ireland ( 66 fiche ), Netherlands ( 114 fiche ),
• New Zealand ( 3 fiche ), Scotland ( 581 fiche ), South Africa ( 8 fiche ), Wales ( 149 fiche )
• Immigration: Germans on Bounty Ships 1849 – 1852
• Immigration: Members of Family colonization, Loan Society 1854 – 1857
• Immigration: Wives & Families of Convicts on Bounty Ships 1849 – 1855
• Index NSW Colonial Purchase Registers 1862
• Index NSW Immigration Deposit 1853 – 1900
• Identities of Tamworth & District – Short Trees (3 generations) by Shirley Cridland
• Lyall Green Papers : 59 Chapters covering the growth of Tamworth & District (Unpublished) e.g. from the Aboriginals (Kamilaroi), Farming, Hotels, Mining, etc.
• Maitland Mercury (newspaper) 1858 – 1871 (microfilm)
• NSW Births, Deaths & Marriages
• Pioneer 1788 – 1888 ( cdrom )
• Federation 1889 – 1918 ( cdrom )
• Between the Wars 1919 – 1945 ( cdrom ) Deaths & Marriages only
• NSW Births, Deaths & Marriages Pre 1856 – 1905 ( fiche )
• NSW Convict Indents Index 1788 – 1842 ( fiche )
• NSW Convict Marriage Banns 1826 – 1841 ( fiche )
• NSW Medical Board: Minutes of Proceedings & Register 1838 – 1901
• N.T. Adelaide Register for Land Orders May. 1871 – Oct. 1873
• N.T. Gold Mining/Mineral Lands/Pastoral Leases & Pearling
• Northern Territory – Index to General Register of Births 1841 – 1895
• Northern Territory – Index to General Register of Marriages 1841 – 1896
• Northern Territory – Index to General Register of Deaths 1841 – 1896
• N.T. Land Applications Various
• >N.T. Land Orders/ Adelaide & London Registers 1870 Ballot
• N.T. Pastoral Lease Applications 1875 – 1899
• N.T. Schedule of Land Transactions 1895 – 1909
• N.T. Times & Gazette Name Index 1875, 1876, 1877 & 1882
• Pharmacy Board of NSW: Register of Chemists & Druggists 1876 – 1920
  Police, Inspector General: Register of Police 1862 -1904
• Port Darwin, N.T. Shipping 1887, 1889, 1898 & 1900
• Port Macquarie General Cemetery 1868 – 1985
• Pre 1900 Pioneer Register – Newcastle & Lower Hunter Region
• Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Index to Convict Indents 1837 – 1842
• Public Service Lists 1858 – 1870
• Queensland – Index Baptisms 1829 – 1856
  Queensland – Births 1850 – 1899
• Queensland – Brisbane Death Index 1856 – 1894
• Queensland – Country Death Index 1856 – 1894
• Queensland – Death Index 1895 – 1899
• Queensland – Brisbane Marriage Index 1856 – 1893
• Queensland – Country Marriage Index 1856 – 1893
• Queensland – Marriage Index 1894 – 1899
• Registers of Convict Applications to Marry 1826 – 1851
  Rookwood Cemetery Bicentenary Project Anglican Index ( 3 fiche )
• Rookwood Cemetery Bicentenary Project – All – Index ( 2 fiche )
• Sandgate Cemetery ( Newcastle NSW ) Index to Burials 1881 – 1985
  Sand’s Sydney & NSW Directory 1858 – 1884
• South Australian Births (1842 – 1906), Deaths (1842 – 1905) & Marriages (1842 – 1906)
• St. Alban’s District Church of England – Births (1818 – 1934); Marriages (1831 – 1837)
• St. Andrew’s Tamworth Presbyterian Marriages 1871 –
• St. John’s (Tam) Church of England – Burials & Marriages (1912 – 1972); Births (1923 – 1933); Baptisms (1908 – 1982)
• St. Paul’s (Tam) Church of England – Marriages (1849 – 1868); Births, Deaths & Marriages (1850 – 1864)
• Supreme Court of NSW – Probate Index 1800 – 1984
• Supreme Court : Rolls of Barristers & Solicitors 1824 – 1876
• Tamworth Examiner – 1859 – 1863

All interested people are invited to research their family history using Tamworth & District Family History Group’s extensive collection of Genealogical Resources; coverage includes local, regional records & national records. Experience members are available to give assistance and advice.

Research Enquiries can be directed to Shirley Cridland, PO Box1188, TAMWORTH NSW 2340 or by email: research@tamworthfamilyhistory.org

Please note a Research fee of $15.00 applies.