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Tasmania Civil Registration

How to Find the Records

• National Library of Australia Website: Australian birth, death and marriage records: Tasmania
• FamilySearch Webinar: Australia BDM Civil Registration Index online tutorial. Indexes for some states have been added since this class was recorded: Australian Capital Territory, South Australia, Tasmania,

Online Records

• 1803-1933 Tasmania Names Index: Births Libraries Tasmania, index and images. Includes some baptisms collected by the Registrar General (1900-1933 baptisms only).
• 1803-1933 Australia Tasmania Civil Registration 1803-1933 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1803-1933 Tasmania Births 1803-1933 - at Findmypast - index ($); Also at: MyHeritage ($)
• 1803-1899 Tasmania Marriages 1803-1899 - at Findmypast, Index ($)
• 1803-1933 Tasmania Deaths 1803-1933 - at Findmypast Index ($)
• 1803-1939 Tasmania Names Index:Deaths (1803-1939) Libraries Tasmania, index and images.
• 1804-1899 Tasmania Names Index: Marriages Libraries Tasmania, index and images.
• 1828-1975 Tasmania Names Index: Tasmania inquest records Libraries Tasmania, index and images.
• 1835-1840 Births, Deaths and Marriages Index 1835 - 1840, listed in the newspaper Cornwall Chronicle, index.
• 1839-1938 Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration (District Registers), 1839-1938 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1852-1944 Tasmania Names Index: Marriage certificate counterfoils (1852-1944) Libraries Tasmania, index and images.
• 1854-1930 Tasmania, Australia, Index to Birth Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1930 - at Ancestry, Index ($)
• 1854-1962 Tasmania, Australia, Index to Marriage Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1962 - at Ancestry, Index ($)
• 1854-1920 Tasmania, Australia, Index to Death Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1930 - at Ancestry Index ($)
• 1861-1950 Tasmania Names Index: Divorces (1861-1950) Libraries Tasmania, index and images. Petitions for divorce in the Tasmanian Supreme Court.
• 1861-1920 Australia, Tasmania, Documents in cases of divorce, 1861-1920 at FamilySearch, index and images.
• 1899-1912 Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration of Births, 1899-1912 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images

New South Wales Online Records, Including Tasmania Prior to 1825

• New South Wales Birth, Death, and Marriage Index
• 1787-1986 - Australia, New South Wales Death Index at MyHeritage - index only ($)
• 1788-1945 - New South Wales Deaths at Findmypast; index only ($)
• 1788-1914 - New South Wales Births at Findmypast; index only ($); Also at MyHeritage ($)
• 1788-1856 - New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers at Ancestry - index & images ($)
• 1788-1945 - New South Wales Marriages at Findmypast; index only ($)
• 1788-1966 - Australia, New South Wales Marriage Index at MyHeritage - index only ($)
• 1813–1835,1894 - New South Wales, Australia, Butts of Marriage Licenses at Ancestry - index & images ($)
• 1825-1851 - New South Wales Registers Of Convict Applications To Marry at Findmypast - index & images ($); Also at Ancestry ($)

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• Australia, Birth, Marriage, and Death Exchange, index
• 1776-1980 Australia Miscellaneous Genealogical Records at FamilySearch; index & images
• 1787-1985 Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985, index - at Ancestry ($)
• 1788-1922 Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922, index - at Ancestry ($)
• 1788-1950 Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950, index - at Ancestry ($)
• 1788-1935 Australia, Marriages, 1788-1935, index - at Findmypast ($)
• 1792-1981 Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981, index, incomplete. How to Use this Collection
• 1792-1981 Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981, index - at Ancestry ($). Also at Findmypast ($). Also at My Heritage ($)
• 1810-1980 Australia Marriages, 1810-1980, index, incomplete. How to Use this Collection
• 1810-1980 Australia, Marriages, 1810-1980, index - at MyHeritage ($)
• 1816-1980 Australia Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980, index. How to Use this Collection
• 1816-1980 Australia Deaths & Burials, 1816-1980, index - at Findmypast ($). Also at My Heritage ($)
• 1851-1997 Australia Newspaper Vital Notices, 1851-1997 - at Ancestry, ($), index, incomplete.
• 1860-2019 Australia Death Notices, 1860-2019, ($), index

British Armed Forces

• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms at Findmypast - index & images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages at Findmypast - index & images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast - index & images ($)

Contacting an Office

• Applying for a certificate online
  

Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
15 Murray Street
G.P.O. Box 198
Hobart, Tasmania 7001
Australia
(011) (61) (2) 30-3793

New South Wales Archive Resources Kit, Including Tasmania Prior to 1825

• Archive Resources Kit

Abstracts of all licences for marriages granted to free persons, 1813-27

Registers, 1787-1856

Reports of inquests, 1796-1828

• Community Access Points A list of libraries and archives which hold microcopies of the Archive Resource Kit records

"The ARK is held by 40 community access points across NSW. The majority of access points are libraries. The ARK consists of microfilm copies of our most popular and heavily used colonial records. Included are records relating to convict arrivals, assisted immigrants, births, deaths and marriages, publicans' licences, electoral rolls, naturalisation, returns of the colony ('Blue Books'), land grants, and the wide range of functions of the Colonial Secretary (1788-1825). You may find that the ARK (or parts of it) are held at a library near you."

History

Registration of births, marriages and deaths was introduced in December 1838. Before that date, information can be traced through church records.

Before 1838, see New South Wales as Tasmania was part of New South Wales before its creation as a state.

Rights of Privacy

Rights of privacy laws limit access to records recent enough to contain information about living persons. You can access any of the following records:

• births that happened over 100 years ago
• deaths that happened over 30 years ago
• marriages that happened over 75 years ago

For records created since the cut-off dates, only these people have access to a record:

• the person named on the birth, marriage or change of name record
• an immediate family member named on the death certificate, such as a spouse, parent or child
• a parent, grandparent or guardian of a child over 18 years old who wishes to apply for a birth certificate and who has given written permission.

Information Recorded in the Records

When civil registration first began, there was no common standard of recording information, so the information listed may vary from state to state. Later records generally give more complete information than earlier ones.

Birth records

• Surname and forenames of child
• Date and place of birth of child
• Sex of the child
• Multiple births
• Surname and forenames of father
• Age, birthplace, and occupation or rank of father
• Maiden surname and forenames of mother
• Place and year of marriage of parents
• Age and birthplace of mother
• Number and sex of previous issue, if deceased
• Name, relationship, description, and residence of informant

Marriage records

• Surname and forenames of parties
• Occupations and places of residence of parties
• Ages and places of birth of parties
• Marital status prior to the marriage
• Date and place of marriage
• Name of celebrant and denomination
• Names of witnesses
• Surnames and forenames of parents

Death records

• Surname and forenames of deceased
• Date and place of death
• Occupation, age, and sex of deceased
• Place of birth and place and date of marriage of deceased
• Length of residence in Australia and in what colonies, states, and territories
• Name of spouse and names and ages of living children of deceased
• Number and sex of issue, if deceased
• Name and occupation of father
• Maiden surname of mother
• Cause of death and duration of last illness
• Name of medical practitioner
• Date and place of burial
• Religion and name of minister or witness
• Names of undertaker and informant
• Residence and relationship or description of informant
• Date and place of civil registration
  

For Further Reading

FamilySearch Library

Additional sources are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

• Australia, Tasmania - Civil registration
• Australia, Tasmania - Civil registration - Indexes

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