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Online Records

• 1787-1976 - New South Wales, Australia, Miscellaneous Records at Ancestry; images only ($)
• 1834-1903 - Naturalization Index 1834-1903 at NSW Archives, index. Name search for non-British subjects wishing to own land or vote in NSW. This index contains over 5500 entries and was compiled from one record series.
• 1849-1904 - Naturalization papers, 1849-1904, New South Wales. Colonial Secretary at FamilySearch, index.
• 1849-1903 - New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Naturalization at Ancestry; index & images ($)
• 1901-- - Record Search National Archives'

• type in the surname
• type in the given name
• in ‘Category of records’, select ‘Immigration and naturalisation records’

Archives

National Archives of Australia

• Citizenship Records National Archives of Australia

What's included in citizenship records? Citizenship records include information such as:

• date of arrival in Australia
• ship or flight travelled on
• town and country of birth
• names of other family members
• education
• profession
• address in Australia at the time of naturalisation
  

"The National Archives holds Commonwealth naturalisation and citizenship records from 1904 onwards. We also have naturalisation records for the Colony of Victoria from 1848 to 1903 and the Province of South Australia before 1904. We hold two main types of citizenship records:

• naturalisation certificates (up to 1962)
• naturalisation case files
  

Case files give more detail than certificates. They include:

• the citizenship application
• the oath of allegiance
• other documents
  

To find citizenship records:

• use the NameSearch' tab in RecordSearch
• type in the surname
• type in the given name
• in ‘Category of records’, select ‘Immigration and naturalisation records’

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NSW Government State Records and Archives
161 O'Connell Street
Kingswood NSW 2747
Australia
Telephone: (02) 9673 1788

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Background

Immigrants from the British Isles are automatically citizens and do not require naturalization.