New South Wales Naturalization and Citizenship

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Online Records

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

Archive Resources Kit

• Archive Resources Kit

Naturalization Index, 1834-1903

Registers of naturalization, 1834-1903

Letters of denization, 1834-47

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

Contacting an Office

===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

Background

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