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Birth marriage & Death Records for the Australian States and Territories
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- South Australia (Genealogy SA) The South Australian Government Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry does not provide an online searchable index service. However, Genealogy SA does provide an equivalent service through their free Online Database Search
- Tasmania The Tasmanian Names Index on the Libraries Tasmania website provides indexes to BDM-related resources as well as divorces.
- Western Australia
- Northern Territory For indexes from 1856 to 1863 see New South Wales. Between 1863-1870 see South Australian records. No free online indexes are available.
- ACT
- New Zealand
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![]() Australian Cemeteries IndexThe Australian Cemeteries Index website is an extensive resource for family history researchers. It’s emphasis is to provide quality images of all inscriptions in each cemetery rather than just transcript lists. The ultimate goal is to photograph and index every headstone in Australia and to index every unmarked burial. |
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GENERAL
- Hastings Electoral Rolls 1869 – 1900
- Electoral Roll 1943: Electorate of Cowper; Subdivision of Port Macquarie
- Port Macquarie-Hastings Electoral Roll 2007
- Photographs from Port Macquarie and Surrounds
- Placenames of the Hastings
- Name Index to parish maps
- Local Family Files from Port Macquarie Library
- Port Macquarie War Memorial – WWI men and women
CONVICT RECORDS
- Runaways, Robbers & Incorrigible Rogues: certificates of freedom records for Port Macquarie
- Port Macquarie index to the Colonial Secretary’s Papers 1796 – 1825
- Sydney Gaol records for Port Macquarie convicts April 1821 – 1826
- Stephen Partridge, first Superintendent of Convicts 1821, original land grant document 30th May 1840
- A history of Old Port Macquarie Gaol to 1920
- Trial Bay Gaol
CEMETERIES
- Port Macquarie & Districts Cemeteries, Cremations & Memorials 1821 – 2010
- Kendall Cemetery Burial Records to 31st December 1996
- Kempsey Shire Council Cemetery Register
- Taree & District Burials: with all the towns and villages that make up the Manning Valley
- W.T. Howard’s Funeral Directors Taree
HISTORIES
- Bonny Hills: yesterday & today
- History of Byabarra
- Byabarra Public School Centenary 1895 – 1995
- Harvesting the Hastings: farming families 1821 – 2011
- The Royal Hotel Port Macquarie
- Early Shops of Port Macquarie 1830-1960
- Horton Street Port Macquarie in the 1950s
- Manning Valley & Camden Haven Publication Index
| | ![]() papers past nzAccess digitised New Zealand and Pacific newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. | British newspaper Archive |
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Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Birpai people, the traditional owners of the land in which we work and live, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We extend our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who choose to call the Port Macquarie Hastings home.
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- National Library of Australia – Indigenous family history service
- State Library of New South Wales – Aboriginal family history service
- New South Wales Aboriginal Affairs Family Records Service
- Finding Your Ancestors: researching Aboriginal family history in NSW (Royal Australian Historical Society)
- State Library of Queensland – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family history step-by-step guide.
- Centre for Indigenous Family History Studies
- Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) – a series of short videos on researching Aboriginal family history.
Port Macquarie-Hastings
Australia, States and Territories
- Place Names Australia
- NSW Geographical Names Board
- NSW Historical List of Place names
- Queensland Place Names
- WA Geographic Names
- A Compendium of Place Names of South Australia
- South Australia Property & Planning
- NT Place Names Register
- Tasmania Place Names