New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1863 of Harriett Elizabeth Crossingham
CRASSINGHAM HARRIET E | 8748/1863 | RICHARD | HARIET M | MANNING RIVER
NSW historical birth index row (Name | Registration no | Father | Mother | District), read in Chrome 2026-09-07. Already on the person; added to the birth event, which had no citation of its own. Parents RICHARD and HARIET M - the index's spelling of Harriett Maria - and the family's CRASSINGHAM spelling of the 1860s. Twenty-one at her marriage in 1884.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1854 of Andrew Bartley Barber
BARBER ANDREW B | 1936/1854 V18541936 40 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | NP
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. A second register copy is indexed as 1938/1854 V18541938 40, same parents and district.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1856 of Emma Barber
BARBER EMMA | 4565/1856 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | GOSFORD
NSW BDM birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1859 of Charles Barber
BARBER CHARLES | 14027/1859 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | WOLLONGONG
NSW BDM birth index. This row proves the family was at Wollongong in 1859, which is what makes his sister Harriett Rebecca's unregistered 1860 Wollongong birth credible.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1863 of Matilda Barber
BARBER MATILDA | 6284/1863 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | GOSFORD
NSW BDM birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 25 JUL 1865 of George Henry Barber
BARBER GEORGE H | 10285/1865 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | MACLEAY RIVER
NSW BDM birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1868 of Priscilla Jane Barber
BARBER PRISCILLA J | 11224/1868 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | MACLEAY RIVER
NSW BDM birth index. The Australian Cemeteries Index names 'David Henry' and 'Priscilla Jean' as the parents of Olive May Barden and Harold Robert Nelson at Kempsey, which is this couple.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1871 of Arthur John Barber
BARBER ARTHUR J | 12210/1871 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | MACLEAY RIVER
NSW BDM birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1866 of Lydia Amelia Saville
SAVILLE LYDIA A | 9847/1866 | BENJAMIN | AMELIA | MANNING RIVER
NSW birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. 'LYDIA A' expanded to Lydia Amelia after the Find a Grave children panel and her own headstone. Her age at death, 77 in March 1944, puts her birth in 1866 and so agrees with this row.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1873 of Theresa Mary Barber
BARBER THERESA MARY | 12700/1873 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | MACLEAY RIVER
NSW BDM birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1871 of Edwin Charles Saville
SAVILLE EDWIN CHARLES | 11921/1871 | BENJAMIN | AMELIA | MANNING RIVER
NSW birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. Given in full by the index. His age at death, 87 in October 1958, puts his birth in 1871 and agrees with this row.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1876 of Clara Elizabeth Barber
BARBER CLARA ELIZABETH | 13767/1876 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | MACLEAY RIVER
NSW BDM birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. Clara was the one child of the ten that proposal #2217 had to carry on a compiled profile alone, because that Chrome search window stopped at 1875. With this row every one of Joseph and Charlotte's ten children rests on a civil registration naming both parents.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1878 of Frederick Saville
SAVILLE FREDERICK | 16002/1878 | BENJAMIN | AMELIA | MANNING RIVER
NSW birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. Given in full by the index; Find a Grave agrees on 1878-1965. His headstone's age at death, 85 in May 1965, would imply 1879 or 1880 — a two-year discrepancy of the ordinary monumental kind, and the registration is preferred.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1881 of Clara Adelaide Saville
SAVILLE CLARA ADELAIDE | 17663/1881 | BENJAMIN | AMELIA | WINGHAM
NSW birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. Given in full by the index. Find a Grave dates her 1880-1969 and her headstone's age, 89 in August 1969, also implies 1880; the registration year 1881 is preferred over both.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 1882 of Lucy A Sullivan
SULLIVAN LUCY A | 4753/1882 | MICHAEL | JULIA | BURWOOD
NSW birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. Cited on the birth event; the index gives her second given name as an initial only and the historical index publishes the registration year, never a day.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 1921 of Josiah Joseph Crossingham
CROSSINGHAM JOSEPH | 15997/1921 | (82 YEARS REDFERN) | CHARLOTTE | REDFERN
NSW historical death index row read in Chrome 2026-09-07. The father column carries an age and place rather than a parent's name, which the index does where the parents were not recorded, and the second column reads CHARLOTTE - his wife's name, not his mother's, so this row does not itself carry the parent link (the 1840 birth row does). Age 82 in 1921 gives a birth about 1839, and WikiTree Crossingham-18 gives 6 November 1921 at Waterloo, the parish next to Redfern. Cited at quality 2 because of the anomalous columns.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 1919 of Oliver Crossingham
CROSSINGHAM OLIVER | 21061/1919 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | WINGHAM
NSW historical death index row read in Chrome 2026-09-07; the same parents as his birth registration.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 1913 of Walter Crossingham
CROSSINGHAM WALTER | 5526/1913 | JOSEPH | CHARLOTTE | DRUMMOYNE
NSW historical death index row read in Chrome 2026-09-07; the same parents as his birth registration, and in the same part of Sydney where his father died eight years later.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 3 NOV 1927 of Julia Collins
SULLIVAN JULIA | 19092/1927 | COLLINS 82 YEARS | O'BRIEN | CHATSWOOD
NSW death index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. The father's column carries the surname COLLINS with the age 82 run in after it, and the mother's column the surname O'BRIEN. Willoughby lies in the Chatswood registration district.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 12 AUG 1917 of Michael Sullivan
SULLIVAN MICHAEL | 11429/1917 | PETER | MARY | BURWOOD
NSW death index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. Enfield lies in the Burwood registration district. Cited on the death event; the same row is on the person as the evidence for his parents Peter and Mary.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 7 AUG 1913 of Mary Ann Debenham
CHAPMAN MARY A | 14302/1913 | 9O YRS KEMPSEY | KEMPSEY
NSW BDM death index, columns Name | Registration Number | Father's Given Name(s) | Mother's Given Name(s) | District. Quoted as the index renders it, including '9O' with a letter O for 90. WHAT THIS ROW DOES NOT DO: it names no parents. On pre-1914 rows this index prints the age in the father's column and leaves the mother's empty, which is what has happened here, so the absence of John and Catherine is a property of the layout and not evidence about her parentage - her child link stays on the Chevington christening and the compiled profile until a certificate is bought. What it does do: it fixes her death registration, confirms the year and the Kempsey district, and gives an age of 90 in 1913 that agrees with the register birth of 12 August 1823.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Baptised” 12 JAN 1834 of Charlotte Emma Avery
AVERY CHARLOTTE E | 155/1834 V1834155 18 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | CA
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. Read in Chrome by the orchestrator this pass. The BDM site warns that entries in this pre-1856 series may be baptisms or burials rather than births; a second 1833 entry for the same child with the same parents in the same register makes it near-certain that this 1834 one is the baptism. The DAY, 12 January 1834, and the church, St Philip's Sydney, come from the compiled family history, not from the index.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 3 SEP 1840 of Mary Elizabeth Field
FIELD MARY E | 258/1840 V1840258 54 | JOHN | SARAH | IB
NSW historical birth index row (Name | Registration no | Father | Mother | Register), read in Chrome 2026-09-07. A pre-civil-registration church-register entry, register code IB. THE PARENTS ARE THE DISCRIMINATOR: John and Sarah, which is the same pair the death registration of her sister Harriett Maria gives (CROSSINGHAM HARRIET M | 11549/1908 | JOHN | SARAH | TAREE). Her obituary independently gives the birth as 3 September 1840 at the Cowpastures, Camden district, and names her father as the late John Field - a year, a district and a name all agreeing with this row.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 1923 of Mary Elizabeth Field
CHAPMAN MARY E | 18890/1923 | JOHN | JANE | TAREE
NSW historical death index row (Name | Registration no | Father | Mother | District), read in Chrome 2026-09-08. It fixes the death to 1923, replacing the BEFORE 5 JANUARY 1924 taken from the date of her obituary in The Methodist. Taree is the district covering the lower Manning, where she had lived since her father settled on Oxley Island. THE PARENTS ARE THE IDENTIFICATION AND ALSO A TRAP. The column reads JOHN and JANE: John Field, and Sarah JANE Watson entered under her second name. Every other record of this family gives the mother as Sarah - her Brede baptism of 12 January 1815, the 1838 James Pattison bounty list, her daughter Harriett Maria's death registration (11549/1908, JOHN | SARAH) and Mary Elizabeth's own birth registration (258/1840 V1840258 54, JOHN | SARAH). So a search of this sibling set filtered on a mother named SARAH will silently miss rows, and this one was in fact missed on a first pass that used the parent filter; it surfaced only when the filter was dropped. Distinguished from the other Mary Chapmans who died in these years, none of whom fits: Mary C 11638/1924 (David M x Mary E, Rockdale), Mary F 10051/1922 (George x Mary, Redfern), Mary A 6205/1923 (Kurri Kurri), Mary E 15825/1923 (Thomas x Martha S, Waverley) and Mary A 7062/1924 (Balmain South).
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 15 NOV 1960 of Edith May Sullivan
SULLIVAN EDITH MAY | 31741/1960 | MICHAEL | JULIA | BURWOOD
NSW death index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. The complete result of a search of the index for surname SULLIVAN, father MICHAEL, mother JULIA, 1917-1996 was five rows; this is the one that matches an Edith. Enfield lies in the Burwood district. The historical index publishes the registration year only, never a day — the day comes from the Ryerson row cited beside it.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 1963 of Ellen May Sullivan
SULLIVAN ELLEN MAY | 16514/1963 | MICHAEL | JULIA | PARRAMATTA
NSW death index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. One of the five rows returned by a complete search for surname SULLIVAN, father MICHAEL, mother JULIA, 1917-1996, and the only one that matches an Ellen. Parents match; the district does not match the family's suburbs, which is why only the year is taken.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 22 MAR 1823 of William Barber
WILLIAM | 6125/1823 V18236125 1B | JOHN | JANE | CA ; WILLIAM | 6195/1823 V18236195 1B | JOHN | JANE | CF
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | register. Two register copies of one entry, parents JOHN and JANE, in registers CA and CF — CF being the register that also holds his parents' 1821 marriage at Liverpool St Luke (2726/1821 V18212726 3B). The index gives the YEAR only, so the day 22 March 1823 still comes from the compiled page, and the rival 29 March from WikiTree; but the child and the parentage are now on a record.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 20 MAY 1825 of Lucy Barber
LUCY | 7074/1825 V18257074 1B | JOHN | JANE | CF
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Register CF, the Liverpool register that also holds her parents' marriage — which settles the ambiguity in the compiled page, that said Parramatta but named the register as St Luke's Liverpool. The register is Liverpool's. Note also that she is indexed as LUCY: that is her name on a record, and Louisa remains the aka.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 29 FEB 1828 of Andrew Barber
ANDREW | 53/1828 V182853 12 | JOHN | JANE | CB ; ANDREW | 8806/1828 V18288806 1C | JOHN | JANE | CJ ; ANDREW | 8606/1828 V18288606 1C | JOHN | JANE | CB
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Three register copies, all with parents JOHN and JANE. Register CB is the Parramatta register that also holds his brother Joseph's 1821 entry, which is consistent with the compiled page's baptism at St John's Parramatta on 15 June 1828.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 7 APR 1908 of Andrew Barber
BARBER ANDREW | 6016/1908 | JOHN | JANE | MACLEAN
NSW BDM death index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. This is the registration behind the death date already on the event, which came from a compiled account of the certificate. The district is Maclean on the Clarence River. Note what the index does and does not say: it carries the parents' GIVEN names only, so it confirms John and Jane and neither confirms nor refutes the compiled claim that the certificate itself gives the mother's maiden name as "Jane Burge" — which is why no Burge name row has been proposed for her.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” OCT 1840 of Mary Ann Barber
MARY A | 1559/1840 V18401559 25 | JOHN | JANE | MC
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Parents JOHN and JANE, Goulburn-district register MC. The last of Jane Wyer's children by John Barber, born five months before his death and registered in the same register that recorded it.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Married” 1884 of Thomas R. Worth & Harriett Elizabeth Crossingham
3318/1884 | WORTH | THOMAS R | CROSSINGHAM | HARRIET E | ST LEONARDS
NSW historical marriage index row (Registration no | Groom surname | Groom given | Bride surname | Bride given | District), read in Chrome 2026-09-08. THE IDENTIFICATION: it is the only Worth-Crossingham marriage in the index between 1876 and 1905, the bride's name and initial match Harriett Elizabeth Crossingham exactly, and she was twenty-one in 1884. Her mother's 1910 In Memoriam in the Sydney Morning Herald was 'Inserted by her loving daughter Harriett Worth', which is the independent confirmation of the married surname. The St Leonards district is not a difficulty: her mother's father John Field had left the Manning River for Mount Street, St Leonards, where he died in 1887.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 14 DEC 1911 of Charles Avery
AVERY CHARLES | 16667/1911 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | ULMARRA
NSW BDM death index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. THIS IS THE PARENT LINK for the one child of this couple the birth index cannot reach, and it lands exactly where the compiled page says he died — Ulmarra on the Clarence. He is the eldest of the family and had been, through two of my proposals, the weakest person in either sibling set: absent from a complete birth sweep on these parents for 1829-1856 for no reason I could explain, given that he was baptised at St John's Parramatta in September 1830 in the register that holds his siblings' entries. He is now documented at the death end on a registration naming both parents.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 6 MAR 1832 of Mary Ann Avery
MARY A | 243/1832 V1832243 17 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | CA
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | register. Register CA is the same register that holds her sister Charlotte Emma's two entries (165/1833 and 155/1834), which is the St Philip's Sydney register named by the compiled account of both baptisms. The index gives the year only, so the day 6 March 1832 still rests on the compiled page.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 28 MAY 1878 of Mary Ann Avery
MCMAHON MARY A | 1024/1878 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | SYDNEY
NSW BDM death index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. Parents JOHN and CHARLOTTE, district Sydney — the parent link on a registration, and the year and place the compiled account gives ("died 28 May 1878 Harrington Place, Sydney"). She is indexed under her married name because she married John Henry McMahon at Holy Trinity, Sydney, in 1848, which is why a surname sweep on AVERY could not reach her: her absence from that sweep was a search artefact, not a gap in the record. With this row, nine of the eleven children of John Abel Avery and Charlotte are documented on a registration naming their parents.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 12 JAN 1837 of John Avery
JOHN | 1119/1837 V18371119 21 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | MC
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. He is the only one of the eleven children indexed in register MC, the Goulburn-district register — which corroborates the compiled page's Goulburn birth and Sutton Forest baptism against every other sibling's Sydney or Clarence River entry, and is the kind of agreement a compiler could not have manufactured from the index alone. NOTE for the moderator: the Australian Cemeteries Index has a "John (Jack) Avery, d. 28 Aug 1933, 67, Kempsey West, son of Robert and Rosetta (Helps)" — that is this man's NEPHEW, and the two must not be conflated.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 10 JUL 1886 of John Avery
AVERY JOHN | 11002/1886 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE E | KEMPSEY
NSW BDM death index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Parents JOHN and CHARLOTTE E, district Kempsey — the parent link on a registration, and the year and district the compiled page gives. Two things follow. It separates him cleanly from his nephew, the "John (Jack) Avery, d. 28 Aug 1933, 67, Kempsey West, son of Robert and Rosetta (Helps)" in the Australian Cemeteries Index, with whom he must not be conflated. And it is the ONE row in six that gives his mother a middle initial E — see the correcting citation on her own record in this proposal.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 28 JUL 1839 of Robert Henry Avery
ROBERT H | 192/1839 V1839192 23A | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | CA
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Back in register CA, St Philip's Sydney, two years after his brother John's Goulburn entry — the family's movements are legible in the register codes alone.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 28 APR 1893 of Robert Henry Avery
AVERY ROBERT H | 7570/1893 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | KEMPSEY
NSW BDM death index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Parents JOHN and CHARLOTTE, district Kempsey — the parent link on a registration, matching the year the compiled page gives. His burial is not in the Australian Cemeteries Index at either Kempsey cemetery, though his parents and his brother Richard William are, so this row is the only record of his death read this session.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 16 NOV 1910 of William Avery
AVERY WILLIAM | 15512/1910 | WILLIAM | STROUD
RECORDED AS AN EXCLUDED CANDIDATE, not as evidence — quality 0 deliberately. NSW BDM death index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; the mother column is empty and the father is given as WILLIAM. The year is right and the district is right — Stroud adjoins Tuncurry, where the compiled page has him buried on 17 November 1910, and Stroud is where he is said to have married Margaretta Gill in 1863. But the father should be JOHN, and it is not, so the row is not accepted for him. The other two rows from the same 1908-1912 search are further off: 16404/1912 JOSEPH × ESTHER at Liverpool, and 14002/1911 WILLIAM × ANN at Camperdown. THE HYPOTHESIS WORTH TESTING, and it is only that: a man who married at Stroud in 1863 could easily have a son William, and a son William dying at Stroud in 1910 would be indexed with father WILLIAM — in which case this row is our William's SON, the compiled account has conflated father and son, and that would also explain why our William alone of the eleven children is missing from a parent-filtered death sweep that returns five of his brothers. No link is proposed on that speculation. His 1863 marriage at Stroud is in the civil register and would name his parents outright.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 1943 of Harriett Elizabeth Crossingham
WORTH HARRIETT ELIZA | 29395/1943 | RICHARD JOHN | HARRIETT | NORTH SYDNEY
NSW historical death index row (Name | Registration no | Father | Mother | District), read in Chrome 2026-09-08. FOUND ONLY UNDER THE DOUBLE-T SPELLING: a search for WORTH HARRIET, 1936-1950, returned No Matching Records, and the same window under HARRIETT returned this. The index prefix does not fold the two forms, which is worth remembering for every Harriet in this tree. THE IDENTIFICATION: mother HARRIETT, which is her mother Harriett Maria Field; married surname Worth, from her 1884 marriage to Thomas R Worth (3318/1884, St Leonards); North Sydney district, next to the St Leonards district she married in; and the year 1943, which matches the Australian Cemeteries Index interment of Harriett Elizabeth Worth at Macquarie Park on 15 October 1943 (inscription 3516877). That entry had no parents, no spouse and no registration number, so it could not identify her on its own; this row does. ONE DISCREPANCY, LEFT STANDING: the father is given as RICHARD JOHN. Richard Crossingham #82897 carries no middle name in anything read for him - his Icklesham baptism of 9 February 1834, the brass plaque on his wife's Moorland headstone, and his own death registration 9005/1917 all give plain Richard. So 'John' is the 1943 informant's addition, either an error or a middle name no other record kept. Nothing has been changed on Richard. The given-name form 'Harriett Eliza' is added as a name variant.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 1852 of Agnes Kelly
BARBER AGNES | 1490/1852 V18521490 38B | AGE 32 | OM
NSW BDM early church-register death index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District, with the AGE standing in the father's column as this index does before 1856 — a blank mother column here is layout, not evidence. "OM" is the register code as printed and is not interpreted. This is the registration behind a death that stood on a compiled family history alone, and it confirms both of the facts that history gave: the year 1852 and the age 32, which is what puts her birth about 1820. She was Joseph Rambler Barber's first wife; he remarried on 30 June 1853, eight months later.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Married” 3 FEB 1845 of Joseph Rambler Barber & Agnes Kelly
383/1845 V1845383 30B | BARBER | JOSEPH | KELLY | AGNES | MC
NSW BDM early church-register marriage index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Registration number | Groom surname | Groom given | Bride surname | Bride given | register. It is the only Barber-Kelly marriage in the index for 1843-1847. Register MC is the Goulburn-district register, the same one that holds Joseph's father's death (1283/1841 V18411283 25B) and the births of his siblings Henry, John and Mary Ann — so the family was in that register at that date, which is what identifies this row as our Joseph rather than a namesake. The index gives the year only; the day 3 February and the church, St Saviour's, come from the compiled account.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 17 FEB 1919 of Eliza Florence Avery
CLARKE ELIZA | 4134/1919 | JOHN | ELIZA | AUBURN
RECORDED AS AN EXCLUDED CANDIDATE, not as evidence — quality 0 deliberately. NSW BDM death index, columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. A parent-filtered search on CLARKE with father JOHN and mother CHARLOTTE, 1917-1921, returned nothing at all; this is the only row with a John from the same search run without the mother filter. Two things are wrong with it. The MOTHER is indexed ELIZA, where Eliza Florence Avery's mother was Charlotte — and a mother's given name is the discriminator this index exists to provide, so a mismatch there is not a spelling quibble. The DISTRICT is Auburn, where the compiled account has her dying at Drummoyne; the two are about ten kilometres apart in western Sydney, which is survivable on its own but not alongside the first problem. The father JOHN matching is worth little: her husband was John Clarke and her father was John Abel Avery, so a John in the father column is what you would expect from either the right woman or a coincidence. She stays on the compiled page alone. What would settle it: her 1864 marriage on the Myall River, which after 1856 is in the civil register and would name her parents.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 26 NOV 1845 of Sarah Avery
SARAH | 876/1846 V1846876 21 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | CY ; SARAH | 876/1846 V1846876 31A | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | NL
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | register. Two copies of one entry — same registration number, different register references, 21 and 31A. She is indexed in 1846 for a birth stated as 26 November 1845, which is exactly what a baptism on 14 March 1846 produces; the index gives the year only, so the day still rests on the compiled page. Her presence in the index, when the two Clarence River children are absent, is what makes their absence read as a district gap rather than a family doubt.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 23 NOV 1847 of George Henry Avery
GEORGE H | 3002/1847 V18473002 33 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | NI
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Register NI, shared with his sister Matilda Ann's 1850 entry — the two children born on the Clarence in the late 1840s, by which date the district was keeping returns, unlike 1841 and 1843.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 16 SEP 1928 of George Henry Avery
AVERY GEORGE H | 15148/1928 | JOHN A | CHARLOTTE | KEMPSEY
NSW BDM death index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Parents JOHN A and CHARLOTTE, district Kempsey. The initial A is the discriminator — John ABEL Avery, and not one of the several other John Averys in the colony. Until now his death rested on the compiled page plus his two sons' austcem rows, which showed only that a George Henry Avery of the district had children by two wives; this is his own registration.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 23 MAR 1850 of Matilda Ann Avery
MATILDA A | 2472/1850 V18502472 35 | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | NI
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Register NI, the same as her brother George Henry's 1847 entry, which is the Clarence River register.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Died” 1872 of Matilda Ann Avery
ROBINSON MATILDA | 1405/1872 | JOHN A | CHARLOTTE | SYDNEY
NSW BDM death index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator; columns Name | Registration number | Father | Mother | District. THIS IS THE PARENT LINK, and the strongest of the four registrations in this proposal. After 1856 the civil register names both parents, and the father here is "JOHN A" — that initial is the discriminator, because it is John ABEL Avery and not one of the several other John Averys in the colony, and it is the same form the index uses on her sister Charlotte Emma's death row (9863/1908, JOHN A | CHARLOTTE). She is therefore documented at both ends of her life: birth 2472/1850 and death 1405/1872, both naming these parents. The registration confirms the compiled account's year, place and married surname together.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage index · NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
For “Born” 22 OCT 1852 of Richard William Avery
RICHARD | 706/1852 V1852706 38A | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | NL ; RICHARD | 708/1852 V1852708 38A | JOHN | CHARLOTTE | NL
NSW BDM early church-register birth index, read in Chrome by the orchestrator. Two nearly consecutive numbers at the same reference in register NL, the pattern of one entry copied. The index gives him as RICHARD; the second name William comes from his own monument, which is why the fuller form is the primary name here.