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New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903

New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903 · naturalisation · Ancestry

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Authority: Colonial Secretary, New South Wales
Series: naturalisation
Years covered: 1849-1903
Archive reference: NRS 1040 Registers of Certificates of Naturalization
Provider: Ancestry
Collection id: 1549
Form accessed: image

ancestry.com.au ↗ retrieved 2026-09-07 Added manually

Certificates issued to non-British subjects who wished to hold land or vote in New South Wales; the certificate states the applicant's native place, age, occupation, ship and year of arrival, and years of residence. Ancestry, signed in, in a browser — it refuses scripted requests. Absence of a certificate is not evidence a man was not German: many never applied.

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New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903 certificate no. 440, 22 January 1886 Primary

New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903 · naturalisation · Ancestry

For James Ernest Grenenger (1838–1918)

Ernest Grenenger a native of Frankfort a/M Germany aged 45 years, who is a Tanner

His birthplace, from his own certificate: Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt is about 35 km from Butzbach, the town the WikiTree profiles give for both brothers, so the two statements are consistent — but the certificate does not say Butzbach, and Wenzel #82883 has no certificate of his own in this series (Gren*, Gro* and Kren* with given name Wenzel all searched).