Census

There are very few census records available to help you trace your ancestors. Censuses were taken, mostly on a regional basis with the earliest comprehensive census taken in 1870/71, but no "as enumerated" data survives. Statistical reports of censuses are available and have been digitised by a consortium of Australian Universities [1]

The only known exceptions are as follows:

• 1851 Bombay Presidency Mofussil Districts- European Residents only. The data from this census is accessible through FIBIS Search. This information was originally on, and is still on the website British India Family History Census Information and further details are available there.

• 1840 Serampore (just north of Calcutta) - this was then Danish Territory and a complete census was taken of the population, including natives. The records have been microfilmed by the LDS(Mormons). A researcher in Sydney has a list of extracted names of the European & Indo-European/community at the time - most were connected with the Baptist Mission; but there were also about 180 persons described as Indo-Portuguese; on a religion basis there were 171 Protestants, 209 Roman Catholics and 1 Armenian.

• 1834 Tranquebar - Madras Presidency - again this was Danish Territory at the time and the Danish 'as enumerated' data has been preserved and has been filmed by the LDS.