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NameNSW Census, 1856
Description

NSW counties and pastoral districts and their population in 1856 according to the 1861 census (which has a comparison with 1856 data).

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ContributorDr Bill Pascoe
Entries32
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Added to System2025-12-13 15:30:59
Updated in System2025-12-13 15:31:07
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CreatorBill Pascoe (extracted from ADA census data)
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Citation

Australian Bureau of Statistics; Australian Data Archive; Smith, Len; Rowse, Tim; Hungerford, Stuart, 2019, "Historical and Colonial Census Data Archive (HCCDA)", doi:10.26193/MP6WRS, ADA Dataverse, V5 https://dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.26193/MP6WRS 

DOI
Source URLhttps://doi.org/10.26193/MP6WRS
Linkbackhttps://doi.org/10.26193/MP6WRS
Date From1856-01-01
Date To1856-12-31
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Used under the source data's licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Description

NSW counties and pastoral district and their population according in 1856 according to the subsequent 1861 census.

Extended Data

Population
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Durham

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Description

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Gloucester

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Hunter

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King

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Macquarie

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Northumberland

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Phillip

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Roxburgh

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St. Vincent

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Wellington

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Westmoreland

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Albert

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Clarence

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Description

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Darling

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Description

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Liverpool Plains

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Description

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Extended Data

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Macleay

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Monaro

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Murrumbidgee

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New England

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