Local Records

Listed below are some of the local records available for use at our library. In addition, we have numerous books, maps and photos pertaining to the local district, to NSW and to all other states of Australia. We have an extensive index card system as well as a large collection of family trees and journals and Members' Research Directories from other Family History Societies.

We hold memorial inscriptions from cemeteries in the Greater Lithgow Council area and surrounding districts. For a list of those for sale see Publications.

* Microfiche  #also on computer

Lithgow

• Gravediggers' Books 1916-c1984

• St Paul’s Church of England - Baptisms 1879-1939; Burials 1879-1903; Marriages 1879 - 1932. (Earlier entries indexed on computer#)

• St Patrick's Catholic Baptisms 1876 - 1914.

• Lithgow District Hospital Register of Admissions, Discharges 1896 - 1917, 1923 - 1934; Daily Record of Patients 1896 - 1917*

• Index to the Infectious Diseases Register 1898 - 1953*

• Purchasers of land in Lithgow from Rutherford, Sandford & Hoskins 1882-1948 by Ian Rufus#

• Lithgow Valley Colliery Payroll Books – 1883 – 1891, 1936-1956

• Lithgow Public School Punishment Book 1952 – 1984

• Lithgow High School Punishment Book 1944 – 1966

• Lithgow Mercury Snippets 1890 – 1970 (various newspaper cuttings) - indexed

• Zig Zag Public School Admissions Register 1908 – 1950; Punishment Book 1925 – 1963.

• Oral History Tapes 1987 – Interviews with older members of Lithgow Community - indexed

Bowenfels

• Presbyterian Church (Rev Colin Stewart) Baptisms & Marriages 1838 – 1890

• South Bowenfels Public School Admissions Register – 1930 - 1963

Hartley

• Hartley/Vale of Clwydd Court House Bench Books & Index to Committals 1837 - 1842

• Hartley/Vale of Clwydd indexes to cases against Free Persons 1836 - 1874.  Local extracts 1836-1841#

• Hartley District Court Register - local extracts 1859 - 1898#

• District Electoral Rolls 1869 - 1870; 1873 - 1874

• Donations to Irish Scotch Relief Fund  1847

• Index to Hartley Village Land Sales 1840 onwards

• District Publicans' licenses c 1820 - 1900

• St. John’s Church of England Baptisms 1857 - 1905; Marriages 1857 - 1909; Burials

• St Bernard's Catholic - Baptisms 1843 - 1880, Marriages 1844 - 1856#; Deaths 1849 - 1869; Burials 1845 - 1967

• District Court House- Various birth, death and marriage certificates

• parish antonio - Landholders c 1850

Wallerawang

• St Johns Church of England  - Marriages 1958 - 1963; Baptisms 1884 - 1920; Burials 1893 - 1981#

• Wallerawang Colliery Payroll Book 1972

Portland

• Catholic Church - Baptisms 1891 - 1898; Marriages 1892 - 1917

• St Stephens Church of England - Burials 1908 - 1983#

Marrangaroo

• School Register of Admissions 1912 - 1982

Rydal

• School  Register of Admissions 1886 - 1968 & Visitor’s book 1869 – 1927

•  Rydal Family History Sketch Book. Includes extracts of information on Rydal from various sources

Tarana

• School Register of Admissions 1924 - 1970

Sunny Corner

• Births, Marriages & Burials 1882-1905 (compiled by Vicki Powys)

Oberon

• Catholic Church Records Baptisms 1881 - 1895; Marriages 1873 - 1934

Bathurst  

• Local extracts from Catholic Baptisms 1839-1842 (includes Lithgow/Hartley district & precedes the St. Bernard’s Hartley register)

• Presbyterian Church - Marriages 1832 - 1850; Christenings 1832 - 1850. Burials 1833 - 1850

• Honour Rolls   of people who enlisted from Bathurst & District - includes a wide area. Many names in the book History of the Bathurst Contingents 1868-1987 by Denis Chamberlain#

Kelso

• Holy Trinity Church of England - selected local records (Lithgow/Hartley district) Baptisms, Marriages & Burials 1826 - 1867#. List of people buried in Pioneer Graves section 

Miscellaneous 

• Cemeteries - Memorial inscriptions of Greater Lithgow and surrounding districts

• Central West Hotel licences

• Local parish maps

• Aldine Centennial History of NSW 1888*

• Government Gazettes - material filed under 2790 - AGCI*

• 1901 Census Enumerators' Books* (index to local entries on computer#)

• Index to local servants in 1828 census#

• Nominal Roll WWI