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Births in Australia 1788-1828 is a comprehensive index of 27,500 of the children born and baptised in the various Australian colonies and settlements in the era. A few Maori and Aboriginal children are included.

The population of the sixteen British sites around Australia, viz., Port Jackson-Botany Bay, Norfolk Island (2), O'Sullivan's Cove (Port Phillip), King Island, Morton Bay, Van Diemens Land, New Guinea, Westernport, Ambon, Albany, Melville Island, New Zealand, Swan River, the Kimberleys and Cape Baron and the colony of Americans on Kangaroo Island neared 100,000 by 1828.

James Donohoe.