
Don't forget that 31 Oct 1840 a son was born to John and Elizabeth CATES and he was baptised at St Laurence in Sydney and named
Charles Collier CATES 
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EDIT on 13 Dec 2010 FIRST NAME reads George, not Charles .... my mistooken, sorry JM
NSW BDM online index has this as V1840725 26A/1840
Charles C CATES with parents John and Elizabeth A
and I'm sure volume 26A would be St Laurence. Ancestry has same V reference and shows it as at MF which is the NSW BDM's Early Church Records code for "Church of England Sydney, St Lawrence's" (I am very very certain this is Christ Church St Laurence, where various of my forebears attended, married, had their children baptised etc in the 1840's and 1850's)
Terry, V18400725 26A/1840 ....
V is the Volume number in NSW BDM records V
1840 ie the year V1840
0725 ie line 725 in the volume V18400725
26A/1840 26A being the volume, and 1840 the 'double check' for the year (although the event being recorded is the actual baptism of 1842, when NSW BDM was setting up these computerised indexes in the 1980's they continued with the practice of indexing the year of the Birth where it was included on the PR's) ....
Cheers, JM