Have ordered her birth certificate today.
Hi there,
Merlin has mentioned that civil registration did not commence until 1856 and provided you with a link supporting that. That link mentions the Early Church Records, so the index reference that Merlin has provided is for the baptism of Elizabeth HOADS. I would not anticipate that the document you are ordering will have much more information about that Elizabeth’s MUM (which you are hoping is Bridget Muldoon) from the combined information that Merlin has supplied and the index itself, as it predates the commencement of civil birth registrations.
Here is the family search organisation’s transcription links.
John and Bridget HOADS listed as parents for Elizabeth.
Birth 25 December 1852 (notice, as per usual practices for that era, this does NOT give a place of birth, only a date of birth).
Baptised at Carcoar on 6 March 1853.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTCG-ZT5 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTXH-5VV You will notice one has LESS information than the other. So, one is likely a transcription of the original parish register and the other is likely the transcription of the secondary parish register. So, likely BOTH those parish registers are still extant. If that is the case, then likely there’s also a possible register including details of the local families. I mention this because it seems that the family were Church of England (based on the info in the obituary for Mrs Hoad senior). The Church of England in 19th century New South Wales kept a register of their local families for each parish. You can see the images of all those parish registers held by Christ Church, from Hexham NSW online, free to search. The live links are included in the NSW Resources section here at Rootschat.
Here’s the link to that fantastic RChat Resources board:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=369703.0 Here’s the link from the NSW RChat Resources Board reply re the Christ Church Cathedral’s family register sheets:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/sets/72157606066769147/ That is the type of register I would expect the Carcoar Parish would have forwarded to their Diocese archives when it was 'full' . The C of E at Carcoar is part of the Bathurst diocese.
Cheers, JM