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The Government Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout Australia. They were published by the government as a means of communication to officials and the general public and therefore contain information that is of great use in establishing an image of Australia and its people in the past.
The New South Wales Government Gazette of 1864 contains:
- appointees to government positions
- appointments of Magistrates and Justices of the Peace
- court cases
- dissolution of business partnerships
- errors in deeds
- estates of deceased persons
- insolvents
- land for sale
- licenses for auctioneers, timber, spirit merchants, brewers, and notices for other licensing meetings
- medical practitioners
- ministers of religion
- notices relating to convicts
- petitioners for municipal institutions
- police appointments
- probate and letters of administration announcements
- returning officers
- runs of Crown land
- title deeds ready for delivery
- unclaimed letters
- and much more
Example entry:
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.
In the goods of Franz Kuss, late of the Lachlan, in the Colony of New South Wales, miner, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given, that at the expiration of fourteen days from the publication of this notice, application will be made to this Honorable Court, in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that administration of the goods , chattels, credits and effects of the abovenamed Franz Kuss, in the Colony of New South Wales, may be granted to George Penkivil Slade, of 142, Pitt-street, Sydney, in the said Colony, Esquire, an attorney appointed for that purpose by Johann Baptist Kuss, of Furtwangen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, saddler, father and one of the next of kin of the said deceased. Dated this thirty-first day of Decembet, A.D. 1863.
This CD contains high quality scanned images of the original gazettes, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s. Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
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System Requirements
- Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
- Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text
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