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Police Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for
local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout
Australia. Compiled to be distributed amongst the police force only, these
Gazettes therefore contain details and information that can not be found
anywhere else.
They include court lists, lists of warrants issued, appointments and changes
in the police service, lists of Justices of the Peace, lists of arrests and
discharges (which include descriptions), escaped prisoners, and missing persons,
as well as lists for liquor, wine sellers, tobacco sellers, auctioneers,
billiard and poisons licences. Notices from Police Gazettes from other states
are also often included.
Example entries taken from the8 April 1891 issue:
Deserters from the New South Wales Artillery
No. 1,782, Gunner, John Stuart, born in Glasgow, Scotland, 26 1/2 years of
age, 6 feet high, sandy hair, blue eyes, fresh complexion, stock rider;
dresser in regimentals; under 3 years' service.
No. 1,939, Gunner, Herbert Leopole Gates, born in Wollongong, New South Wales,
25 years and 10 months of age, 5 feet 9 1/4 inches, dark-brown hair, brown
eyes, dark complexion; grocer and bookkeeper; dressed in regimentals; under 2
years service.
Offences not Otherwise Described
Redfern.-A warrant has been issued by the Redfern Bench for the arrest of
Elizabeth Callaghan, charged with larceny as a bailee of one iron bedstead and
bedding, one dining table, one safe, and other household furniture, value £12
19s. 3d, the property of Henry Tear, 154, Oxford-street. Offender is from 35
to 40 years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, medium build, fair hair and
complexion; rather dressy appearance.
Originally produced by Archive CD Books Australia in 2006, this title has now
been remastered and re-released, and includes better searching capability. This
CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole year's worth of issues, 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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