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Tens of thousands of ordinary people and localities, small and large, are
mentioned every year in Government Gazettes. You will find details on
proclamations, land transactions, court notices, notice of acts, tenders
contracts, appointments and resignations, bankrupt and insolvency notices,
impoundments, police auctions, unclaimed letters, storekeepers and publicans
licences, rewards on offer, inquest verdicts and much more ...
Search for any number of names or places easily. Reconstruct events and
circumstances in the lives of individuals and communities.
Some features of this year’s issues:
- publicans licences
- wine licences
- storekeepers licences
- hawkers licences
In nearly 1700 pages, this is a vast resource of historical information
relating the people and places throughout South Australia during 1868, which is
now readily available and easily searchable for the first time.
Example entry taken from the 20 February 1868 issue:
Insolvency Notices - Declaration of Insolvency
I, the undersigned, William Watts, formerly of Harrowgate, now of near Mount
Pleasant, in the Province of South Australia, farmer, do hereby declare that I
am unable to meet my engagements with my creditors. Dated at the hour of
half-past one o'clock in the afternoon, this fourteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
William Watts,
Witness - W.H. Bundey, a practitioner, of the Supreme Court of the said
Province.
Filed in Court this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, at two o'clock in the afternoon.
John Cherry, Official Assignee.
Example entry taken from the 18 June 1868 issue:
Dissolution of Partnership
Notice is hereby given, that the partnership between the undersigned Thomas
Fotheringham and Robert Fotheringham, in the business of brewers and wine and
spirit merchants at Gawler and Kapunda, under the firm of "Fotheringham
Brothers", has this day been dissolved by mutual consent; and in future the
business of the Gawler Brewery will carried on by the said Thomas Fotheringham
alone, and that of the Kapunda Brewery by the said Robert Fotheringham alone.
All debts owing from and to the said partnership will be paid and received by Mr
David Fortheringham of Gawler, wine and spirit merchant.
Dated the fifth day of June, 1868.
T. Fortheringham.
Robert Fortheringham.
High quality scanned images of the whole years worth of issues. This CD has
been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed,
enlarged and printed out if required.
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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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