A compendium of Wise's 'Tasmania Post Office Directories' containing
all Wises' Tasmanian Post Office Directories from 1901 to 1905. Here you can expect to find people named
with their addresses under:
- Alphabetical directory (colony-wide)
- Towns directory
- Street directory (Hobart and Launceston only)
- Trades directory
Other sections including names but usually not addresses:
- Government and official directory
- The Courts, barristers, solicitors, public notaries and Justices of
the Peace
- Medical practitioners, dentists and chemists
- University of Tasmania staff
- Non-government school managers and music teachers
- Clergy
- Societies, dairy producers, fruit growers, hop growers, pastoral
station owners and managers
- Municipal officers, Road Trusts secretaries, Fruit Board inspectors,
Marine Boards members
- Bankers, building societies, insurance officers and company managers
- Manufacturers of English goods for export to Tasmania
Directories are one of the most effective ways of tracing members of a
family, especially tradesmen, is through searching directories. Many small
businesses needed to ensure the public was aware of their activity and one of
the better ways to do this in an age before media dominated was via a directory.
The value of directories as a research tool is enhanced when no census material
is available. Users should always refer to the display advertisements as they often provide
names and addresses.
This CD is a compilation of five different volumes of the Wise's
Tasmania Post Office Directory. Each of these can be purchased
individually:
Tasmania Post Office Directory 1901 (Wise)
Tasmania Post Office Directory 1902 (Wise)
Tasmania Post Office Directory 1903 (Wise)
Tasmania Post Office Directory 1904 (Wise)
Tasmania Post Office Directory 1905 (Wise)
High quality scanned images of the whole of the each original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
