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Tasmania Reports of Crime 1862 - EBOOK

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File format: PDF, 8MB (186 pages)
Year: (1862) 2024
ISBN: 9781921515262
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Gazettes are published by governments and their agencies as a means of communication to officials and the general public. As such they are useful, not only to monitor the actions of the government, but also as far as family historians are concerned, they are valuable primary source documents.

Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force. You can expect the Tasmanian Police Gazettes to include the following information that will usually list names and some times personal details, descriptions with photograph, addresses and/or occupations may be an added bonus for the researcher:

  • apprehensions
  • convict returns
  • disciplining of police
  • escapees and absconders from custody
  • housebreakers and burglars
  • licensed carriers
  • deserting wives, families, etc
  • deserting from military service
  • deserting from merchant vessels
  • inquests
  • missing friends
  • murderers and their victims
  • police resignations
  • prisoners discharged from gaols
  • prisoners released on tickets of leave
  • property recovered
  • rewards—names of persons offering a reward
  • victims of arson
  • victims of horse and cattle stealing or straying
  • victims of lost or stolen property
  • victims of sheep stealing or straying

Far from being just a unique and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians - the Police Gazettes are useful for anyone with an interest in Tasmania in the 1860s.

Example entries taken from the 3 January 1862 issue:

City of Hobart Municipality [note: only a small portion of entries have been transcribed here]
Stolen, on the 29th ultimo, from a room in Her Majesty's General Hospital, Hobart Town:- 1 calico chemise, 1 pair of drawers, 1 white petticoat, and a black and white speckled bonnet, the property of Mary Ann Wyatt.
Lost or Stolen from the person of Mr. Charles Wilcock, of the Labour-in-Vain public-house, Elizabeth-street, on Monday, the 23rd ultimo, a double-cased silver lever watch, no name or number.
Stolen or strayed from Kelly-street, Battery Point, on the 27th ultimo:- 1 red and white Poland cow, the property of Mrs. Lord, of Kelly-street, value £10.
Some time between the evening of the 28th and morning of the 30th ultimo, the office of Messrs. Belbin and Dowdell, New Wharf, was forcibly entered, and 12s in silver and a quantity of American clothes pegs stolen therefrom.

High quality scanned images of the whole years worth of issues. This products has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

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