Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (2314 pages)
Year: (1858) 2010
ISBN: 9781742224992
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

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 1858 contains:
 - appointees to government positions
 - appointments of Magistrates and Justices of the Peace
 - clergy and ministers of religion
 - court cases
 - convicts gaining (and being deprived of) Tickets of Leave
 - convicts granted Free Pardons and Conditional Pardons including the terms of the pardon
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - estates of deceased persons
 - insolvents
 - land for sale
 - licenses for auctioneers, timber, spirit merchants, brewers, and notices for publicans, confectioners, hawkers & pedlars licensing meetings
 - medical witnesses at coroner’s inquests and inquiries held before Justices of the Peace
 - police appointments
 - probate and letters of administration announcements
 - ship's deserters
 - successful tenderers for runs
 - unclaimed letters
 - and much more

SAMPLE ENTRY:

CONDITIONAL PARDON
NOTICE is hereby given, that, in conformity with the provisions of the Act of Parliament, 6 Vict., cap. 7, Her Majesty has been pleased to authorise the issue of a Pardon to the undermentioned individual, on condition that, during the remainder of the term of his sentence, he does not return to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Dated 25th January, 1858.
Peter Haigh, “Morley," (5).
CHARLES COWPER.

This CD contains high quality scanned images of years worth of original issues, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text

SAMPLE FILE:
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.