Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (2862 pages)
Year: (1861) 2010
ISBN: 9781742226545
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 1861 contains:
 - accepted tenders for runs
 - appointees to government positions
 - appointments of Magistrates of the Territory
 - certificates of competency issued by Pilot Board
 - convicts gaining (and being deprived of) Tickets of Leave
 - convicts granted Conditional Pardons including the terms of the pardon
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - error in deeds
 - estates of deceased persons
 - impoundings
 - insolvent estates
 - land for sale / transfers of runs
 - leases of mineral lands
 - legally qualified medical practitioners
 - licenses for auctioneers, spirit merchants, brewers, and notices for publicans, confectioners, hawkers & pedlers licensing meetings
 - ministers of religion registered for the celebration of marriages
 - police appointments
 - probate and letters of administration announcements
 - ship’s deserters (stragglers)
 - unclaimed letters
 - and much more

SAMPLE ENTRY:

DESCRIPTION of a Straggler from Her Majesty's Ship "Cordelia":-
Ellis L. Lee, gun room steward, 25 years of age, native of Birmingham, 5 feet 5 inches high, light brown hair, grey eyes ; supposed to be a ticket-of-leave holder from Tasmania; shipped on board the “Cordelia” at Auckland, New Zealand; lately in charge of Artillery horses from Sydney. £1 reward.
JNO. M'LERIE, Inspector General of Police

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the original book, 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.