Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (3034 pages)
Year: (1871) 2010
ISBN: 9781742229263
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 1871 contains:
 - appointees to government positions
 - appointments to Public School Boards
 - Deeds of Grants ready for delivery
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - errors in deeds
 - horse and cattle brands
 - insolvents
 - land for sale; crown land set aside for religious purposes
 - lapsed and forfeited conditional purchases of land, pre-emptive leases
 - licenses for auctioneers, timber, and publicans, and notices for other licensing meetings
 - licensed surveyors
 - magistrates appointed
 - medical practitioners
 - ministers of religion
 - petitions and counter-petitions
 - proclamations
 - Post Office mail contractors
 - probate and letters of administration notices
 - rents not paid and leases lapsed
 - schedule of roads applied for to be closed and alienated (and the applicants)
 - shareholders
 - unclaimed letters
 - and much more

SAMPLE ENTRY:

ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.
In the will of Thomas Lloyd, late of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, wharfinger, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given, that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication of this notice, application will be made to this Honorable Court, in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that probate of the last will and testament of the abovenamed Thomas Lloyd, deceased, may be granted to Jane Lloyd, of Sydney aforesaid, the widow of the abovenamed Thomas Lloyd, deceased, and to Richard White, of Sydney aforesaid, clerk to the Australian Steam Navigation Company, the Executrix and Executor duly appointed by the said will.— Dated this 18th day of January, A.D. 1871.
WOOD READETT, Proctor for the said Trustees, Newcastle.

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