Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 21MB (425 pages)
Year: (1875) 2023
ISBN: 9781921371134
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

If you had family living in New South Wales in 1875, have you thought of looking in Police Gazettes for information? These are a truly unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians.

Compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only, these Gazettes contain details and information that can not be found anywhere else. Apart from any changes within the police force which are all listed (promotions, demotions, dismissals, deaths etc), information is also given on housebreak-ins, robberies, arson, murders, lost horses and cattle, deserters, escaped prisoners, missing friends, reports on those released, even deaths reported to the police (together with their place of death and cause of death given). Notices from interstate police gazettes are sometimes included.

A fascinating read for learning about the social history of the time, even if you don't have family there - this CD contains all 52 issues that were produced for the year.

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 20 January 1875 issue):

Burglaries, Stealing from the Premises, &c.
Stolen, date not stated, from the premises of Reuben Ezzy, Manildra, nearOrange - Twp dark cloth ponchos, one Crimean and three twilled shirts, one pair dark striped trousers, one tomahawk, one shingling hammer, one rule, one pair scissors, one razor, two silver open-faced verge watches, two dark cloth coats, one blanket, and other articles. Identifiable. Suspicion is attached to Henry Blanchard, alias Simon, about 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, dark complexion, brown hair, beard and moustache, cheeks shaved, bad teeth; plays the banjo. Supposed to have gone to Parkes. No warrant issued.

High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

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