Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (3888 pages)
Year: (1911) 2012
ISBN: 9781922063342
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

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 1911 Queensland Government Gazette has information regarding:
 - Appointments, promotions and resignations (including teachers)
 - Public Service List of 1911
 - Trustees of cemeteries, hospitals, racecourses, Schools of Arts, sports grounds, grammar schools, &c.
 - Magistrates and Justices of the Peace
 - Members of Boards and Committees
 - Brands and earmarks
 - Dissolution of business partnerships
 - Errors in deeds
 - Government Acts and Proclamations
 - Intestacy returns and notices
 - Insolvency notices
 - Rents on occupation licenses, List of rents of holdings; a variety of other land records
 - Licences: including auctioneers, bagatelle licences, licensed victuallers, winesellers, billiard licenses, fishing licences, packet licences and more
 - Probate notices
 - Professional lists including medical practitioners, chemists, dentists, ministers of religion, surveyors
 - Transmissions of real estate by death
 - and much more including road closures, unclaimed property and tender notices

SAMPLE ENTRY:

In the Supreme Court of Queensland.
In the Will of Mary Woods, late of Terrace street, Spring Hill, Brisbane, in the State of Queensland, spinster, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that, after the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the publication hereof, application will be made to this Honourable Court that Probate of the Will of the abovenamed Mary Woods, deceased, may be granted to Margaret Concannon, of Terrace street, Spring Hill, Brisbane, in the State of Queensland, widow, and Elizabeth Barry, wife of Richard Barry, of New Farm, Brisbane aforesaid, storekeeper, the lawful sisters of the said deceased, and the Executrices named in the said Will. Any person interested who desires to object to the application, or to be heard upon it, may file a caveat in the Registry at any time before he grant is made.
Dated this twenty-first day of July, 1911.
JOHN W. O'MARA,
Solicitor for the said Margaret Concannon and Elizabeth Barry

This product contains high quality scanned images of the original gazettes. It has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

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