Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 16MB (276 pages)
Year: (1883) 2024
ISBN: 9781921175978
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

If you had family living in South Australia in the 1880s, have you thought of looking at the Police Gazettes for information? These are a 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.

This is a compilation of all 52 issues of the South Australia Police Gazette that were issued 1883. Each issue is usually four pages long, and contains information such as court lists, lists of warrants issued, appointments and changes in the Police Service, lists of Justices of the Peace, lists of arrests and discharges (which include descriptions), escaped prisoners, and missing persons. Notices from Police Gazettes from other states are also often included.

SAMPLE ENTRIES:

Stealing in Dwellings, from the Person, &c.
On the night of 15th instant, from the trap of Henry William Stoneham, at Modbury, two lamps and a whip.-(C.1812.)

Deserters from Merchant Vessels
From the Ship 'Ashmore' at Port Adelaide, on September 15th 1883, Johan Jansen, ship's carpenter, 30 years of age, 5ft. 6in. high, fair complexion, blue eyes, moustache only; a Norwegian. £1 reward.

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