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Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 10MB (212 pages)
Year: (1863) 2024
ISBN: 9781921515279
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Police gazettes provide information and instructions to members of the police force. For historians these are a wonderful resource of historical and genealogical information. You can expect the Tasmanian Police Gazettes to include the following information (usually listing names and sometimes personal details, addresses and/or occupations may be an added bonus for the researcher):

apprehensions
convict returns
disciplining of police
escapees and absconders from custody
housebreakers and burglars
licensed carriers
deserting wives, families, etc
deserting from military service
deserting from merchant vessels
inquests
missing friends
murderers and their victims
police resignations
prisoners discharged from gaols
prisoners released on tickets of leave
property recovered
rewardsnames of persons offering a reward
victims of arson
victims of horse and cattle stealing or straying
victims of lost or stolen property
victims of sheep stealing or straying

Example entry taken from the 23 October 1863 issue:

ESCAPED PRISONER
The prisoner described below effected his escape from the Watch-house at Torquay, on the 9th instant, whislt under remand on a charge of sheep-stealing:- Description: Alfred Evans, age 17, height 5 feet 4 inches, complexion dark, hair black, whiskers black and worn around the chin, eyes dark; dressed in Tartan jumper (small stripes), check shirt, black wide-a-wake hat, and dark cloth trousers. Parents reside at Marsh's Paddock, near Deloraine. See also Crime Report of the 18th September, page 146.

Gazettes are published by governments and their agencies as a means of communication to officials and the general public. As such they are useful, not only to monitor the actions of the government, but also as far as family historians are concerned, they are valuable primary source documents.

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

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Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended

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