Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 10MB (217 pages)
Year: (1864) 2024
ISBN: 9781921515286
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

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.

Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force. You can expect the Tasmanian Police Gazettes to include the following information that will usually list names and some times personal details, descriptions with photograph, 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
• rewards—names 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 entries from the 5 February 1864 issue:

Return of Prisoners
discharged from H. M. Gaols and Houses of Correction during the Week ending 30th
January, 1864

Hobart Town.
Brewer, John, tried P.O. Hobart , 13th January, 1864, assault, 14 days.
Allen, Francis, tried P.O. Hobart, 11th January, 1864, disturbing the peace, 6 weeks. Sentence remitted.
Samson, Charles, alias Shelton, W., tried P.O. Pontville, 29th December, 1863, larceny, 1 month.
Bates, John, tried P.O. Launceston, 18th August, 1862, larceny, 6 months; ditto
21st January, 1863, escaping, 6 months; ditto 2nd April, 1863, escaping, 6 months.
Curtis, William, tried P.O. Hobart, 21st January, 1864, breach of agreement, 12 weeks. Discharged to ship.
Gooden, James, tried P.O. Hobart, 2nd January, 1864, deserting ship, 12 weeks. Ditto.
Harris, Charles, tried P.O. Hobart, 2nd January, 1864, deserting ship, 12 weeks. Ditto.
Asbury, Alfred, tried P.O. Hobart, 1st January, 1864, disturbing the peace, 1 month.
Stringer, Stephen, tried P.O. Hobart, 13th November, 1863, larceny, 3 months.
Collins, Thomas, tried P.O. Richmond, 31st October, 1863, idle and disorderly, 3 months.
Delahunt, John, from Port Arthur.
Singleton, Henry, ditto.
Clarke, Matthew, ditto.
Self, Henry, ditto.
Travis, Mary Ann, tried P.O. Hobart, 5th November, 1863, idle and disorderly, 3 months.
Wallace, Mary, tried P.O. Hobart, 7th November, 1863, disturbing the peace, 3 months.
Dwyer, Mary, tried P.O. Hobart, 6th November, 1863, larceny, 3 months.
Johnson, Eliza, tried P.O. Hobart, 6th November, 1863, feloniously receiving, 3 months.
Brown, Mary Ann, tried P.O. Hobart, 26th December, 1863, disturbing the peace, 1 month.
Stannard, Isabella, tried P.O. Hobart, 2nd November, 1863, idle and disorderly, 3 months.
Kelly, Catherine, tried P.O. Hobart, 26th December, 1863, idle and disorderly, 1 month.
Hawkins or Drew, Ann, tried P.O. Hobart, 12th March, 1863, larceny, 12 months.
Riley, Catherine, tried P.O. Hobart, 30th November, 1863, using obscene language, 2 months.
Brown, Ellen, tried P.O. Hobart, 2nd November, 1863, idle and disorderly, 3 months.
Smith, Mary, tried P.O. Hobart, 2nd November, 1863, idle and disorderly, 3 months.
M'Donald, Harriet, tried P.O. Hobart, 29th December, 1863, idle and disorderly, 1 month.

A wonderful resource of history now readily available. This product contains high quality scanned images of the whole years worth of issues, and it has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and 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

NOTE: this product is supplied as a digital download 

• You will be sent an order confirmation email immediately
• A link to download the file will be sent as soon as your payment is confirmed

MORE RELATED PRODUCTS

• Tasmanian police gazette index - indexes to 74 years of gazettes - FREE download
• Tasmanian police gazette collection - 74 years of gazettes on a searchable USB flash drive
• All Tasmanian police gazettes
• All Tasmanian products - books, data CDs, ebooks