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Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 10MB (218 pages)
Year: (1866) 2024
ISBN: 9781921515378
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

If you are researching in Tasmania in the 1860s, have you thought of looking in the Tasmanian Police Gazettes (called 'Reports of Crime' for the early issues)? They are packed full of information on people, and events that took place throughout Tasmania, and are an historians goldmine of information.

Providing information and instructions to members of the police force, you can expect the Tasmanian Police Gazettes to include the following information (usually list names, sometimes personal details, with descriptions, addresses and/or occupations):

apprehensions
convict returns
disciplining of police
escapees and absconders from custody
housebreakers and burglars
licensed carriers, hawkers, oyster fishers, and tanners
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 and stock 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

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.

Example entries taken from the 5 January 1866 issue:

Franklin
Lost (supposed to have been stolen) from Hospital Bay, on the 29th ultimo, a whale-boat, 22 feet long, painted black, brown stripe round the gunwale. The gunwale is broken on the starboard side. "Fawn" painted on the stern, the property of James Robertson, of Hobart Town.
Torquay
Stolen or strayed on the 25th ultimo, from the farm of Mr. Geo. Aikin, of Moriarty Road: A white heifer, 2 years old, branded D on both horns, the property of Robert Rick, of High Plains, Deloraine.
Property Lost
Lost on the 1st instant, at Shipwright's Point, Franklin: A black shawl with fur round it, the property of Mr. Morriss, of the Hobart Town Savings Bank.

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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