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Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 11MB (207 pages)
Year: (1875) 2024
ISBN: 9781921515538
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 (in the earliest years called Reports of Crime) to include the following information that will usually list names and sometimes personal details, descriptions with photograph, addresses and/or occupations as an added bonus for the researcher:

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

Example entry taken from the 18 October 1875 issue:

Return of Paupers Discharged from the Invalid Depots, Tasmania
Name	Ship	From what District Admitted	Date Admitted	Date Discharged	Remarks - why discharged, and if able to earn their living
Smith, John	D. of Richmond	Hobart	31 Dec. '73	2 Oct. '75	To service
Halliday, Thomas	Lord Auckland	Ditto	7 Jan. '75	Ditto	At own request. Unable to work.
Shields, Francis	Lord Dalhousie	Ditto	11 May '75	4 Oct. '75	Ditto. Ditto.
Connor, Michael	Dawson	Ditto	25 June '75	Ditto	Ditto. Able to work.
Brennan, James	F. Fish	Ditto	4 May '75	7 Oct. '75	Ditto. Unable to work.
Sutton, John	Nile	Ditto	10 April '75	8 Oct. '75	Ditto. Ditto.
Graves, Joshua	M. Soames	Ditto	10 July '75	11 Oct. '75	Ditto. Able to work
Parry, Evan	Moffatt 2	Ditto	29 April '75	Ditto	Ditto. Unable to work.
Cochrane, Samuel	E. & Henry	Launceston	13 May '75	Ditto	Ditto. Able to work.
Burke, James	Salween	Hobart	25 Sept. '75	13 Oct. '75	To Police

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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