Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (2952 pages)
Year: (1866) 2009
ISBN: 9781742223247
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Government gazettes for a particular locality eventually become standardised with the type of material listed. In the 1860s you can expect the Victorian Government Gazettes to include the following information that will usually list names and sometimes name of emigrant vessel, addresses and/or occupations:

• applicants for patents
• appointees to government positions
• auctioneers
• cemetery and church land trustees
• consuls
• creation and dissolution of business partnerships
• executed prisoners
• insolvents
• land purchasers
• missing friends
• persons owing money to Treasury
• persons named in writs to be executed by the Sheriff
• petitioners to establish local government
• successful tenderers for government business and works
• unclaimed letters

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