Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (5655 pages)
Year: (1907) 2015
ISBN: 9781742222523
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

An amazing resource, the Government Gazettes are a unique source for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout Australia.

Usually published weekly, they were published by the government as a means of communication to officials and the general public and therefore contain information that is of great use in establishing an image of Australia and its people in the past.

A massive volume of over 5,600 pages, the 1907 gazette includes information relating to a wide variety of topics – of interest to both genealogists and historians:

• Auditors – list of persons authorised to act as Auditors for Companies
• Business partnerships – both the creation and dissolution
• Certificates of competency (under Marine Act)
• Classified Roll of State School teachers
• Contracts accepted – (supply of forage, supply of provisions, general stores for Public Service)
• Estates of deceased persons
• Government appointments and general notices
• Insolvencies
• Land Tax Register and Valuation for Victoria
• List of Licensed Surveyors
• Mining companies and leases granted; shareholders of mining companies
• Ministers of religion registered to celebrate marriages
• Patents and trademarks
• Pharmaceutical Register for 1907
• Register of Medical Practitioners and Dentists for 1907
• Public Service list of employees
• Roll of Merchants and Traders, Roll of Underwriters, Roll of Ship Owners, Roll of Pilots, Roll of Engineers, Roll of Masters, and Roll of Seamen (under Marine Act 1890)
• and much more

Sample entries taken from the 26 January 1907 issue:

Register of Medical Practitioners for 1907
No. of Certificate / Date of Registration / Name / Address / Qualifications
2505 / Oct. 3, 1906 / Abbot, Charles Thomas / Grand Hotel, Melbourne / M.D. Univ. of Louisville, Kentucky 1894
1469 / Aug. 3, 1888 / Abbott, Thomas Eastoe / 137 Macquarie street, Hobart, Tasmania / L.S.A. Lond. 1880
77 / July 30, 1862 / a'Beckett, William Goldsmid / 119 Wellington street, St. Kilda / M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; L.S.A. Lond. 1861
1764 / Nov. 10, 1891 / Abernethy, James / England / M.E. et Ch. B. Melb. 1891
1484 / Sep. 7, 1888 / Abramowski, Otto Louis Moritz / Mildura / M.D. Berlin 1876; Staats Examen 1876
1897 / Dec. 29, 1893 / Acton, Frederick Charles / Red Hill, S.A. / MB. Melb. 1893

With tens of thousands of people mentioned in the Gazette for any number of reasons - jobs, land transactions, estates, occupation and so on ... if your ancestor was in Victoria in 1907 there's a good chance that they'd be listed for one reason or another.

This product contains high quality scanned images of the original gazette. It has been bookmarked for easy navigation. 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 for CDs with searchable text