Browse the Record
The gazettes recorded the official life of the colony — land grants, licences, appointments, insolvencies, pardons and rewards. Each notice is corrected from the original print and cited to its exact page. Start with the kind you're after.
The moments worth a second look — founding proclamations, the gold discovery, famous pardons and the notices with a story above the routine.
Includes: the founding of Melbourne · the Gold Proclamation · the Tolpuddle pardons · Queen Victoria's accession
Browse the landmarks →Town and country land sales, selections under the Land Acts, Crown grants and reserves.
Includes: selections · allotments · sections · counties & parishes · reserves
Browse land records →Tickets of leave, conditional pardons, certificates of freedom and lists of absconders.
Includes: tickets of leave · pardons · absconders · certificates of freedom
Browse convict records →Insolvency notices, meetings of creditors, probate and deceased estates.
Includes: insolvencies · creditors' meetings · probate · deceased estates
Browse insolvency records →Magistrates, postmasters, poundkeepers, commissions of the peace and public offices.
Includes: magistrates · postmasters · poundkeepers · commissions of the peace
Browse appointments →Publicans, auctioneers, hawkers and more — yearly lists that place a person at an address.
Includes: publicans · auctioneers · hawkers · slaughterhouses
Browse licences →Gold and mineral lease applications and grants, with claim numbers and localities.
Includes: gold & mineral leases · claim numbers · mining districts
Browse mining records →Rewards for apprehension, missing persons, stolen and impounded stock, lost and found.
Includes: rewards · impounded stock · absconders · missing persons
Browse rewards & pounds →Partnership formations and dissolutions, company registrations and government tenders.
Includes: partnerships · dissolutions · registrations · tenders & contracts
Browse company records →Governors' proclamations, orders in council and the regulations that ran the colony.
Includes: proclamations · orders in council · regulations · district boundaries
Browse proclamations →No kind matches that — try a broader word, or search the records by name instead.
Pick a kind and a decade to read the notices themselves — newest issue first, no search term needed.
The founding collection — the New South Wales, Port Phillip and Victorian gazettes, corrected, classified and cited page-by-page.
The first newspaper collection — a Victorian country weekly, corrected and cited page-by-page alongside the gazettes.
Records deposited by members at the Lodgement Office — examined, transcribed and filed alongside the gazettes.