Browse the Record
The gazettes printed the official life of the colony — who was granted land, who went insolvent, who was licensed, pardoned, appointed or pursued. Each notice is classified, corrected from the original print, and cited to its exact page. Start with the kind of record you're after.
Town and country land sales, selections under the Land Acts, Crown grants and reserves — with allotment, section, county and parish as printed.
Browse land records →Tickets of leave, conditional pardons, certificates of freedom and lists of absconders — often the only printed trace of a convict ancestor's movements.
Browse convict records →Insolvency notices, meetings of creditors, probate and deceased estates — rich in names, occupations, residences and dates.
Browse insolvency records →Magistrates, postmasters, poundkeepers, commissions of the peace and public offices across the colony — careers traced through the official columns.
Browse appointments →Publicans, auctioneers, hawkers, slaughterhouses and more — annual licensing lists that place a person at an address in a given year.
Browse licences →Gold and mineral lease applications and grants, with claim numbers, localities and partners' names from the mining districts.
Browse mining records →Rewards for apprehension, missing persons, stolen stock, lost and found — the colony's incidents as officially proclaimed.
Browse rewards & notices →Partnership formations and dissolutions, company registrations and government tenders — the commercial record of the colony.
Browse company records →The founding collection — corrected, classified and cited page-by-page.
Records deposited by members at the Lodgement Office — examined, transcribed and filed alongside the gazettes.