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Harriland Press is a small publisher and distributor of items relating to genealogy, social and Aboriginal history in Victoria, Australia . The items listed below are available for purchase. Please click on the relevant entry for details.Harriland Press also offers a special service with regard to the microfiche indexes. A search can be undertaken of all the names listed in these indexes, and if successful, a copy provided of the details found, for a fee of A$10 per surname. (No GST fee).
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First Residents of Melbourne's Western Region.
For God's sake send the trackers ...
Cops and Robbers. A guide to researching 19th Century Police and Criminal Records in Victoria Australia. OUT OF PRINT
Helen Hart 'Founder of Women's Suffrage in Australasia' NEW !!
MICROFICHE:25% discount on all fiche while stocks last.
Index to Children in Victorian Institutions 1860-63.
Index to Candidates for the Victorian Police 1852-1872, Part One. Sold out
Index to Candidates for the Victorian Police 1873-1893, Part Two. Few left
Index to Candidates for the Victorian Police 1852-1893, Part Three. Few left
Index to Candidates for the Victorian Police 1894-1908 & Miscellaneous 1870s. Part Four.
Index to Candidates for the Victorian Police 1909-1918, Part Five.
Missing Friends in the Victoria Police Gazette 1880-85. Sold out
Index to Tasmanians in Vic. Police Gazette 1853-1893.
Index to Deserters of Wives and Children 1880-1885; 1886-1890; 1891-1895
Infant Life Protection Act of 1890 - Indexes to mothers, children, nurses and adoptive parents
At the time of European settlement on the Yarra River, the region was occupied by a number of Koorie clans. These groups, members of a confederacy called Kulin, had adapted their way of life to the rich environments theirspiritual ancestors had created. This book details that way of life and looks also at the rapid and massive changes at the European invasion brought, both to the landscapes and to Koorie culture. Highly recommended for assisting with understanding traditional Aboriginal life in this area. <
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For thousands of years before Europeans settled on the land now covered by the western region of Melbourne, it was the estate of a number of Koorie clans. This publication looks at the original landscape and examines the social life of local Aboriginal people before white people took their lands.
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Following the use of Queensland Aboriginal troopers during the 1879-80 hunt for the Kelly Gang, Victoria Police set up its own corps of Queensland trackers. This publication looks at the intermittent use of Aboriginal trackers by the VictoriaPolice Force up to the 1880 decision to employ Queensland Aborigines (Murris) on a permanent basis, and the resultant use of these men until 1968. It examines the relationships that existed between the white police and the black trackers over a90 year period, and details many of the cases on which the Murris worked. The book contains a listing of all the Murris employed in the period 1880 to 1968, and provides personal details of a number of these men. Originally published by Victoria Press and distributed by Strategic Australia, the book is now distributed solely by Harriland Press.
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This publication looks in detail at a wide range of 19th century government records created in relation to people either serving in the police force or being charged with a criminal offence, thus either the 'Cops' or the 'Robbers'. of text, printed on superior quality paper, a detailed bibliography, five appendices and a comprehensive name and localities index.
Records covered include: police personnel files, police correspondence, Police Gazettes, Occurrence Books, Watchhouse Books, Petty Sessions Registers, County and Supreme Court Records, appeals against convictions, prison registers etc.
As at March 2009 this book is no longer available, all copies having been sold. Copies are available for perusal at many localand family history libraries throughout Australia.
This biography of 19th century suffragist and lecturer Helen Hart (1839-1908) is the result of over fifteen years research in many archives and libraries throughout Australia, New Zealand and England. It tells the story of a woman who, although unknown today, was so well-known in her time, that over 30 obituaries were published at the time of her death.The bookwas launched on 31st March 2009 by Anna Burke, MHR, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.At the same time,a plaque was unveiled on Hart’s unmarked grave at Boroondara cemetery.
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This microfiche index is an alphabetical listing of children held in various charitable institutions in Victoria between 1860-63,and has been compiled from material held in the files of the Chief Secretary's Office, which are housed at the Public Record Office,North Melbourne repository. The institutions concerned were:
The Immigrants Home, Melbourne
The Melbourne Protestant Orphan Asylum
St. Vincent De Paul Orphanage, South Melbourne
Ballarat Benevolent Asylum
Beechworth Asylum
Bendigo Benevolent Asylum
Castlemaine Benevolent Asylum
Geelong Protestant Orphan Asylum
Geelong Roman Catholic Orphanage.
The information provided on this fiche includes some or all of the following:
Name, birthplace and age of child
Name of institution, date of admission, by whom admitted
Previous residence of child
Details of parents (birthplace/occupation)
To whom child apprenticed.
In many cases the data provided here leads to further sources of information.
In 1864 Industrial Schools were established, and many of the children held in these institutions were transferred to the careof the relevant government department. The Industrial School Registers to 1894 have been indexed by the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies - see their website for details. However the early Registers often contain little detail aboutthe background of the children, and the details on this fiche may supply the missing information.
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During the latter half of the 19th century thousands of men applied to join the Victoria Police Force. In the great majority ofcases these applications were unsuccessful and thus, in theory, the police department has no record of them. In fact however, many of these applications were retained within police correspondence files of the period, and are now held at the Public Record Office of Victoria. Until now this material has been unindexed, and therefore virtually inaccessible.
Microfiche indexes of these applications have now been prepared. The first two Indexes in the Series relate to material found inalarge collection of files, known as VPRS [Victorian Public Record Series] 937, and cover the period from 1853-1893. The applications of over three thousand men were located, from all corners of the world.
The third Index relates to material located in a further two Series of police correspondence files, VPRS 808 and VPRS 1199, which are headed 'Miscellaneous Police Correspondence', and cover the period from 1852-1893. There are over five hundred names in this Index.
The fourth Index relates to material found in a different Series of police correspondence files, VPRS 807, and covers the periodfrom1894-1908. Included within this Series were a number of letters which have been misfiled from the earlier correspondence series (VPRS 937)and date in the 1870s. These applications are included here, because more than 50 of them concern menanxious to join the hunt for the Kelly Gang. This index contains the names of over a thousand people.
The fifth Index differs from the others in that it is a listing of names and any other details given, in the Index and Registers ofInwards Correspondence to Victoria Police, for the period 1909-1918. This Index gives the reference number necessary to access the file within VPRS 807, the actual correspondence files.
Each microfiche Index also contains two alphabetical lists of cross references. The first gives the names of other peoplementioned in the applicants' letters, whether they be relatives, friends or employers. The second list shows the various placesfrom which they wrote, [Canada, New Zealand, New South Wales etc.] and the various topics mentioned in their applications. Many of the men gave their previous and current occupations - some had seen military service in distant countries, others hadserved in other police forces.
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The Victoria Police Gazette commenced in December 1853 and was published weekly by the Victoria Police. The Gazetteswere not available to the public, but were published for the benefit of members of the police force and government officials. Among the information listed in the Gazettes is a section headed Missing Friends. These people were overwhelmingly notcriminals, but merely sought by police in order that old friends, relatives or other government officials could make contactwith them. Many of the entries on the fiche relate to events that occurred up to forty years earlier, and thus can provide vital,and hard to obtain, information about a person's background. One would hardly think to look in a Police Gazette for detailsof an emigrant's arrival in the colony 30-40 years before, or what they might have been doing on the goldfields 20 years before,yet this is precisely the type of information that can sometimes be found in these entries.
The fiche consists of an introduction, which explains how still further details may have survived, an index to over 1,000 names,and a complete transcript of every entry.
See top of this page for details of how to access the research service for this fiche, copies of which are no longer available.
This microfiche index of nearly 10,000 entries lists the name and date of entry of Tasmanians located within the VictoriaPolice Gazette for the period December 1853 to December 1893. A Tasmanian is defined, in this Index, as someone who was either born in Tasmania or spent some time there, whether as a transported convict, a free settler or a brief visitor.
The Gazette entries include:
Deserters from the armed forces, from merchant ships and of wives and children.
People wanted for questioning in relation to various other crimes.
Victims of criminal acts.
Prisoners discharged from either city or country gaols.
Missing Friends - people enquired for by friends or relations
Extracts from Police Gazettes in New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, New Zealand, andoccasionally, overseas countries.
Extracts from the Hobart Town Gazette of escaped convicts and the name of the person to whom they were assigned.
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These microfiche indexes has been compiled from the weekly issues of the Victoria Police Gazette from 1880- 1885, 1886-1890 and 1891-1895. Each contains over 3,000 entries relating to men who deserted their wives and/or families, and women who deserted their children. While the indexes published in the Gazettes only list the name of the offender,these indexes include all names published in each entry.
Details provided in the indexes include the offender's name and, where known, their birthplace, age, occupation, the area in which they had been living, their possible future movements and known relatives. In a number of cases the victim also isnamed, and these entries have also been cross referenced back to the offender.
An additional index of locations is included. Researchers may find this useful when seeking details of the paternity of an illegitimate child. If the birthplace of such a child is known, the locational index can be used to search for a possible matchingentry, as the mother (usually unnamed in the Gazette entry) may have laid charges against the father, at a local court.
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In 1898 Victoria Police took over the administration of the Infant Life Protection Act of 1890, which had been passed inreaction to cases of infanticide and abuse by baby farmers (women who took in babies to nurse). This legislation tightenedcontrols on both mothers and baby farmers. The police department managed the administration of the Act until 1908, andin so doing created a series of records of immense use to family and social historians. Unfortunately there is no survivingindex to the records prior to 1901, making it a difficult task to access them. Those cases found in files for the period 1898-1900have now been placed on a separate web page Infant Life Protection Act Indexes Please note that they are not all the cases, merely the ones found to date.
From 1901, there exist indexes to the correspondence registers, and the registers themselves. This series of microfiche hasbeen compiled from both the indexes and the registers, and gives names, locations and relevant file numbers to enable access to the files themselves. The indexes, registers and files are housed at the Public Record Office, but unfortunately the latterare not always easy to locate, with many not located where they should be. The microfiche also offers a guide to where to look for the files.
Contains over 5,000 entries listing the name and location of women (and the occasional male) who applied to become 'nurses',who renewed their registration or who notified the department of their change of address.
Lists those people who were charged with failing to register the birth of an illegitimate child within the required three days. The legal responsibility to register the child lay with the occupier of the house in which the child was born, rather than the mother, so friends or relatives could be and were charged.
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This list contains two indexes; the names of the children who were given to nurses registered under the Act, and the namesof the nurses and which children they took into their care. A number of the children were the offspring of women from country areas and interstate or overseas (New Zealand), who came to Melbourne to give birth, leave the child with a nurse,then return home with their secret intact.
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Most of the children (although not all) were the illegitimate offspring of working-class mothers, unable to look after babiesthemselves, and amenable to other people adopting their child. This list shows both the child's and the adoptive parents'names. As legal adoption did not commence until 1928, the material in these files is the only way in which these adoptions can be traced.
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Lists those children who died while in the custody of a nurse registered under this Act, and includes those people who wereinvestigated for failing to comply with the Act. These people were sometimes the nurse herself, sometimes relatives or adoptive parents.
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Lists women who were investigated by the police department for taking in children when they were not registered as nurses under this Act; women who applied for an exemption because of extenuating circumstances (such as being a relation of the child)and women whose registration as nurses were cancelled, sometimes at their own request and sometimes because of their treatment of the children under their care.
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This is a listing of people mentioned in the Index and Registers of Victoria Police correspondence, under a heading firstly of'Commonwealth' and, from 1916, under a heading of 'Aliens'. It covers foreign-born people who were obliged to register underthe Aliens Acts of 1914 (Germans, Austrians, Turks) and then 1916 (basically anyone not either British or Australian born).The listing also covers those people who wrote in to complain about various Aliens, or report suspicious happenings. The index includes a location and a nationality cross reference. In all, there are over 7,700 entries.
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Index to Women Lecturers in Victoria 1880-1905
Index to Criminal & Other Case Files A - L
Index to Criminal & Other Case Files M - Z
Index to Employment Applications A - L
Index to Employment Applications M - Z
Index to Victoria Police & Police Stations
Index to Wife & Child Deserters
Infant Life Protection Act Indexes
Theatrical, literary & artistic lives & lies
Updated 2 May 2009. Copyright H.D. Harris. All Rights Reserved.