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PUBLICATIONS:
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.
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OF PRINT
Helen Hart
'Founder of Women's Suffrage in Australasia'
NEW !!
MICROFICHE:25%
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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 4.
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
ABORIGINAL
MELBOURNE: THE LOST LAND OF THE KULIN PEOPLE
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FIRST
RESIDENTS OF MELBOURNE’S WESTERN REGION (Revised Edition)
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FOR GOD’S
SAKE SEND THE TRACKERS … A HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND TRACKERS AND VICTORIA POLICE.
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By Helen D.
Harris and Gary Presland
HELEN HART
‘FOUNDER OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE IN AUSTRALASIA’.
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Microfiche:
INDEX TO
CHILDREN IN VICTORIAN INSTITUTIONS 1860-1863.
The
Immigrants Home, Melbourne
Melbourne
Protestant Orphan Asylum
St. Vincent
De Paul Orphanage, South Melbourne
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
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INDEX TO
CANDIDATES FOR THE VICTORIAN POLICE
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INDEX TO TASMANIANS IN THE VICTORIA POLICE GAZETTE
1853-1893
Compiled by Helen D. Harris OAM
This microfiche index of nearly
10,000 entries lists the name and date of entry of Tasmanians located within
the pages of the Victoria Police Gazette
from its commencement in December 1853, to December 1893. A Tasmanian is defined, in this Index, as
someone who was either born there, 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 from other
States,
Extracts from the Hobart Town Gazette of escaped convicts
and the name of the person to whom they were assigned.
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INDEX TO DESERTERS OF WIVES AND CHILDREN
– 1880-1885; 1886-1890; 1891-1895
Compiled by
Helen D. Harris OAM.
These microfiche
indexes have been compiled from the weekly issues of the Victoria Police Gazette for the years listed above. Each index 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, and occupation; the area in which they had
been living; their possible future movements, and known relatives. In a number of cases the victim also is
named, and these entries have 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 matching entry, as the mother (usually unnamed in the Gazette entry) may have laid charges
against the father at a local court.
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INFANT LIFE PROTECTION ACT, 1890
Compiled by Helen D. Harris OAM
In 1898 Victoria Police took over the administration
of the Infant Life Protection Act, first passed in 1890, in reaction to cases
of infanticide and abuse by baby farmers (women who took in babies to
nurse). This legislation tightened
controls on both mothers and baby farmers.
The police department managed the administration of the Act until 1908,
and in so doing creased a series of records of immense use to family and social
historians. Unfortunately there is no
surviving index to the records prior to 1901, making it a difficult task to
access them. Those cases I have come
across in files, while researching, have been placed on a separate web page Infant Life Protection Act Indexes ,
but they are nowhere near complete, merely the ones found to date.
From 1901, there exist
indexes to the correspondence registers, and the registers themselves. This series of microfiche has been compiled
from both these sources, the indexes and the registers, and gives names,
locations and relevant file numbers, to enable access to the files
themselves. These files are housed at
the Public Record Office. The microfiche offers a guide to where the files
should be, but unfortunately they are not always easy to locate, with many not
housed in relevant Units.
ILPA PART ONE – THE NURSES, 1901-1908
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.
ILPA PART TWO – ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS
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.
ILPA PART THREE – CHILDREN AND THEIR
NURSES
This list contains two
indexes – the names of the children who were given to nurses registered under
the Act, and the names of 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 (
ILPA PART FOUR – ADOPTIONS
Most of the children
(although not all) were illegitimate offspring of working-class mothers, unable
to look after babies themselves, 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.
ILPA PART FIVE – DEATHS
Lists those children who
died while in the custody of a nurse registered under this Act, and includes those people who were investigated for failing to
comply with the Act. These people were
sometimes the nurse herself, sometimes relatives or adoptive parents.
ILPA PART SIX NURSES - MISCELLANEOUS
Lists women who were
investigated by the police department for taking in children when they were no
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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ALIENS INDEX 1814 – 1918
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 under the Aliens Acts of 1914 (Germans, Austrians,
Turks) and then in 1916 (basically anyone not either British or Australian
born). The listing also covers those
people who wrote in to complain bout 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 Missing people A - L
Index to Missing people M - Z
Index to Victoria Police
& Police Stations
Index
to Criminal & Other Case Files A - L
Index to Criminal & Other
Case Files M -Z
Infant Life Protection Act
Indexes
Theatrical, literary &
artistic lives & lies
Index to Employment Applications A - L
Index to Employment Applications M - Z