HEADLINES OF OLD: May 2023

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

AUSTRALIA'S FIRST PRINTERS.. Sydney Convicts Trove Tuesday 30 May 2023

Hand Press Printer

Australia has an interesting history re printing. With a new colony hungry for news, there was a great need for some form of shared communication. Though not all could read, written news was soon shared by those who could.

We take for granted our various means of communication and would be lost without it. Thanks to George Howe and others like him, the new settlement of Sydney was able to learn more about the brave new world as well as getting some news from their homeland. You can click on the images to enlarge or go to the highlighted link to read the original article.

Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Saturday 20 May 1933, page 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228893913

EB1911_Printing_-_Stanhope_Iron_Hand-press

Ruthven_printing_press_schematic

New_South_Wales_General_Standing_Orders George Howe

Further information...

Printing in 19th Century Australia

George Howe

The Sydney Gazette: 1803-1842

Sydney Gazette Article

Impact in New South Wales

Other Australian Printing Presses

Printing Press Technology

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

CONVICTS.. varied notices Trove Tuesday 23rd May 2023

The following notices all refer to convicts transported to Australia.

We who have convict ancestors are fortunate in that there are numerous sites that can help us in our searches. Some of the most helpful are in Tasmania and New South Wales.

If you are searching, you will find numerous references to earlier posts about convicts by using the search bar at the end of each page of my blog.

Feel free to share some of your own stories, you just might find yet more cousins or researchers looking for the same person.

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Friday 8 March 1850 (No.31), page 36 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228774938

Tickets of Leave

Cancelled with reason..

Reference to Cost to Convicts Families to be reunited.

http://www.maritimetas.org/copyright-notice

Families of Convicts

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Tuesday 27 April 1852 (No.42), http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230659057

Tickets of Leave Cancelled.

28 Sept 1852 NSW Govt Gazette (No. 94) page 1432 National Library Aust.

Well worth reading...

Change re Costs to Families.

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Thursday 27 January 1853 (No.10) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229114963

Tickets of Leave.

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Friday 21 July 1854 (No.88) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229759721

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Tuesday 28 November 1854 (No.146), http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229762243

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

CERTIFICATES OF NATURALISATION Trove Tuesday 9th May 2023

These are a selection of notices over various months, and states published in the Commonwealth of Australia gazette. Each page may have several dates.

You can click on the image to enlarge or click the link to go to the original. These notices include the address that the person mentioned was living at when the certificate was granted.

Where these posts can help is by looking for electoral rolls, newspapers, and maybe even cemeteries to see where your 'lost' people were living at various times.

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 - 1973), Thursday 28 March 1935 (No.17), page 469 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232612276

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 - 1973), Thursday 21 February 1935 (No.10), page 245 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232611514

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 - 1973), Thursday 13 June 1968 (No.53), page 3261 article241056859 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241056859

Tuesday, 2 May 2023

STRANGE STORIES Trove Tuesday 2nd May 2023

While researching for this week's subject, I came across a number of very strange stories. Some made me want to work out how they could possibly be true, others made me wonder why, while even more simply made me laugh.

So, here we are.. I hope you enjoy this change from the serious and hopefully informative weekly posts. As always, you can click on the link to see the original, or click on the image to see full size.. Enjoy.