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Victoria Business and Occupations

Online Resources

• 1855, 1864-1924 - Victoria, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1855, 1864-1924 at Ancestry.com - index and images ($)

Online Records of New South Wales, Including Victoria Until 1851-1855

• 1787-1976 - New South Wales, Australia, Miscellaneous Records, 1787-1976 - contains agriculture,police, medical, pharmacy board, mine and examinations division records, images ($)
• 1903-1922 - Business and Company Records, 1903 to 1922 at NSW Archives, index

Bankruptcy and Insolvency

• 1842-1887 - Insolvency Index 1842-1887, at NSW Archives, index.
• 1888-1929 - Bankruptcy Index 1888-1929, at NSW Archives, index.

Licensing

• 1841-1842 - Licensing, 1841-1842 at FamilySearch, images.
• 1855-1861 - Licensing, 1855-1861 at FamilySearch, images.
• 1866-1900 - Lists of publicans' licenses issued, 1866-1900 at FamilySearch, images.

Police Gazettes (including news of business licenses)

Pub owners, butchers, lumberjacks, auctioneers, or other professionals had to be licensed. Licenses were granted by the courts, and notices were then published in the Government/Police Gazette.

• New South Wales Police Gazette at FindMyPast, ($), index.
• New South Wales Government Gazettes, at MyHeritage, index ($), various years.
• 1853-1899 - New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899 at Ancestry ($), index and images.
• 1854-1930 - New South Wales, Australia, Police Gazettes at Ancestry; index & images ($). Also at FamilySearch, free.

Occupations

• Merchant Maine Records at FamilySearch.
• The law list of Australasia at FamilySearch, images.
• 1824-1876 - Barristers and solicitors 1824-1876 at FamilySearch, images.
• 1830-1861 - Publicans’ Licenses Index 1830-1861, at NSW Archives, index.
• 1847-1885: New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Police Employment at Ancestry; index & images ($)
• 1850-1860 - New South Wales, Teacher Applications and School Records, 1850-1960, at Ancestry ($), index and images.
• 1852-1913 - Police Service Registers 1852-1913, at NSW Archives, index.
• 1856-1917 - Railway Employment Records 1856-1917, at NSW Archives, index.
• 1856-1890, 1909-1932 - New South Wales, Railway Employment Records at FindMyPast ($), index.
• 1858-1960: New South Wales, Australia, Public Service Lists at Ancestry; index & images ($)
• 1859-1936 - New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Seamen, 1859-1936, at Ancestry ($), index and images.
• 1869-1908 - School Teachers’ rolls 1869-1908, at NSW Archives, index.
• 1876-1920 - Chemists, Druggists and Pharmacists Index 1876-1920, at NSW Archives, index.
• 1879-1911 - Tramway Employees, 1879 to 1911, at NSW Archives, index.
• 1885-1979 - The price paid for silver and lead : an account of the men killed on the Line of Lode and surrounding mines from 1885 to 1979 at FamilySearch, images.
• 1914-1919: Australia, Military Commemorative Rolls & Rolls Of Honour at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• 1926-1954 - Nurses index 1926-1954, at NSW Archives, index.

Archive Resources Kit

• Community Access Points A list of libraries and archives which hold the microform copies of the Archive Resources Kit records.
  
• The Archive Resources Kit includes the following Professions and occupations records:

Returns of the Colony (Blue Books), 1822-57

Record of Appointments to Government Offices, 1814-25

Roll of barristers, solicitors, attorneys, etc, 1824-76

Medical Board Minutes of proceedings and register, 1838-1901

Certificates of publicans' licences, 1830-61

"The ARK is held by 40 community access points across NSW. The majority of access points are libraries. The ARK consists of microfilm copies of our most popular and heavily used colonial records. Included are records relating to convict arrivals, assisted immigrants, births, deaths and marriages, publicans' licences, electoral rolls, naturalisation, returns of the colony ('Blue Books'), land grants, and the wide range of functions of the Colonial Secretary (1788-1825). You may find that the ARK (or parts of it) are held at a library near you."

For Further Reading

FamilySearch Library

Additional sources are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

• Australia, Victoria - Business records and commerce
• Australia, Victoria - Occupations
• Australia, Victoria - Occupations - History
• Australia, Victoria - Occupations - Indexes
• Australia, Victoria - Officials and employees

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