"This page provides information to assist Care Leavers to locate and access records of their time in out of home care in New South Wales, and adoptees to locate New South Wales adoption records."
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This index will be of interest to those researching chemists, druggists and pharmacists who were registered between 1876 and 1920. It contains 3,000 entries. Search by name, location or year.
Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) is a support group for people who were brought up in 'care': as state wards, foster children or Home children raised in orphanages, Children's Homes, and other institutions, and in foster care. Here you can search for your Home by name or address, or look by state. If you were in one of these Homes, you may be able to make contact with someone you knew or attend reunions.
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The Clarence Valley Council online cemeteries register covers ashes internments and burials within the Clarence Valley. This register will be updated in the months of August and February with new ashes internments and burials plus any amendments/additional information received. The Council also has many historical and private family cemeteries in the Clarence Valley and they also maintain a separate list of these on their website.
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The College of Arms is the official repository of the coats of arms and pedigrees of English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Commonwealth families and their descendants. The College maintains registers of arms, pedigrees, genealogies, Royal Licences, changes of name, and flags and carry out genealogical and heraldic work for clients
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Published by the NSW Department of Community Services this guide to NSW records from 1900 onwards is aimed at helping people separated from their birth families to locate their records. The guide includes : a brief history of child welfare in NSW; a chronology of key events in NSW child welfare; listing of records at NSW Government welfare agencies, non government agencies, public hospitals and NSW Government non-welfare agencies.
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This database from State Records NSW combines six Indexes: Certificates of Freedom, 1823-69; Convict bank Accounts, 1837-70; Tickets of Exemption from Government Labor, 1827-32; Tickets of Leave, Certificates of Emancipation and Pardons, 1810-19; Tickets of Leave, 1810-75 and Ticket of Leave Passports, 1835-69
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A guide to searching for a convict at State Archives NSW includes historical background, a Convict Family History Worksheet and links to online resources. Includes the following indexes: Certificates of freedom, 1823-69; Convict Bank accounts 1837-70; Convict exiles 1849-50; Pardons, 1791-1825, 1837-41; Tickets of exemption from government labour, 1827-32; Tickets of leave, certificates of emancipation and pardons, 1810-1819; Ticket of leave passports, 1835-1869. Index of Bench of Magistrates 1788-1820; Index to (NSW) Quarter Session cases 1824-1837.
Links and information on researching Australian family history including: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; births, deaths and marriage records; child migration, occupations and service personnel records.
University of Leicester digitisation of local and trade directories which include names, addresses and occupations of the inhabitants of counties and towns.
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This map links to Portable Document Format (PDF) files of individual Commonwealth electoral division maps for New South Wales and to an index map of Sydney electoral divisions.
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Contains full-text transcripts of criminal trials, from April 1674 to 1913 held at London's central criminal court. Many convicts sent to Australia were tried at the Old Bailey. The site includes English social history of the period.
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