Search Results for: Mooroolbark, Victoria

1. Lowe Kong Meng and Chinese Engagement in the International Trade of Colonial Victoria

   Written by Provenance on October 31, 2012

   Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 11, 2012.ISSN 1832-2522. Copyright © Paul Macgregor. by Paul Macgregor Paul Macgregor is an historian who is the convenor of the Melbourne Chinese Studies Group, and was the curator of Melbourne’s Museum of Chinese Australian History from 1990 to 2005. He is the editor of Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific (1995), and joint editor of both Chinese in Oc…

2. The Crown and Kangaroo Victorian Flags

   Written by Provenance on October 29, 2012

   Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 11, 2012.ISSN 1832-2522. Copyright © John Rogers. by John Rogers John Rogers is the co-founder and president of Friends of the Cerberus, a not for profit community group campaigning to save the breastwork monitor warship, HMVS Cerberus, in Port Phillip Bay. John has heavily researched the career of Cerberus and the other vessels and men of Victoria’s colonial naval forces. With…

3. ‘In future, only female teachers’:

   Written by Provenance on October 29, 2012

   Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 11, 2012.ISSN 1832-2522. Copyright © Felicity Jensz. by Felicity Jensz Dr Felicity Jensz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’ at the Westfälische Wilhelms‑Universität Münster, Germany and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she obtained her PhD. Her research focuses upon th…

4. PROVguide 33: Police Records

   Written by Reading_Room on April 24, 2012

   Courts and Criminal Justice – Police Records Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) holds a range of records relating to police in the State of Victoria.  In 1853, following a Legislative Council Select Committee inquiry, a single integrated Victoria Police VA 724 was established under the control of the Chief Commissioner of Police.  The majority of records PROV holds about Police in Victoria from that time to the current day can be found in the…

5. PROVguide 31: Looking for a person?

   Written by Reading_Room on May 27, 2013

   …artments and authorities, the State’s courts, municipal councils, schools, public hospitals and other public offices.  The records date from the establishment of Government Administration in the Port Phillip District in 1836 and include information relating to areas of activity managed or regulated by government such as the administration of justice, health and welfare, education, Indigenous communities, planning, transport, land, immigrati…

6. PROVguide 6: Property and Building Research

   Written by Reading_Room on April 24, 2012

   …rties.  To access detailed information about records referred to in this PROVguide you can consult pages on PROV’s online catalogue through the hyperlinks in each section.        Example record An excerpt from an 1856 rate book record from the Victorian town of Belfast, now known as Port Fairy. PROV, VPRS 12979/P1 Rate Books, Unit 1. Locating a property Parish and township plans Created by the Victorian Lands Department, parish and t…

7. PROVguide 6: Property Research

   Written by Reading_Room on May 29, 2012

   …into properties.  To access detailed information about records referred to in this PROVguide you can consult pages on PROV’s online catalogue through the hyperlinks in each section.  Example record An excerpt from an 1856 rate book record from the Victorian town of Belfast, now known as Port Fairy. PROV, VPRS 12979/P1 Rate Books, Unit 1. Locating a property Parish and township plans Created by the Victorian Lands Department, parish and t…

8. Mud, Sludge and Town Water:

   Written by Provenance on October 31, 2012

   Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 11, 2012.ISSN 1832-2522. Copyright © Elizabeth Denny. by Elizabeth Denny Elizabeth Denny studied Chinese history and Chinese language in Melbourne and spent a year at the Beijing Language Institute in 1979. After teaching in inner‑city Melbourne, she moved to Ballarat where she has become fascinated by the local records of early Chinese communities on the goldfields.Email author…

9. Pathway 3: Koorie People and Places

   Written by Reading_Room on August 8, 2012

   …PROV. Family History at PROV PROVguide 65 Koorie Family History Research at PROV provides information about the main records used by Koorie people to research family history at PROV. Some records about Aboriginal people, from 1838 – 1851, are available on microfilm in our Reading Rooms.  You can also access a range of online resources such as PROV’s Births Deaths and Marriages Index, and Inquest Index in our Reading Rooms. Researching Koorie Hist…

10. Kellys called on to surrender

    Written by Digital_Projects on September 6, 2011

    VPRS 4969 Consignment P0 Unit 1 Item 61 Record 1 Document: Government Gazette: Kellys called on to surrender 04/11/1878 Overview The Felons Apprehension Act mentioned in this formal notice was hastily passed by Parliament on 31 October 1878 upon hearing the news of the Stringy Bark Creek murders five days earlier. The act introduced the concept of outlawry to Australia. Anyone who had a warrant issued against them under this act had the normal p…