Trove Tuesday - Pusells Gazetted

I haven't done any serious searching for my Pusell line on Trove since the Government Gazettes came on line. For this TroveTuesday post I decided to go looking.

The Pusell mob got quite a few mentions some of which I'll share here . The earliest is for a land lease in Rockley, NSW for my convict ancestor,  James Pusell.

James Pusell and his wife Maria Tucker who were my Great-Great Grandparents had a lot of children to feed!

1875 'Apprehensions.', New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930), 14 July, p. 208. , viewed 24 Sep 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article252088065

My Great-Grandfather, James Pusell, found himself in a similar situation. 

1891 'Apprehensions, &c.', New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930), 4 November, p. 374. , viewed 24 Sep 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251638923

Great-Uncle Bill also found himself on the wrong side of the law.

1913 'First Offienders Discharged under Crimes Act of 1900.', New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930), 19 March, p. 130. , viewed 24 Sep 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251644528

It seems as though Great-Uncle Dick wasn't faring too well in 1920.

1920 'IN BANKRUPTCY.', Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001), 3 September, p. 5275. , viewed 24 Sep 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224610884

These few snippets demonstrate the value of using Government Gazettes for family history research. These references have provided contemporary confirmation of Names, Places, Dates and Activities of my ancestors.

Trove Tuesday - A lightbulb moment

This morning while listening to a webinar on Government Employees hosted by State Records NSW I had a lightbulb moment.

For several years I have been interested in my Great-Great Grandmother's brother, Rev. Michael Harrington Ryan. I have previously searched Trove and British and Irish newspapers for mention of this chap and have looked at resources in The National Library of Australia and the National Library in Dublin, Ireland. I have gathered quite a bit of information on his life but, as one day I want to tell his story, I want more.

When John Cann was talking about Government Records in the webinar I recalled that M H Ryan had some Government appointments to penal colonies under the jurisdiction of NSW and gaols in NSW. John mentioned that keyword searches in Trove will return results from the NSW Government Gazette. Now I haven't done any Trove searches on the good Reverend since the Gazettes became available. So what did I do? I ditched my task of editing and distributing minutes of a Family History Group and fired up Trove.

I have tagged several articles in Trove with M H Ryan's name but I prefer Lists because I find them easier to find through searches. As I didn't have a list I set up a new one for Michael Harrington Ryan which I have made Private for the moment. I was then ready to search.

Was the hunt successful?

It certainly was although I had to use a range of search terms to find articles. I had previously found reports of some of these events in Trove newspapers but many of the results I found today are news to me and will add more to the story of my great (x2) grand-uncle.

Below are just some of the snippets I found relating to Michael Harrington Ryan.

1872 'Index page', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 31 December, p. xxvi. , viewed 27 Aug 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225844670

1877 'Government Gazette Notices', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 30 January, p. 451. , viewed 27 Aug 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223127406

1877 'Government Gazette Appointments and Employment', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 27 July, p. 2869. , viewed 27 Aug 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223536564

1879 'Government Gazette Appointments and Employment', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 4 February, p. 473. , viewed 27 Aug 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223657987

1879 'Government Gazette Appointments and Employment', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 7 February, p. 528. , viewed 27 Aug 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223658141

Government Gazette Appointments and Employment (1883, July 20). New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), p. 3903. Retrieved August 27, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221655477

1887 'In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 15 November, p. 7682. , viewed 27 Aug 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219929328

Trove Tuesday - Mining the Government Gazettes

Recently added to Trove were the Digitised copies of the Government Gazettes for New South Wales from 1832 to 2001. As these are goldmines of genealogical data I thought I'd see what sort of information I could glean on my Pusell ancestors and cousins, It's a very simple search as I think most Pusells in Australia descend from my convict ancestor James. 

The examples below from 1868-1987 show how useful the Gazettes are to the family historian.

1868 'APPROVED CLAIMS FOR PRE-EMPTIVE LEASES.', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 15 July, p. 2095. , viewed 22 Nov 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225723891

The following are links to long lists of names that include Pusell.

1885 'In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 30 October, p. 7077. , viewed 22 Nov 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219880784

1920 'IN BANKRUPTCY.', Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001), 17 September, p. 5596. , viewed 22 Nov 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224611413

1925 'IN BANKRUPTCY.', Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001), 6 March, p. 1330. , viewed 22 Nov 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223029471

1951 'Government Gazette Appointments and Employment', Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001), 10 August, p. 2335. , viewed 22 Nov 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220008797

1968 'NOTICE APPOINTING TRUSTEES UNDER THE COMMONS REGULATION ACT, 1898.—PROCLAMATION', Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001), 26 January, p. 351. , viewed 22 Nov 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219986993

The following are links to long lists of names that include Pusell.

For some different examples see my TroveTuesday post for The Hornsby Shire Family HIstory Group. 

Trove Tuesday - Welcome Back Trove

After a couple of days offline our national treasure, Trove, is back on line with some beaut new features, an updated look in the newspaper area and one major new resource that has yielded quite a few snippets of information on family members.

Covering the period from 1832-2000 the New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900) and Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001)  provide full text of :

• Government Gazette Notices
• Government Gazette Private Notices
• Government Gazette Proclamations And Legislation
• Government Gazette Appointments And Employment 
• Government Gazette Tenders And Contracts 
• Government Gazette Index And Contents
• Government Gazette Budgetary Papers Government Gazette 
• Freedom Of Information
• and probably some other cateories I have missed.

I carried out some preliminary searches to see what I could turn up for family members although I cannot find any results prior to 1880 (must check further to see what the actual coverage is).

Firstly I searched for Pusell  a family name and I came up with 12 hits, one of which was very promising while the others added snippets of information to build out the profiles of family members. The James Pusell mentioned in the following is my great-grandfather or great-great-grandfather. I need to chase up the probate file to see what I can find.

1885 'In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 30 October, p. 7077. , viewed 29 Feb 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219880784

My next search was for Tierney, another family name, with Dungog (the town). I got 78 hits which I was able to narrow down to the time my ancestors were living in Dungog. I looked at these decade by decade and found a couple of things to add to my great-great-grandfather's  story. I need to play around more with searches for this branch of the family.

I did a simple search for the word Curry, the surname which is the subject of my surname study. I will need to narrow down the 1,903 hits I got for this term and slowly work through the results.  The first page of hits promises to be most useful:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/gazette/result?q=curry&l-state=New+South+Wales (accessed 29 February 2016)

There is an over abundance of Treasure for me on Trove and quite a bit of text to correct!