New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Police Employment, 1847-1885

Source Information

Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Police Employment, 1847-1885 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
Original data: Registers of Police, 1862-1904. Series 10945, State Records Fiche 846-850. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.

© the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales and is used under licence with the permission of the State Records Authority. The State of New South Wales gives no warranty regarding the data's accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose.

About New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Police Employment, 1847-1885

This is a registry of police officers appointed in New South Wales from 1847 to 1885. The register contains many different pieces of information on each police officer in New South Wales over those 38 years. The actual register was published from 1862 to 1904. The register kept track of whether the officer was mounted or on foot, his physical description, marital status, previous occupation and education, and police business, such as promotions and appointments or discharges. Information is arranged chronologically within each letter of the alphabet.

The register includes:

  • Name
  • Rank
  • Date of appointment to each rank
  • Age
  • Physical description
  • Marital status
  • Country
  • Religion
  • Education
  • Previous occupation
  • Where stationed

The register also may contain:

  • Demotion
  • Discharge
  • Death
  • Superannuation
  • Transfer