What is Greville's?

Back in 1872 they didn't have phone books but they did have post office directories - people had a listing that could be found so they could be found. Sands also did a directory and there were other directories.

Kathy Pearson typed up the full 1872 Greville's directory over a period of about a year and sent it as an email to a newsgroup. I collected them all and displayed them - Kathy did all the hard work. I just set up the web pages.

Click on a letter below to go to a list of towns commencing with that letter:

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Many of the towns are not spelt the way they are spelt now and you may need to be creative in how you look for them eg:
Coramundra = Cootamundra
Toolegoa - Toolijooa (Gerringong)
(note from Helen)

Liz Haddon (a Malloy cousin) has the following hints when looking for towns.

Liz was the secretary of the Geographical Names Board which has a searchable site at http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/survey_mapping/geographical_names_register
and previous "discontinued" names are also in their database.

One other thing: What is now considered one place - e.g. Bathurst - is covered as several places in Greville's, so (of what you have done so far) I also need to look at Evans Plains, Dunkeld, Black Springs, Caloola, Eglinton, Glanmire, Fish River creek - and no doubt more, such as Kelso.

You can also earch for Australian place names in the Gazetteer of Australia which is a compilation of over 274,000 geographic names in Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia

*NOTE: Remember that these are copied directly from printed lists. If there are transcription errors, they would have occurred in the original transcription by the publishers from handwritten lists, probably compiled and submitted by local postal employees of the time. I imagine that the "Fregaskis" in this list (Obley) could well have been "TREGASKIS", but because of the nature of my role as transcriber, I feel that I am obligated to copy what is actually printed in the original document. After all, who am I to say that such a name as "FREGASKIS" didn't exist?

The only amendments of this type that I have made have been in the case of my own ancestor James COLLEY of Lawrence, whose names was listed as COLLY, and the YABSLEY family of Coraki, who were listed as YALSLEY. There was one address in Clarence Town too, but I mentioned that at the time, and the reason for the change.

So, if you're looking for someone and they're not where you think they should be, try looking for them under possible variations of their names, or go through the whole town list and surrounding towns, and you might spot them with their name misspelt.

Of course, having said all that, it doesn't rule out the occasional typing error that I'm sure must slip through now and then. KP

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