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 so they could be found, much the same as a phone book but not all people ended up in the directory and so I suspect it was by subscription. Sands also did a directory and there were other directories at different times. Kathy Pearson typed up the full 1872 Greville's directory over a period of about a year and sent it as hundreds of emails to a newsgroup. I collected them all. It seemed such a shame for it to be not all together and set out nicely. So I got Kathy's permission to set them up on my website for all to see and search. I just set up the web pages - Kathy did all the hard work. |
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Many people have copied or used Kathy's work on their webpage - some have acknowledged that Kathy did all the work.. Rest assured that if you find a reference to Greville's 1872 Post Office directory it is 99% sure that Kathy Pearson typed it up for you. Send her your thanks via me or search the archives of soc.genealogy.aust+nz newsgroup and send them to Kathy. I can take no credit for the typing - Kathy did all that - I just displayed it - which meant I copied and pasted in a web page an email for every town listed, I then formatted and set it up in a server. Kathy did all the work of typing. |
Search pageThese pages contains transcripts of newspapers, a postal directory and a register that have been typed up from the original. I have no further information than what is on these pages. You may find microfische of the originals at your local or state library
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This page was last updated Friday, 11 April 2008
The NSW Geographical Names Board 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.