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Every family has its secrets, and they are often revealed in The Police Gazette of Western Australia (1876 onwards), a valuable resource for researching people, police and criminals in Western Australia.

Information can be found under various headings:

• apprehensions (name of person

From the April 2025 issue of SROWA News - Djeran 

The SRO has commenced a long-term project to catalogue all criminal trials that were held in the Court of Quarter Sessions / Supreme Court of WA for the period 1830-1947.
 
This work is part of a larger, ongoing activity to

When searching for details about a West Australian teacher, I stumbled across a small cache of gold on the Carnamah Historical Society website that deserves mentioning.

They have produced the following databases and made them freely available online. 

Have a rummage through HERE

Thanks, Marcia Watson, for alerting us to the GLAM Workbench. It’s revealed that my paternal great-grandfather was a feminist! In 1894, he signed the South Australian Women’s

The Enrolled Pensioner Guards (EPGs) who arrived on the 1863 Lord Dalhousie, built in 1847 had previously been employed as a

Martin Byrne born 1809 in Ireland. In 1831 working as a servant, he joined the 84th Regiment at Dublin. 5’7” with brown hair he served 21 years including 11 years in West Indies and India. He was discharged 1852

Initially developed by Steve Howell, in his capacity as the State Library's WA History Specialist, Dead Reckoning remains relevant to all family history researchers endeavouring to understand and access West Australian records.

Examples of EPG uniform seen in Western Australia

The EPG group has compiled a guide to researching Western Australian Enrolled Pensioner Guards and their families.

The

The Enrolled Pensioner Guard Group is working to collect comprehensive details about the 37 ships which arrived in WA carrying convicts and the guards who were employed to watch over them.

The website includes biographical details