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Ancestry

• Birmingham, England, Petty Session Registers, 1892-1923
• London, England, University College Hospital and Middlesex Student Records, 1828-1945
• Australia, Victoria, Crown Land Licenses, 1853 and 1856
• Australia, New South Wales, Penrith, Valuation

Ancestry

• UK, Navy Board and Predecessors Prisoner of War Registers, 1755-1831
• UK, Postal Establishment Books, 1691-1979
• UK, World War II Audio, 1939-1945
• Buckinghamshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1971
• Isle of Man, UK, Civil Birth, Marriage

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

The SRO has commenced a project to digitise the Colonial Secretary’s Office records held in the State Archives collection. These records are considered the 'backbone' of WA Colonial history and record a wide range of activities about WA  in the 1800s, correspondence with Colonial

Ancestry

• UK, Recommendations for Honours and Awards, 1935-1943
• UK, WWI Hospital Registers, 1915-1919
• Birmingham, Non-Conformist Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1825-2007
• Ireland, St Peter's, Little Bray, Wicklow, Cemetery Records, 1910-2016
• Australia,

Ancestry

• Select Counties, Scotland, Church of Scotland, Baptisms, 1615-1854
• Select Counties, Scotland, Church of Scotland, Marriages, 1615-1854
• Select Counties, Scotland, Church of Scotland, Burials, 1655-1854
• Dunbartonshire, Scotland, Prison Registers,

Ancestry

• UK, Societies Approved by the National Health Insurance Committee, 1912
• Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2024
• London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
• Kensington and Chelsea, World War II Related Records, 1939-1956
• Ireland,

Ancestry

• 1921 Census (does not include Ireland or Scotland)

• Northern Ireland, Ballymena, Antrim, Headstone Inscriptions, 1671-1996

• 1926 Prairie Census of Canada

• Australia, South Australia, Country Business Directory, 1952-1953

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DUMBLEYUNG AND DISTRICTS: THOSE WHO SERVED

On the 640 pages between the book's colourful A3 covers are the illustrated stories of the men and women who served their country in the armed forces and who have connections with the towns of Dumbleyung, Kukerin and surrounding areas. As Lake Grace