Click below for details of Cora Num's current publications.
Web
Sites Book
Convict
Book
Shipping
Book
Occupational
Book
Book Order
Form
CULLING Joyce, An
Introduction to Occupations: A Preliminary List, Federation
of Family History Societies, Birmingham, 2nd edn, 1999. 64p.
EDWARDS Jack, Out of
the Blue: A History of Reckitt & Colman in Australia,
Reckitt & Colman Australia, Artarmon NSW, 1982. 112p.
LAY Patricia, Clickers,
Spallers and Towzers: Occupations and their Meanings, the
author, Queanbeyan NSW, 1999. 110p.
LATHAM Baldwin, Sanitary
Engineering: A Guide to the Construction of Works of Sewerage
and
House Drainage with Tables for Facilitating the Calculations of the
Engineer, E & F N Spon, London, 1873. 352p. (NLA
628.3 LAT)
McNEICE Roger V, Helmets
and Hatchets: A History of the Hobart Fire Brigade 1883-1983,
State Fire Commission, Hobart, 1983. 238p.
McNEICE Roger V, Men of
Fire: The History of the Launceston Fire Brigade, State
Fire Commission of Tasmania, Hobart, 1987. 222p.
NUM Cora, Occupational
Records in Australia,
the author, Canberra, 2003. 150p. This book has over 90 occupational
categories with references to hundreds of books, microform, CD-ROMs and
Internet sites. It is fully indexed and includes a place index.
PEAKE Andrew, South
Australian History Sources, Gould Books, Modbury SA, 2007.
REYBURN Wallace, Flushed
with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper, Macdonald
& Co, London, 1969. 95p.
WRIGHT Clare, Beyond the
Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans, Melbourne
University Publishing, Melbourne, 2003. 256p.
ST LEON Mark, Wattle in
the Sawdust: The History of Circus in Australia, Mark St
Leon & Associates, Penshurst NSW, 2005-
Volume 1 - Circus in Australia: It’s Origins and Development
to 1856. 374p.
Volume 2 - Circus
in Australia: Index of Show Movements 1833-1969 Circus, Variety, Theatrical,
Musical & Allied Arts. 385p + 1 CD-ROM.
ST LEON Mark, Genealogical Database of Australia's Travelling Showpeople, Gould Genealogy, 2009. CD-ROM.
TWINING Andrew & Sandra, Dictionary
of Old Trades and Occupations, Twining's Secretarial,
Woodcroft SA, 2nd edn, 1995. 107p. This book lists over 1500 trades.
WATERS Colin, A
Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations, Countyside
Books, Newbury BKS, 2002. 320p. This dictionary explains the function
of nearly 4000 old trades, titles and occupations, and contains over 70
illustrations.
Internet Sites
It’s An Honour
for access to the Australian Honours List from 1901.
State Library
of South Australia combined catalogue search including the
South Australiana Database and the Archival Database.
The Manning
Index of South Australian History. This index contains
thousands of references to South Australian newspaper and magazine
articles 1837-1937.
Thomas Crapper
and Company.
Society of Australian Genealogists has an index to Sydney’s Sewerage Plans 1856
and 1867 which lists home owner names. There is also an
online guide to occupations, trades and apprenticeships.
State Library of New South Wales offers online access to digitised Detail Sheets
[Call no. ZM Ser 4 811.17/1] for Sydney and some suburbs produced by
the Surveyor General, 1880s and 1890s.
Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, Melbourne
Sewerage Plans (1890s to 1950s) are available online at the
State Library of Victoria.
Use Googlemaps
satellite images and street view in conjunction with the digitised
sewerage records (above) for a unique way to view of the areas where
your family lived.
State
Records New South Wales
for access to Short
Guide 10 Professions and Occupations plus Archives
in Brief guides nos 19 (teachers), 20
(police), 21 (crew), 61 (publicans), 72 (doctors), 111 (Sewerage
and
Drainage Board detail sheets), 112 (Sydney Harbour Bridge workers),
113 (firefighters), 118 (nurses) and 120 (gold mining).
State Records of New South Wales Photos Investigator, sample selection
of
57 Photographs
of Doctors (1889-1927) who applied for
registration as medical practitioners in New South Wales.
State Library of Queensland family history online resources include databases for miners (1882-1900) and railway employees (1866-1876; 1890-1901).
Australian Society of Archivists with access to the Directory of Archives
in Australia.
Noel Butlin
Archives Centre for access to a wide variety of company records.
Australian
Newspapers service offers access to historic
Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation
Program. This free service currently contains over one million, out of
copyright, newspaper pages from 1803-1954 with new digitised pages being added
each week. Newspapers available include the Advertiser (Adelaide), Argus (Melbourne), Brisbane
Courier, Canberra Times, Courier-Mail (Brisbane), Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, Hobart Town
Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, Maitland Mercury & Hunter River
General Advertiser, Mercury (Hobart), Moreton Bay
Courier, Northern Territory Times, Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal,
South Australian Advertiser, Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
and
the Sydney
Morning Herald.
Papers Past
contains
more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers
and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1932
and includes 52+ publications from all regions of New Zealand.
Web
Sites for Genealogists, Online Publications, Newspapers and
Newspaper indexes.
Digital
Library of Historical Directories (UK) offers searches and
full online text 1750-1919.
Directories
in Australia and New Zealand
Australian
and New Zealand directories have a wide variety of titles, formats,
compilers, publishers and date ranges. Some of the more common
publishers' names appear in the title. The following select list of
these names will help with locating directories in library catalogues.
Australia:
Bradshaw’s, Ford’s, Harris’, J Cox & Co, Moore’s, Waugh
& Cox’s, Waugh’s
New South Wales:
Bailliere’s, Brabazon’s, Bradshaw’s, Cook’s, Cox & Co,
Dehane’s,
Ford’s, Gregory’s, Greville’s, Harris’, J Cox & Co, Low’s,
Moore’s,
Sand’s, Walter Sampsons & Co, Waugh & Co, Wise’s
Northern Territory:
Northern Territory Times Almanac and Directory
Queensland:
Bailliere’s, Blake’s, Meyer’s, Pugh’s, Gregory’s, Slater’s, Verney’s,
Willmetts, Wise’s
South Australia:
Boothby’s, Howell’s, Sands & McDougall’s, Wise’s
Tasmania:
Bailliere’s, Elliston’s, Macphail’s Maning’s, Middleton and Maning’s,
Ross’s, Walch’s, Wise’s, Woods
Victoria:
Bailliere’s, Birtchnell’s, Butler & Brooke’s, Butler &
Steven’s, Kerr’s, Massina’s, Niven’s, Ramsay’s, Sands & Kenny,
Sands & McDougall’s, Wise’s
Western Australia:
Wise's, Western Australian Almanack, Western Australian Post Office
Directory
New Zealand:
Wise’s, Cleave’s and Stone’s
Google Books is a great place to look for historical directories and other research material. They have free full view directories for Australia, the UK, Ireland and elsewhere. You can create your own library of chosen books using a free Gmail email account.
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online features 10,000+ biographies of significant Australians and can be browsed by occupation.
PictureAustralia
offers a single access point
to search for people, places and events in the image
collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives and other collections.
The images available cover all aspects of Australian life including work and work
places.
State
Library of Tasmania - Images Collection for access to the
Apple and Pear case label collection
Parliament of
New South Wales - This site lists the Parliamentary service history and
biographical details of all current and former Members of the Parliament since
the first Legislative Council was constituted in 1824. There are over 2000
former members listed. Click on Resources then Archives
Collection
for access.
Australian
Travelling Entertainers This emerging site by Mark St Leon is
dedicated to Australia's circus history and to travelling entertainers.
Women
of Vision: Index of Nuns of the Catholic Church in Australia
1838-1918.
Trove, hosted by the National Library of
Australia, is a national information portal which includes content from library,
archive and museum collections, university repositories, digitised newspapers,
web archives and online biographical databases. It provides a single point of
access to the resources of the deep web. It includes books, theses, reports,
research articles, maps and audio-visual materials such as photographs,
artworks, postcards, videos, musical sound, sheet music plus much, much
more.
Web Sites
for Genealogists: Occupations with over 75 occupational sites
in 30 categories.
Quirky Book Titles
DEUSHANE Lawrence, Chest to Chest: Bonds Industries, 1915-1990:
A Look at the People Who Have Helped and Who are Helping Build Industry Within
Australia, Bonds Industries Ltd, Wentworthville NSW, 1992. 190p.
HARRIS David, What a line!: The Story of the People who Made the Hoist an Australian Icon: Fifty Years of Hills, Hills Printing Services, Melrose Park, SA, 1996. 206p.
JENNINGS Reece, Barnacles
and Parasites: Independent Members of the South Australian Parliament
1927-1970, Nesfield Press, Plympton SA, 1992. 154p.
McHUGH Siobhan, Minefields
and Miniskirts: Australian Women and the Vietnam War,
Doubleday, Sydney, 1993. 295p.
WILDE Sally, Joined
Across the Water: A History of the Urological Society of Australasia,
Hyland House, South Melbourne, 1999. 229p.
Home
© Cora Num 1997-2010.
Last updated 23 March 2010