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NSW Police Gazette weekly, commenced 1856, masthead. Photo: Peter de Waal
NSW Police Gazette weekly, commenced 1856,
masthead. Photo: Peter de Waal

Notes for Readers

•   Names in this inventory are spelled as they were first found.
•   If subsequent entries had a different spelling these are preceded by aka.
•   Offenders often had aliases; these have been entered as aka and indexed separately.
•   Names were frequently misspelled and have been entered as found.
•   If multiple offenders were involved in one NSWPG entry the sequence of their names has been entered as found and are separated by a semi-colon.
•   Offences in (brackets) are those subsequently found with prisoner’s trial or discharge details if different from the original apprehension charge.
•   Trial dates found in ‘returns of prisoners tried’ tables and those in ‘prisoners discharged’ tables often vary. The latter tables usually included the more accurate dates and hence have been included where possible.
•   For multiple offenders when trial dates, sentence &c, are the same only one set of details is entered.
•   The dates entered for the NSWPG, in the ‘Trial/Charge date’ column, are the NSWPG issue dates for that publication. If, however, a trial date is mentioned in the NSWPG then that will be entered and the issue in which these details are found are placed after ‘PG’ and before the issue number.
•   The early NSWPG issues did not have exact discharge dates for prisoners released from prison. Instead it states ‘released since last publication’. To provide an estimate of the prisoner’s date of prison discharge the previous NSWPG issue date preceded by (since), has been used. Template NSWPG entries have been left blank where no data were provided or a question mark entered where data unavailable or uncertain.
•   Sources: SRNSW: NRS10957, [1/3356-1/3357] , Reports of crime etc. for police information, 1856-61, R3128-3129. SRNSW: NRS10958, [1/3197-1/3234], Police Gazette, NSW, 1862-1899, R3129-3143. SRNSW: NRS10958, [1/3235-1/3265], Police Gazette, NSW, 1900-1930, R3594-3606.

  1. Abbreviations

 

 

A – Acquitted
Absc – Absconding/Absconded
AC – Attempt(ed) to commit
Acc – Accumulative(ly)
Adl – Adelaide
AG – Attorney General
A/J – Acting Judge/Justice
aka – Also known as
AIC – Assault with intent to commit
AlG – Albury Gaol
ArG – Armidale Gaol

BACM – Brookfield Afforestation Camp,
    Mila

BACMT – Brookfield Afforestation Camp,  
    Mannus via Tumbarumba

BB – Bathurst Bench
Be – Bestiality
BeG – Berrima Gaol
BG – Bathurst Gaol
BGD – Bathurst Gaol Delivery
BiG – Biloela Gaol
BM – Bench of Magistrates
BoG – Bourke Gaol
Botaan – Bound over to appear at (the)
    next

Botawcu – Bound over to appear when/if
    called upon

Botcufs – Bound over to come up for
    sentence

BrG – Braidwood Gaol
BroG – Broken Hill Gaol
Bu – Buggery

CAC – Criminal Appeal Court
CaG – Casino Gaol
CC – Circuit Court
CCAl – Circuit Court Albury
CCAr – Circuit Court Armidale
CCB – Circuit Court Bathurst
CCBro – Circuit Court Broken Hill
CCBu – Circuit Court Bundaberg
CCCo – Circuit Court Cootamundra
CCDe – Circuit Court Deniliquin
CCDu – Circuit Court Dubbo
CCG – Circuit Court Goulburn
CCGr – Circuit Court Grafton
CCH – Circuit Court Hay
CCL – Circuit Court Lismore
CCMa – Circuit Court Maitland
CCMu – Circuit Court Mudgee
CCN – Circuit Court Newcastle
CCPC – Cowan Creek Prison Camp
CCSil – Circuit Court Silverton
CCT – Circuit Court Tamworth
CCWW – Circuit Court Wagga Wagga
CCY – Circuit Court Yass
CCYo – Circuit Court Young
CCJ – Court of Criminal Jurisdiction
CG – Comptroller General of Prisons
CJ – Chief Judge/Justice
COD – Copy of document
CofC – County of Cumberland
C(c)on – Concurrent(ly)
Const(s) – Constable(s)
CPB – Central Police Bench
C’sCS – Children’s Court, Sydney
CTA – Campbell Town Assizes
Cum – Cumulative

DeG – Deniliquin Gaol
Deps – Depositions
Det(s) – Detective(s)
DG/SG – Darlinghurst/Sydney Gaol
    Documents unavailable shown thus:
    CP T137 537

DuG – Dubbo Gaol

E(e) – East
E/£ – Exposing his/her person
EPPF – Emu Plains Prison Farm

FoG – Forbes Gaol
FOPA – First Offenders Probation
    Act, 1894

G/g – Guilty
GG – Goulburn Gaol
GrG – Grafton Gaol
GunG – Gunnedah Gaol

HG – Hay Gaol
HiG – Hillston Gaol
hl – Hard Labour

 

I/a(s) – Indecent(ly) assault(ing) (s)
I/a UMP – Indecent assault upon a
    male person

I/b(s) – Indecent behaviour(s)
I/e(s) – Indecent exposure(s)
I/m – Indecent manner
imp – Imprisonment
Insp – Inspector

J – Judge/Justice
JA – Judge Advocate

las – Lashes

MaG – Maitland Gaol
MCVB – Military Court, Victoria Barracks
Mel – Melbourne (Vic)
mth(s) – month(s)
MuG – Mudgee Gaol

N(n) – North
NAA – National Archives of Australia
NaG – Narrabri Gaol
NeG – Newcastle Gaol
NG/ng – Not guilty
NI – Norfolk Island
NP – Nolle Prosequi
NSWGG – NSW Government Gazette
NZ – New Zealand

Oad – Offending against decency
O/b – Obscene behaviour
OG – Orange Gaol
O/l – Obscene language

P/p – Plea(ded)
PACGI – Prisoner’s Afforestation Camp
    Glen
 Innes
PACMM  – Prisoners’ Afforestation Camp.
    Mount
 Mitchell
PACT – Prison Afforestation Camp, Tuncurry
PACTa – Prisoner’s Afforestation Camp
    Taree

PaG – Parramatta Gaol
PC – Police Court
PECI – Penal Establishment Cockatoo Island
PG – NSW Police Gazette
PMG – Port Macquarie Gaol
PO – Police Office
PS/ps – Penal Servitude
Ptn – Postponed (to, till, until) next

Qld – Queensland
QPG – Queensland Police Gazette
QG – Queanbeyan Gaol
QS – Quarter Sessions
QSA – Queensland State Archives
QSAl – Quarter Sessions Albury
QSAr – Quarter Sessions Armidale
QSB – Quarter Sessions Bathurst
QSBe – Quarter Sessions Bega
QSBi – Quarter Sessions Bingara
QSBo – Quarter Sessions Bourke
QSBom – Quarter Sessions Bombala
QSBr – Quarter Sessions Braidwood
QSBro – Quarter Sessions Broken Hill
QSCa – Quarter Sessions Campbelltown
QSCas – Quarter Sessions Casino
QSCo – Quarter Sessions Cooma
QSCob – Quarter Sessions Cobar
QSCon – Quarter Sessions Condobolin
QSCoo – Quarter Sessions Coonamble
QSCoon – Quarter Sessions Coonabarabran
QSCot – Quarter Sessions Cootamundra
QSCow – Quarter Sessions Cowra
QSDe – Quarter Sessions Deniliquin
QSDu – Quarter Sessions Dubbo
QSFo – Quarter Sessions Forbes
QSG – Quarter Sessions Goulburn
QSGI – Quarter Sessions Glen Innes
QSGr – Quarter Sessions Grafton
QSGu – Quarter Sessions Gundagai
QSGun – Quarter Sessions Gunnedah
QSHa – Quarter Sessions Hay
QSHi – Quarter Sessions Hillston
QSIn – Quarter Sessions Inverell
QSKe – Quarter Sessions Kempsey
QSL – Quarter Sessions Lismore
QSMa – Quarter Sessions Maitland
QSMo – Quarter Sessions Moree
QSMu – Quarter Sessions Mudgee
QSMur – Quarter Sessions Murrurundi
QSN – Quarter Sessions Newcastle
QSNa – Quarter Sessions Narrabri

 

QSNar – Quarter Sessions Narrandera
QSO – Quarter Sessions Orange
QSP – Quarter Sessions Parramatta
QSPa – Quarter Sessions Parkes
QSPM – Quarter Sessions Port Macquarie
QSQ – Quarter Sessions Queanbeyan

QSS – Quarter Sessions Sydney
QSSi – Quarter Sessions Singleton
QST – Quarter Sessions Tamworth
QSTa – Quarter Sessions Taree
QSTe – Quarter Sessions Tenterfield
QSW – Quarter Sessions Windsor
QSWal – Quarter Sessions Walgett
QSWe – Quarter Sessions Wentworth
QSWil – Quarter Sessions Wilcannia
QSWl – Quarter Sessions Wellington
QSWo – Quarter Sessions Wollongong
QSWW – Quarter Sessions Wagga Wagga
QSWy – Quarter Sessions Wyalong
QSY – Quarter Sessions Yass
QSYo – Quarter Sessions Young

R – Microfilm reel
RofC – Report of Crime etc. for Police
    Information
R(r)tn – Remanded to (the) next

S(s) – South
SA – South Australia
SAPG – South Australian Police Gazette
SB – Sydney Bench
scon – Solitary Confinement
SCBri – Supreme Court Brisbane
SCNZ – Supreme Court New Zealand
SCP – Supreme Court Perth
SCS – Supreme Court Sydney
SCVDL – Supreme Court of Van Diemen’s
    Land
SCVic – Supreme Court of Victoria
SG – Solicitor General
Sgt(s) – Sergeant(s)
SiP – Stand in Pillory
SMIP – Solicit for an immoral purpose
Snr – Senior
Sod – Sodomy
SP – State Penitentiary – Long Bay
SRNSW – State Records NSW
Suca – Suspended under Crimes Act
SWP – Sydney Water Police
Syd – Sydney

T – Transportation
TaG – Tamworth Gaol
Tas – Tasmania
T(t)df – To date from
TB – Trial Bay
Tbogb – To be of good behaviour

U/a(s) – Unnatural act(s)
U/c(s) – Unnatural crime(s)
UMP – Upon a male person
U/o(s) – Unnatural offence(s)

V – Verdict
VDL – Van Diemen’s Land
Vic – Victoria
VPG – Victoria Police Gazette

W(w) – West
WA – Western Australia
WeG – Wentworth Gaol
WiG – Windsor Gaol
WilG – Wilcannia Gaol
WoG – Wollongong Gaol
WPB – Water Police Bench
WW – Wagga Wagga
WWG – Wagga Wagga Gaol

YG – Yass Gaol
Yob – Year of birth
YoG – Young Gaol
yr(s) – year(s)

 

2000 – Sydney
2000 PC – Sydney Central Police Court
    or Sydney Water Police Court

2016 – Redfern
2021 – Paddington
2037 – Glebe
2041 – Balmain
2042 – Newtown
2060 – N Sydney
2095 – Manly
2112 – Ryde
2131 – Ashfield
2134 – Burwood
2144 – Auburn
2150 – Parramatta
2217 – Kogarah
2250 – Gosford
2287 – Wallsend
2300 – Newcastle
2320 – Maitland & E & W Maitland
2321 – Morpeth
2324 – Raymond Terrace
2325 – Cessnock
2327 – Kurri Kurri
2329 – Merriwa
2330 – Singleton
2333 – Muswellbrook
2337 – Scone
2338 – Murrurundi
2340 – Tamworth
2346 – Manilla
2350 – Armidale
2357 – Coonabarabran
2370 – Glen Innes
2380 – Gunnedah
2390 – Narrabri
2400 – Moree
2402 – Warialda
2404 – Bingara
2440 – Kempsey
2444 – Port Macquarie
2446 – Wauchope
2460 – Grafton
2463 – Maclean
2469 – Drake
2477 – Wardell
2480 – Lismore
2500 – Wollongong
2516 – Bulli
2550 – Bega/Cobargo
2570 – Camden
2580 – Goulburn
2582 – Yass
2594 – Young
2620 – Queanbeyan
2633 – Delegate
2640 – Albury
2650 – Wagga Wagga
2653 – Tumbarumba
2659 – Walla Walla
2665 – Ardlethan
2671 – W Wyalong
2170 – Liverpool
2710 – Deniliquin
2711 – Hay
2731 – Moama
2732 – Barham
2750 – Penrith
2756 – Windsor
2791 – Carcoar
2794 – Cowra
2795 – Bathurst/Sofala/Trunkey
2799 – Blayney
2800 – Orange
2810 – Grenfell
2824 – Warren
2827 – Gilgandra
2829 – Coonamble
2830 – Dubbo
2834 – Lightning Ridge
2835 – Cobar
2839 – Brewarrina
2840 – Bourke/Louth
2850 – Mudgee/Hill End
2852 – Gulgong
2864 – Cudal
2866 – Molong
2868 – Obley
2871 – Forbes
2875 – Trundle
2877 – Condobolin
2880 – Broken Hill
3000 – Melbourne
4000 – Brisbane
4305 – Ipswich