South Australia Business and Occupations

South Australia

 * Representative Men Of South Australia at FindMyPast - index & images ($)
 * 1841-1870 - South Australia Government Gazettes at FindMyPast ($), index.
 * 1837-1872 - Register of licences (Publicans, storekeepers, auctioneers, pawnbrokers, attorneys, etc.) 1837-1872 at FamilySearch, images.
 * 1839-1875 - Hotel index 1839-1875 : compiled from the South Australian Gazette & Colonial Register, South Australia Government Gazette, and Register of Publicans' Licences at FamilySearch, images.
 * 1840 South Australia Cultivators 1840 at FindMyPast - index ($)
 * 1848 Calais Lacemaker Immigrants to South Australia 1848 at FindMyPast - index ($)
 * 1862-1947 - Australia, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1862-1947 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
 * 1867-1884 - South Australia Government Gazettes 1867-1884 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
 * 1913-1914 - South Australia, Immigrant Agricultural Workers 1913-14 at FindMyPast - index ($)

Australia

 * Australian Pastoral Directories, ($), index.
 * Australian Pastoral Directory, ($), index.
 * Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters, index.

Content of Business Records
Australia businesses and commercial companies seldom contain dates or places of birth, marriage, or death but they can have valuable genealogical information.
 * For example, lawyers at the time kept detailed records for their clients. Included in these records are:
 * probate material
 * adoption records
 * insurance papers
 * lawsuits, and other sources that may help you trace your ancestors.
 * Some bank ledgers in Australia give:
 * the name
 * occupation
 * residence
 * age
 * place of birth (by county and country)
 * year of immigration and name of ship
 * a physical description of depositors.
 * Pub owners, butchers, lumberjacks, auctioneers, or other professionals had to be licensed. Licenses were granted by the courts, and notices were then published in the Government Gazette. For further information about gazettes, read the Court Records article.