The following research resources and documents are available to assist with your research.
Online search facilities:
- Family Names List provides a current list of surnames which are represented in our research files.
- Local Newspapers are an excellent source of research material. The local newspaper is The Tarrangower Times which over time also included various combinations of the Maldon, Maldon & District, Newstead, Baringhup, Laanecoorie and Muckleford Advertiser. There are several ways to access the information in these publications. Since mid-2022 full access to the editions from 1858 to 1901 are available via Trove’s online newspapers collection.
- Alternatively you could use the Tarrangower Times Index which provides searchable access to manually produced indexes of the newspaper volumes from Jun 1858 – Jan 1864 and Jan 1872 – May 1880
- Apart from the indexes available online, most editions of The Tarrangower Times from 1858 to current are accessible on micro-film or in hard copy, also other local newspapers, and cuttings from other papers
Computerised Databases – Master Indexes (available onsite only)
- Surname master index cross-referencing all instances of surname occurrence
- Maldon township buildings including cross-reference to associated surnames and land allotment
Computerised Databases – Catalogues (available onsite only)
- Artefact catalogue including images and key word search
- Photograph catalogue with key word search
Research themes of material available:
- Churches: histories, records
- Communications: postal service, telegraph, telephone, unclaimed mail lists
- Education: schools, pupils, teachers
- Gold mining, mines and miners
- Heritage conservation: NTA(V) Notable Town, planning
- Indigenous peoples and ethnic groups
- Infrastructure: water, roads, electricity, gas
- Institutions: gaol, orphanage, asylum, workhouse, benevolent home
- Medical: hospital, pharmacy, ambulance, doctors, nurses
- Military: war, army, navy, air force, nurses, home guard
- Transport: coach, train, bus, automobile, aeroplane
- Tourism: cultural heritage, nature
Lists of documents for each theme are being prepared and will be published here when available.
Official documents and lists:
- Education: schools, pupils, teachers
- Genealogy – BDMs, census, pioneer registers, cemeteries
- Government: census, electoral roll, police
- Institutions: hospital, orphanage, asylum, workhouse, benevolent home, friendly society
- Justice system: court records, gaol
- Maps and plans: for example original land purchases from the Crown, land use, planning controls, atlases, location lists
- Shipping: immigration and passenger lists, crews, shipwrecks
- Shire of Maldon: rates records (1864-1940), some works contracts and correspondence, 1960s historic architecture survey, 1977 Conservation Study, 1980s landscape and gardens survey
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