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The Swan River Pioneers Group has produced a series of research CD's which are an invaluable tool in your pioneer research.
To purchase a copy of the CD's contact the Convenor/s via eMail:
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First Familes of the Swan River Colony
This database which took over 2 years to compile gives a brief biographical description of persons arriving into the Swan River Colony or who were born in the Colony up to 31st December 1838 (includes all of Western Australia)
Cost is $85 plus $5 postage
The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal 1833
Compiled by Graham Bown our Projects Officer.
Newspapers have played a very important role in the history of Western Australia since The Fremantle Journal & General Advertiser commenced in February 1830 as a single sheet of handwritten copy. This was eight months after the Colony was founded. It was edited and published by James A Gardner of Fremantle. Over the next three years, a number of newspapers were produced - The Western Australian Gazette & General Advertiser in 1830, The West Australian Gazette 1830 and 1831, The Western Australian Chronicle & Perth Gazette 1831, The Fremantle Observer, Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal 1831, The Western Australian 1831, and The Western Australian Colonial News, 1832.
Lieutenant Governor Stirling imported a Stanhope Press from England. Charles MacFaull, who was on good terms with Stirling, was given permission to use this machine for the sum of 75 pounds a year on his undertaking to publish Government notices as well as certain other departmental matters, and to supply 20 copies of each issue of The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal to the Colonial Secretary.
Cost is $55 (plus $5 postage)
Passenger Arrivals and Departures - Swan River Colony 1826-1838
Compiled by Graham Bown.
This database contains the details of approx 4,359 immigrants arriving into Western Australia with approximately 1,300 showing departure dates.
Cost of $55 (plus $5 postage)
Colonial Secretary's WA Inward Correspondence Index 1829-1832
Compiled by Graham Bown.
The Colonial Secretary kept two registers of inward and outward letters. Inward Correspondence (Accession 36) contains many letters from private individuals, either collectively or individually, as well as from Government Officials, and contains a number of proclamations and instructions relating to the administration and structure of the Colony. Originally the letters were pigeon-holed at Government House in approximate date order, and later chronologically within subject or department headings. When the letters were aquired by the State Archives, they were bound into 906 volumes and consequently microfilmed in the order in which they were bound. Outwards Correspondence (Accession 49) was summarised into letterbooks, which were compiled in date order, and are also now held in the State Record Office.
Cost of $25 (plus $5 postage)
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