Databases and Indexes

Further details of many of these database indexes may be available through the Geelong Family History Group.

Make sure you look at the two Research Options on their website and most importantly follow the link to the GFHG Research Files Catalogue List to check for these or many more indexes and documents.

• Geelong District: Victoria Police - Inward Registered Correspondence (1852-1894) [selected units relevant to the Geelong District]
• Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne
• VPRS 937 Unit [various] [1852-1894]

• NAME: Name / Subject
• DATE: year of bundle of correspondence
• PLACE: Location of Police District
• COMMENT: brief description of correspondence item
• REFERENCE: VPRS number, UNIT number and Bundle number

Approximately half of the entries in this series do not relate to individuals but to the various Police Districts in the region.

It was felt that these entries would be valuable for anyone researching a particular region but would not be beneficial if included in the A-Z files of the Potpourri Database.  Consequently a separate file of subject based entries has been provided.

If an entry relates to a person or organisation, it appears in the A-Z files

If an entry does NOT relate to a person or organisation, it appears in the Police District file.

VPRS 937 contains multiple Units relevant to the Geelong District:

• Units 212-225 [done]
• Units 449-458 [done]

• 7,581 entries

• general office matters - pay & leave, conduct, dismissals
• prisoners / lunatics
• some inquests
• warrants
• new stations, repairs, fencing, renting
• gold escort matters
• fire reports
• Slaughter House inspectors

Police Districts / regions include:

• Anakie; Anglesea; Apollo Bay; Bannockburn; Barwon River; Batesford; Beeac; Belfast; Bellarine; Birregurra; Break O'Day; Breakwater; Camperdown; Carpendeit; Chilwell; Cobden; Colac; Cressy; Curlewis; Deans Marsh; Derrinallum; Drysdale; Duneed; East Geelong; Elaine; Foxhow; Geelong; Geelong Water Police; Germantown; Herne Hill; Inverleigh; Jan Juc; Kensington; Kildare; Krambruk; Lake Connewarre; Leigh; Leigh Road / Shire; Lethbridge; Lismore; Little River; Lorne; Marshalltown; Maude; Meredith; Moriac / Mount Moriac; Napoleon; Newtown; North Geelong; Ondit; Pitfield; Portarlington; Pt Nepean; Queenscliff; Rokewood; Shelford; South Barwon; South Geelong; St Albans; St Leonards; Staughton Vale; Steiglitz; Stoney Creek; Terang; Viaduct; Waurn Ponds; Werribee; West Geelong; Winchelsea; Wyndham; plus some odds and sods intermingled amongst the "local ones".