Databases and Indexes

• Geelong Advertiser 1854-1880 [part]
• available at Geelong Heritage Centre, Geelong
  Deakin University, Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library, Waterfront Campus, Geelong
  State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
  and various other locations on microfilm

• NAME: Name of Insolvent
• DATE: Geelong Advertiser publication date
• ADDRESS: Residence of Insolvent
• COMMENT: Occupation and/or remark

Only a small selection of entries from the Insolvency reports in the Geelong Advertiser have been indexed to-date

• 309 entries

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• Geelong Advertiser commenced 21 November 1840
• 17 April 1855 - John Henry MERCER, newly appointed Commissioner of Insolvent Estates for Geelong, opened court for the first time at the Masonic Hall, Union Street
• Insolvency reports appeared regularly in the Geelong Advertiser from that date