Tasmania Business and Occupations

Online Records

 * Licensees of hotels, Tasmania, 1816-51 at FamilySearch, images.
 * Hotels & Properties (1818-1958) Tasmania Libraries. Hotel licensees, inquests into fires, Launceston buildings and demolished hotels.
 * Australia, Tasmania, occupational records - certificates of competency, 1890-1961 at FamilySearch, images. Index and images of certificates of competency in several occupations involving the operation of heavy equipment. Of genealogical interest are the date and place of birth given for each individual.
 * Tasmania, Australia, Teacher Employment History Cards, 1886-1945 at Ancestry ($), index and images.
 * Tasmania, Australia, Railway Employment Records, 1903-1977 at Ancestry ($), index and images.

Government and Police Gazettes
License announcements are the main business record.
 * 1907-1919 - Tasmania Government Gazettes at FindMyPast ($), index.
 * 1871-1900 - Tasmania Police Gazettes at FindMyPast ($), index.
 * 1884-1933 - Tasmania, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1884-1933 at Ancestry ($), index and images.

Directories

 * Tasmania Postal Directories at FindMyPast, Index ($)
 * Tasmania Telephone Directory at FindMyPast, Index ($)
 * Australia Directories at FindMyPast ($), index.

New South Wales Online Records Including Tasmania Prior to 1825

 * 1787-1976 - New South Wales, Australia, Miscellaneous Records, 1787-1976 - contains agriculture,police, medical, pharmacy board, mine and examinations division records, images ($)

Occupations

 * Merchant Maine Records at FamilySearch.
 * The law list of Australasia at FamilySearch, images.
 * 1824-1876 - Barristers and solicitors 1824-1876 at FamilySearch, images.

New South Wales Archive Resources Kit Including Tasmania Prior to 1825

 * Community Access Points A list of libraries and archives which hold the microform copies of the Archive Resources Kit records.
 * The Archive Resources Kit includes the following Professions and occupations records:
 * Returns of the Colony (Blue Books), 1822-57
 * Record of Appointments to Government Offices, 1814-25
 * Roll of barristers, solicitors, attorneys, etc, 1824-76

"The ARK is held by 40 community access points across NSW. The majority of access points are libraries. The ARK consists of microfilm copies of our most popular and heavily used colonial records. Included are records relating to convict arrivals, assisted immigrants, births, deaths and marriages, publicans' licences, electoral rolls, naturalisation, returns of the colony ('Blue Books'), land grants, and the wide range of functions of the Colonial Secretary (1788-1825). You may find that the ARK (or parts of it) are held at a library near you."

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.

FamilySearch Library
Additional sources are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog: