South Australia Business and Occupations

South Australia

 * Companies (defunct) State Archives, index.
 * Representative Men Of South Australia at FindMyPast - index & images ($)
 * South Australian photographers, Graham Jaunay
 * 1837-1872 - Register of licences (Publicans, storekeepers, auctioneers, pawnbrokers, attorneys, etc.) 1837-1872 at FamilySearch, images.
 * 1839-1875 - Hotel index 1839-1875 : compiled from the South Australian Gazette & Colonial Register, South Australia Government Gazette, and Register of Publicans' Licences at FamilySearch, images.
 * 1840 - South Australia Cultivators 1840 at FindMyPast - index ($)
 * 1840 - 1840 Cultivators Return for South Australia, Graham Jaunay, index.
 * 1841-1928 - Australia, South Australia, Register of insolvencies, 1841-1928 at FamilySearch, images.
 * 1848 - Calais Lacemaker Immigrants to South Australia 1848 at FindMyPast - index ($)
 * 1913-1914 - South Australia, Immigrant Agricultural Workers 1913-14 at FindMyPast - index ($)

Police Gazettes

 * 1841-1870 - South Australia Government Gazettes at FindMyPast ($), index.
 * 1849 - South Australian Government Gazette 1849 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1850 - South Australian Government Gazette 1850 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1851 - South Australian Government Gazette 1851 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1852 - South Australian Government Gazette 1852 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1853 - South Australian Government Gazette 1853 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1854 - South Australian Government Gazette 1854 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1855 - South Australian Government Gazette 1855 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1856 - South Australian Government Gazette 1856 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1857 - South Australian Government Gazette 1857 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1858 - South Australian Government Gazette 1858 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1859 - South Australian Government Gazette 1859 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1860 - South Australian Government Gazette 1860 at MyHeritage ($), index.
 * 1862-1947 - South Australia, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1862-1947 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
 * 1867-1884 - South Australia Government Gazettes 1867-1884 at Ancestry - index & images ($)

Australia

 * Australian Pastoral Directories, ($), index.
 * Australian Pastoral Directory, ($), index.
 * Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters, index.

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.
 * 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.
 * 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.