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Secretary's vault. In the 1920s Amelia Wayn was employed as an indexer and compiled indexes of major sources of information at her disposal, the newspapers and Governors dispatches.
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registration, court records, shipping passenger departures, divorces, inquests, land records, court records, lighthouses, naturalisations, prison records, publicans’ licenses,
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