Historical information

Purchased from the author when he spoke at a meeting of the Surrey Hills Historical Society.
This meticulously researched book lists all towns and villages with entries in the Victorian censuses between 1841 and 1901. There are over 1400 entries. It includes the latitude and longitude for each town. It indicates how many males and females lived in the town, and the number of occupied dwellings (where available). For many of these settlements the only visible trace of them today is in the census results collected by the fledgling governments of Colonial Victoria. It is a comprehensive reference and a fascinating insight into the movements of early populations of new Australians and the forces that shaped them and is useful to historians, researchers and all readers with a fascination for colonial history.

Physical description

This book lists all the towns and villages with entries in Victorian censuses between 1841 and 1901. There are over 1400 entries. 518pp, with place name index.