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Online Catalogue –
PROV’s Digitised Records and Online Indexes

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Digitised records and database indexes can be accessed online by clicking on the entries below. Find this list through the link to PROV's digitised records and online indexes at www.access.prov.vic.gov.au. If you click on a link to a database index you will be taken directly to the index. If you click on a link to digitised records you will be taken to a page where you can download a pdf of the digitised record.

Passenger lists

Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923

Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871

Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, U.K. and Foreign Ports, 1852-1896

Wills and probate

Victorian Wills, Probate and Administration Records 1841-1925 Includes an index and digitised records.

Education and teachers

VPRS 13719/P1 Database Index to Teacher Record Books, 1863-1959

Index to VPRS 907/P0 Teacher Examination Papers, 1863-1872

Digitised records

VPRS 5675/P0 Index to Special Case Files, Education Department, 1862-1977

VPRS 5676/P0 Register of Special Case Files, Education Department, 1852-1977

VPRS 65/P0 Copy of Inward and Outward Correspondence, Board of Education, 1849-1851

Koorie Heritage

Digitised records

VPRS 11 Inward Unregistered Correspondence to the Chief Protector of Aborigines 1847–1851

VPRS 10 Inward Registered Correspondence to the Superintendent of Port Phillip District 1839–1851

See PROVguide 67 Koorie Index of Names Project for information about a name index for these records.

Building plans

Index to VPRS 7882/P1 Public Building Files, 1874 - 1988

Index to Public Works Department (Building Services Agency) Plans 1853 - 1998

Images online: Public Transport Corporation and the 1956 Olympics

Digitised records

VPRS 12800 and VPRS 12903 Public Transport Corporation Photographic Collection Railway Negatives

VPRS 10742/P1 Photographic Negatives [1956 Melbourne Olympics Photographic Collection]

Early publicans and pastoral runs

Index to VPRS 7/P0 Treasurer’s Correspondence Relating to Publicans, 1838 -1855

Index to VPRS 7/P0 Treasurer’s Correspondence Relating to Pastoral Runs, 1838 -1855

Prisoners and convicts

Digitised records

VPRS 515/P0 Central Register of Male Prisoners [selected volumes only]

VPRS 10867/P0 Alphabetical Index to Central Register of Male Prisoners, 1868-1947

VPRS 10879/P0 Alphabetical Index to Central Register of Female Prisoners, 1857-1948

VPRS 110/P0 Register of Convicts, 1842 - 1854

VPRS 108/P0 Register, Police Magistrate, Portland, 1840-1853

Divorce, insolvency and other civil court records

VPRS 5335/P0 Index to Divorce Cause Books, 1861-1924

Index to VPRS 75/P0 Certificate of Discharge, Court of Insolvency, Melbourne, 1848-1875

Index to VPRS 12024/P1 Companies and Miscellaneous Applications Files, 1884 - 1922

Index to VPRS 815/P0 Court of Insolvency Records, Geelong [1855-57 portion only]

Index to VPRS 13353 Court of Petty Sessions Register of Applications for the Victorian Old-age Pension, North Melbourne, 1902 - c.1908

Mental health

Digitised records

VPRS 7446/P1 Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums, 1849-1885

VPRS 7427/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ararat Asylum, 1867-1906

VPRS 7426/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ballarat Asylum, 1893-1907

VPRS 7428/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ballarat/Sunbury Asylums, 1877-1907

VPRS 8236/P1 Register of Patients, Ballarat/Sunbury Asylums, 1877-1920

VPRS 7395/P1 Case Books of Male Patients, Beechworth Asylum, 1867-1912

VPRS 7396/P1 Case Books of Female Patients, Beechworth Asylum, 1878-1912

VPRS 7493/P1 Register of Patients, Bendigo Receiving Ward, 1874-1908

VPRS 7721/P1 Register of Patients, Collingwood Asylum, 1866-1873

VPRS 7425/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1906

VPRS 7690/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1914

VPRS 7680/P1 Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1919

VPRS 7423/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Royal Park Hospital for the Insane, 1907-1913

VPRS 7490/P1 Asylum Records [Case Books], Sunnyside Licensed House, 1905-1915

VPRS 7422/P1 Index to Male and Female Case Books, Yarra Bend Asylum, 1848-1912

Central Melbourne

Index to VPRS 840 International Exhibition Melbourne Photograph Albums, 1888

VPRS 8851/P1 Database of Records in VPRS 8850 of the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens and Related Organisations, 1857-1991

Digitised records

VPRS 8904/P1 Subject Index to Town Clerks Correspondence Files, City of Melbourne, 1913-1983

PROV’s online exhibitions

Explore PROV's online exhibitions: www.prov.vic.gov.au/online/default.asp


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