Dear Fay, Rod and Wendy GOW have indexed a lot of information from that area. Some, if not all is on the internet so try google by their name. Each holder of a Liquor License had, and still does, renew it annually. About August their is a list in the Government Gazette naming every licence holder and the name of their outlet. Wine and Spirits I believe is a different licence to that for beer. Look on www.records.nsw.gov.au under Publican. I know there is a help sheet which they call Archives in Brief on the subject. While on that site look for the name of your person, because anyone who left an estate is listed there. You could well find he has a Probate Packet. For more information on them on that site look under Probate. There is also an AIB on that subject too. Sincerely,Bill > I am seeking information on John Taylor, Johann & Juliana Wenz and the > 'Cross Keys Hotel', connected with Lochinvar in the 1840's & 1850's. > > My ancestor, John/Johann Wenz, was a vinedresser (one of the first bounty > workers, brought out by the Macarthur brothers of Camden Park.) He and his > family arrived on the 'Kinnear' in April 1838. After his 5 yr contract > expired he moved to Lochinvar. At the time of his death in Lochinvar in > Feb1853 he was an 'Innkeeper". He was also a bricklayer and on a > daughter's death certificate stated to be a 'distiller'. Records show that > his wife, Julia Wince [sic] (Julia/Juliana Wenz) held the licence for > 'Cross Keys' in May, 1853. Her son-in-law, John Coleman (m Anne M Wenz in > 1850 in Maitland) held the Publicans General Liccence in 1854 to 1857. In > 1858 John Coleman applied for a licences for a new house and was granted > after being opposed by Mr Mullen. > " Johann Wenz worked for John Taylor of Lochinvar in the Hunter Valley, > where he laid out a vineyard of twenty-eight acres and worked until he won > a house in a lottery in Sydney about 1849." (from Greetings from the Land > where Milk and Honey flows: the German Emigration to NSW 1838-1858, ed by > Patricia Cloos and Jurgen Tampke. See pp 11, 22, 27, 97, 116, 193-4.)