On the State Records website is a register of the police from 1862. The 150th anniversary of the formation was on 1st March. I found a couple of ancestors who joined that year (with nice descriptions of them) but who were “dismissed” within a few weeks. I imagine at the time that it would have been considered an attractive secure job when they called for recruits and many would have applied. Have other people found ancestors who joined in 1862 and were also “dismissed” within a short time? Does anyone know the reason? Did they take all-comers and then later do some “filtering”? Valerie Wotton

Hi All, My great grandfather, John Alexander Martin, was appointed an ordinary constable at Inverell in 1860. The NSW Police have no record of him, but the appointment is published in the NSW Government Gazette of 1860, Volume 2, p. 1898. The appointment was from the Police Office at Glenn Innes, via the Glenn Innes Bench of Magistrates. This presumably predates the formation of the actual NSW Police. Jon. > From: <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:13:09 +1100 > To: "Soc.genealANZ-mail" <[email protected]> > Subject: NSW Police Force 1862, original recruits > > On the State Records website is a register of the police from 1862. The 150th > anniversary of the formation was on 1st March. I found a couple of ancestors > who joined that year (with nice descriptions of them) but who were ³dismissed² > within a few weeks. I imagine at the time that it would have been considered > an attractive secure job when they called for recruits and many would have > applied. Have other people found ancestors who joined in 1862 and were also > ³dismissed² within a short time? Does anyone know the reason? Did they take > all-comers and then later do some ³filtering²? Valerie Wotton > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message