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1899 edition of Sands Directory (National Library of Australia)

The Sands Directories, also published as the Sands and Kenny Directory and the Sands and McDougall Directory were annual publications in Australia.

Contents

They listed household, business, society, and Government contacts [1] in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney including some rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales from the 1850s. [2] City directories are an important resource for historical research, allowing individual addresses and occupations to be linked to specific streets and suburbs. [3]

Publisher

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1899 edition of Sands Directory (cover)

John Sands (1818-1873) was an engraver, printer and stationer. Born in England he moved to Sydney in 1837. [4] Sands formed several business partnerships, in 1851 with his brother-in-law Thomas Kenny, and in 1860 with Dugald McDougall with the business being known as Sands, Kenny & Co. [4] Directory titles changed as the publisher changed partners, and at different points the Sands Directories were also published as the 'Sands and Kenny' or 'Sands and McDougall Directories'. [5]

Sands, Kenny & Co's commercial and general Melbourne directory

The first Melbourne Directory was published by Sands and Kenny in 1857. [5] By 1858 the second edition of the directory was distributed to public libraries in the major seaports of Great Britain, Ireland, the United States of America, and Canada. [6] From 1862 to 1974 the Melbourne directories were published as the Sands and McDougall Melbourne Directory. [5] [7]

The 1860 Melbourne directory was 400 pages long and contained over 10,000 entries. [1]

Sands Sydney, Suburban and Country Commercial Directory

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1899 edition of Sands Directory (spine)

The Sands Sydney, Suburban and Country Commercial Directory, first published in 1858, [8] included a variety of information including street addresses and businesses, farms and country towns, stock numbers (e.g. horses, cattle and sheep on each station) as well as information about public watering places including dams, tanks and wells. [9] With the primary function of post office directory it provides lists of householders, businesses, public institutions and officials. [10]

The Sydney editions of the directory, covering the state of New South Wales, were published each year from 1858–59 to 1932–33. [11] There were four years when the directory did not appear during this time, they were 1872, 1874, 1878 and 1881. [12] The directory is arranged by municipalities in which properties were located, listing the primary householder street by street. [13] As a consequence, the household and business information in the directories is used for research into Sydney history, [14] with particular application for genealogical research. [12] [15] [16]

By 1909 the Sydney directory contained over 1700 pages. [17] The full title of the 1913 edition of the directory of Sydney is Sands Sydney, Suburban and Country Directory for 1913 comprising, amongst other information, street, alphabetical, trade and professional, country towns, country alphabetical, pastoral, educational, governmental, parliamentary, law and miscellaneous lists. [8]

Sands & McDougall's South Australian directory

Sands and McDougall arrived in Adelaide in 1883. [18] They took over the directory previously published by Josiah Boothby, publishing their first South Australian directory in January 1884. [18] [19] [20] The Sands & McDougall's Directory of South Australia was published from 1884 to 1974. [21]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sands and Kenny's Melbourne Directory". The Age . Melbourne. 24 January 1860. p. 5. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Eslick, Christine; Joy Hughes; R. Ian Jack (1987). Bibliography of New South Wales local history: an annotated bibliography of secondary works published before 1982 and New South Wales directories 1828 -1950. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press. pp. 372, 398. ISBN   0-86840-154-4.
  3. ↑ Williams, A.V. (1913). The development and growth of city directories. Cincinnati, Ohio: Williams directory co. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 Walsh, G.P. (1976). 'Sands, John (1818–1873)', Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 "Sands and McDougall Melbourne Directories". Kingston Libraries. Kingston Libraries. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Publications Received". The Age . Melbourne. 1 February 1858. p. 6. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Stephens, Andrew (15 August 2014). "Sands & McDougall directory exhibition brings old Melbourne back to life". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  8. 1 2 "New South Wales, Sydney Directory 1847-1913". Find My Past. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Sands' Directory". The Evening News . Sydney. 15 January 1923. p. 9. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Family history and genealogy". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Sands Sydney, Suburban and Country Commercial Directory". The City of Sydney. The City of Sydney. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  12. 1 2 Cridland, Marilyn; Central Coast Family History Group (N.S.W.) (1997), A guide to the Sands Directory, Central Coast Family History Group Inc, p. 1, retrieved 5 March 2015
  13. ↑ "Sands Sydney Directory Guide" (PDF). Waverley Council. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  14. ↑ "Sands Directory – Researching your house's history". Inside History magazine. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  15. ↑ "Sands' Directory [digital edition]". City of Sydney. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  16. ↑ Royal Australian Historical Society. "Sands Directories are now online!" . Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  17. ↑ "Sands' Directory 1909". The Sydney Morning Herald . NSW. 9 January 1909. p. 11. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  18. 1 2 "South Australian directories". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  19. ↑ Sands & McDougall Limited (1884), Sands & McDougall's South Australian directory : with which is incorporated Boothby's South Australian directory, Printed and published by Sands & McDougall, retrieved 5 March 2015
  20. ↑ "South Australian Directory". The Southern Cross . Adelaide. 27 March 1896. p. 4. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  21. ↑ Sands & McDougall Limited (1884). "Sands & McDougall's directory of South Australia". Sands & McDougall. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
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