Regional NSW
![Sample from the Small Debts Register - Port Macquarie Courts of Petty Sessions, 4 May 1846](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/086e840e886955447afa27ea7e3d268717b17868-1920x1403.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Small Debts Registers Index
Search by name and view/download the digitised entries. Information includes: names of plaintiff and defendant, cause of action, amount of claim, costs, judgment and amount of judgment.
![Land grant application, Dr Charles Lamonnerie Dictus Fattorini](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/08/4126649beec04e4296537cb5920ca063.jpg)
Land grants and leases (registers) 1792-1865
This is an index of the first six volumes of the Surveyor General's Registers of Land Grants and Leases [7/445, 7/447-451] and contains all grants to 1819, mainland grants to 1822 and Cumberland grants, 1823-65
Photos from Urban Affairs and Planning
This collection includes both colour and B&W photographs taken between 1945 and 1999, depicting Sydney, its surrounding areas, and regional NSW
![Government Printing Office; NRS 4481, Glass negatives NRS-4481-4-161-[AF00198139] Agricultural College Boys [Department of Agriculture] [no date]](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/11/b88091c8c68940ef96998726599064bf.jpg)
Raising the Farmer
Explore with us some of the 6,000 unique and beautiful glass negatives taken to illustrate articles in the Agricultural Gazette of NSW – now digitally available on our website, a unique slice of rural life
![A large register sits open showing handwritten entries of wages paid to orphans](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/5848e21830535e1eaa98927577ce3236337f25a5-2040x1530.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
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Wages Paid to Orphans – a regional tour
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our recent Collections on Tour program on Wages paid to orphans, 1849-1851
![Cover label Small debts registers [Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions]](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/02/448019088ded476a82b8d0ea1fcc00d6.jpg)
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Archives for Everyone
The Archives for Everyone project has seen us partner with 14 groups who have nominated Small Debts registers from Courts of petty sessions throughout NSW
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The fountains of Machattie Park, Bathurst
Several of the postcards featured in our current library display depict Machattie Park in Bathurst. Postcard collector Vera Bell lived in Bathurst between 1905 and 1908 while her father, John, acted as the police superintendent
![Behind the scenes](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/a0f4bbd1cf1d640b9d7932ee24b8786a2082a09f-4032x3024.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
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Significance matters
As part of an ongoing partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW, our Curatorial and Digital teams have been hard at work making a suite of vocational videos that explore the importance of assessing and communicating the significance of museum collections
![Pencil drawing of Bathurst 1818, Plans of Government Buildings at Bathurst, Main series of letters received [Colonial Secretary], 1788–1826.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/ec5b53147e75bdc6536c142340cae04b71adc992-3203x1998.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Convict farmer Antonio Roderigo and a ‘dastardly massacre’
A dispute over potatoes farmed by convict-settler Antonio Roderigo was one of many hostile events between colonists and Wiradyuri people that led to the Bathurst War of 1824