1839 Port Phillip District Directory

The first published Directory to list the residents of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales was the “New South Wales and Port Phillip General Post Office Directory for 1839”. This was published by James Maclehose of Hunter Street, Sydney, N.S.W. and printed by James Spilsbury of Lower George Street, Sydney, N.S.W. with the permission of James Raymond, Esq., Postmaster-General, of O’Connell Street, Sydney, New South Wales. This directory contains well over 5,000 entries in alphabetical order, including a number of residents of the newly-founded Port Phillip District. It also contains the names of many people who moved to the Port Phillip District at a later date. Though it contains the names of many well-known pioneers it is by no means a complete listing.