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Gold buyers' records
Sun, 28 May 2006 17:53:37 +0000 (UTC) soc.genealogy.australia+nz
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ian.westergaard...
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My knowledge on this is speculation from what I have read.
I believe that gold could only be sold to licensed gold buyers - mainly the banks who had representatives at the gold fields who bought the gold from the miners or alternatively the miners took the gold to town and sold it there. I have also read of miners giving their gold to publicans for safe keeping and to pay their accommodation and liquor. My questions Am I correct in believing that gold could only be sold to licensed gold buyers? Would the publicans and others who accepted gold as payment for goods and services have been required to be licensed gold buyers? If so some may have been acting illegally? Did the licensed gold buyers have to keep records of who they bought gold from and how much etc? Where would such records be held and how would I access them? I thought that if these records existed they might be a valuable source to find/verify people who went to the gold fields and/or explain where their wealth may have come from. Ian Westergaard In Cloudy & Cool Central Otago New Zealand Ken Gibb...
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