Sands and McDougall Directories

 DTHS is working to keep downloaded copies of Sands and McDougall Directories in our resources so that searches of content can include them.  The following years have been downloaded

• Sands and McDougall Directories 1857-1880 digitised by University of Melbourne. Contains lists of people known to be living at each Melbourne address. Downloaded to our Resources Folder: 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880
• Sands and McDougall Directories digitised by  State Library of Victoria. Downloaded to our Resources Folder:  1860, 1865, 1870, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1974
• DTHS Downloaded Copies

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Sands Directory

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

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]

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]

Source: Wikipedia. Nov2023

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