abbreviations_money

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Abbreviations Used

BDM NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
b. born
c. circa (approximate date)
d. died
m. married
M-P Murray-Prior
ML Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
NLA National Library of Australia
QJO John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
TLM-P The first Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (1819-92)

When one source is listed more than once on the same page, an abbreviated title is given.

It is impossible to precisely judge the value of money in the past, yet some idea is necessary to make sense of lives. Therefore, we do give conversions to modern values but emphasise that these must be treated as, at best, rough estimates. For Australian currency from 1850-1900, we use Thom Blake's converter, converting amounts to roughly equivalent 2015 values. For more on estimating the value of past money, see his query.php. For the value of money from 1901, we rely on the Reserve Bank of Australia's https://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualPreDecimal.html

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