This site has 53,000+ names of local, interstate and overseas persons mentioned in records in Queensland, Australia. There is also 135+ pages of advice and indexes original records held by Queensland State Archives. Indexes to original records at Queensland State Archives include:
• Mental asylum records
• Hospital admission registers
• Old age pension records
• Illegitimate children
• Police Gazettes
• Police station watchhouse records
• Prison records
• Maintenance payments to deserted wives, children, illegitimate children.
• Undertakings re fares. Premier’s Department files re travel by rail or ship (mainly interstate but some international)
• Women granted protection orders, 1888-1904.
• Dentists and dental apprentices
• Nurses and masseurs (male & female)
• Cooktown residents who signed a petition in 1874. The original document has their signatures
• Cooktown Boys’ School admission register
•’Interim Index’. Selected names from many sources (Court records, Police correspondence, Grammar School records, etc.)
• Indexes in progress: Insanity files (surnames R-Z), and missing friends registers, and Brisbane Prison Hospital admissions
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere