Miscellaneous Resources : An Overview
This category includes a variety of indexes that have not yet grown into a standalone series. The major resources are:
British Army Index 1787 Index (CD and microfiche versions) to the War Office List of Officers of the British Army and Marines and Officers on Half-Pay. A full index to the Army List published by the War Office on 15th February 1787.The new improved CD version includes QFHSdatasearch that enables direct searching of 9500+ names, including 4200 officers on half-pay.
QFHSdatasearch is a generic interface designed to search genealogy databases and developed by QFHSInc. This version features field oriented and keyboard searches, Boolean selection, sorting and wildcard searches. The index covers name, title (where given), rank, regiment, whether cavalry, infantry, or on half-pay, and the page reference. Includes British Armies in England,
Scotland, Wales, Ireland, America (incl. New-York, Pensacola, Mobille, Louisbourgh, St Augustine, S. Carolina), Southern Charibbee Islands (incl. Grenada, St Vincent, Dominica, Barbados, Jamaica, Tobago, Martinique, Guadeloupe), Nova Scotia, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Africa (incl. Senegal), East Indies, Portugal, Gibraltar, Germany, Havannah, Minorca.
Two indexes from surviving Commonwealth Electoral Roll records held by the National Archives of Australia for all electors registered in Queensland in 1913 and 1903. The CD indexes entries for Queensland electors and covers name, sex, place of living, occupation, roll number, polling place and division. Searching the index by name, year and other details is made easy by using the
popular searching and sorting capabilities of our very own developed QFHSdatasearch interface. Features include field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting, and wildcard searches and, when applicable, links between search results and images held in .pdf files of the source records. These CDs are excellent starting points for researching families living in Queensland at the
time and in particular, for locating family groups, eg by specifying a surname and sorting on place of living within a polling place. Women gained the federal franchise at Federation and represent approximately forty percent of those registered on the Queensland rolls in 1903. Though registration was not compulsory, Queenslanders from all walks of life are waiting to be found in these indexes –
eg bug destroyers, circus performers, chimney sweeps, dog poisoners, farmers, labourers, miners and those on domestic duties.
Queensland Passports Index 1915-1921: The first in a series of passport registers compiled by the Collector of Customs, Brisbane and currently held by the National Archives of Australia (Brisbane). An index of approx. 5,500 names including the date, name, and address, how dealt with, passport number, number of warrant, remarks and other associated dates. Addresses cover a wide range –
mostly Queensland city and country but surprisingly a great range of other places such as interstate (Sydney and Murwillumbah) and overseas (including Canada, Papua, Solomon Islands, Ceylon, New Zealand, Fiji, Bengall East, China, Singapore, and England).
Supreme Court Brisbane Originating Summonses 1901-1906: This is an index to the Queensland Supreme Court, Southern District, Brisbane, series SCT/CJ covering the period 1901 to 1906 (SCT/CJ1 - SCT/CJ36) which is held at the Queensland State Archives - a total of 4,194 entries. The series of Court records contains documents referring to
Originating Matters that are heard in 'Chambers' (which means that the proceedings are not open to the public) rather than in Open Court. It includes matters where the principal question is the construction of an Act, statutory instrument, deed, will, or other document, or some other question of law, and where there is unlikely to be any substantial dispute of fact (Supreme Court definition,
1994). Some of the matters that can be included are: summons for maintenance, application for custody, summons to commence action, protection orders, Court of Criminal Appeal summons, applications for bail, insanity, and intestacy matters, appeals from District Courts, matters relating to deed polls, mercantile securities and deceased persons estates.
The index lists: Surname, Christian name/s, Title, Date of Summons, Residence of person named, Occupation of person named, Notes, Age of person named, Source of record and Folio number. Where the widow of the person named in the summons has remarried, there are two entries — one under the original married name and on under the new married name. The notes include (where known) dates of birth,
death and marriage, relationship to the person named in the summons; type of record, eg application for bail, bill of costs, bill of sale, civil and criminal proceedings, divorce, land sale, liquidation, mortgage; type of person named, eg beneficiary of will, creditor, defendant, executor, lunatic, mortgagor, mortgagee, plaintiff, trustee, witness. Originals or copies of birth, death and
marriage certificates are often included in the summons papers.
(NOTE: Now included in digital format on CD. Refer to Intestacies, Insolvencies & Wills: Index to QGG Notices 1859-1900 (incl Intestacy returns 1896-1910, Supreme Court Originating Summonses 1901-1906).
Abbreviations
Unless otherwise stated, these resources are Queensland in content. Abbreviations have the meanings as shown: '+' postage extra; AUD$ Australian currency, CD CD-ROM, Edn edition, FA post free Australia-wide, GST goods & services tax (Australia), M microfiche, MIs monumental inscriptions, NA not available/applicable, P
print (books, hard copy), '.pdf' portable document format, P&P postage & packing, Pub published (yyyy), R microfilm reel/s, TBA to be announced/advised.
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