Toowong Cemetery - Brisbane's
largest. The transcriptions were
undertaken by members of the
Queensland Family History Society
Inc. between 1983 and 1987.
Although Colonel Samuel Wensley
Blackall (Queensland's second
Governor) was the first person to
be buried at Toowong Cemetery in
1871, several memorials predate his
grave. In 1881, the bodies of the
three children of the guards
(convict settlement) who died in
the early 1830s, were exhumed from
a North Quay site and, with the
original headstones, transferred to
Toowong. After the Paddington
Cemeteries Act of 1911, a number of
remains and memorials from this
cemetery were also removed to
Toowong.
The number of burials in Toowong
Cemetery is unknown, though by 1963
a total of 106,000 burials
were said to have taken place.
The index to this resource
references approximately 47,000
names - on memorials still
standing, on graves demolished once
they were considered unsafe; and on
inscriptions from the
columbarium.
Described by the Lord Mayor of
Brisbane in 1994 as a project of
great significance for the records
of the City of Brisbane -
no library or
family historian should be without
it.
The
CDs come with QFHSdatasearch, a
generic interface designed to
search genealogy databases.
Developed by the Queensland Family
History Society Inc., it features
field oriented and keyword
searches, Boolean selection,
sorting, wildcard searches and,
when applicable, links between
search results and pdf images of
source records.
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