April 13, 2021
This project conducts historical fieldwork by visiting and walking through localities and heritage sites relevant to convict Moreton Bay and the commandant Patrick Logan. In July 2020 I made the first of these field visits and drove to Queen’s Park and Cunningham’s Knoll in Ipswich. My findings, in the case… Read More
March 19, 2021
The Queensland Native Mounted Police operated between 1849 and 1904. It was organised along paramilitary lines, consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers led by white officers. It operated across the whole of Queensland and was explicitly constituted to protect the lives, livelihoods and property of settlers and to prevent (and… Read More
February 10, 2021
A visit to the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying is well worthwhile. Located at 317 Edward Street, Brisbane the museum collects and exhibits material relating to the surveying of Queensland and the maps created. The museum is open Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 4 pm and… Read More
January 18, 2021
Honora Bagnall, nee Geary, was born around 1809 in Connough, Galway, Ireland. Under a sentence of seven years transportation to NSW for stealing three pigs. She arrived in Sydney on 27 September 1831. Honora married William Bagnall on 11 May 1835 and on 19 Oct 1835 she was sentenced to… Read More
January 5, 2021
Listen to Visiting Fellow Timothy Roberts’ talk on ‘John Domville Taylor and the early days on the Downs’, given at the Royal Historical Society of Queensland in December 2020, via this link. Read More
December 4, 2020
Join Associate Professor Tanya Evans and a range of scholars who have worked on family histories or with family historians, to hear about their research and its impact. This free webinar on 17 Dec 2020, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, is presented by the Macquarie University Centre for Applied History. Read More
December 2, 2020
Arthur Edward Halloran emigrated to NSW from England in 1828. He was appointed as Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wide Bay District in 1853 and later became Commissioner of Crown Lands for the combined Wide Bay and Burnett District. His official correspondence reveals that he was a diligent administrator… Read More
November 24, 2020
The Queensland Police Museum has made available 25 officer service histories, 20 of which are pre-1900 officers, via eHive. The information kept on each officer can include biographical data; entry and separation dates; lists of rank attainment; station transfers plus other data such as reward and award information; family… Read More
November 19, 2020
In transcribing sources from the archive of the German missionaries at Nundah, HGRC visiting fellow, Dr Annemarie McLaren, has added further insight into the missionaries’ activities between 1838 when the mission was established, and 1848 when it was disbanded. This project, in making key primary material from this period more… Read More
October 31, 2020
Thomas John Domville Taylor was one of the earliest settlers on the Darling Downs. While living and working in Queensland, Taylor made several sketches of the country around him, these being some of the earliest visual records of colonial life on the Downs. Read his biography and view a… Read More
October 23, 2020
View HGRC visiting fellow Jan Richardson’s QSA talk titled ‘Offenders, Paupers and ‘Pioneers’: Convict Women and their Families in pre-Separation Queensland here. Read More
October 15, 2020
Our resources page contains links to online resources that may be helpful with your research. Historian Thom Blake’s Queensland history eresources website covers the extent of online resources specifically on Queensland history. Some are well known, but there are plenty of obscure sites with interesting material on Queensland. Read More
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