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The Queensland Native Mounted Police Research Database

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

Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying

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

Honora Bagnall biography

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

Commissioner of Crown Lands, Arthur Edward Halloran

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

19th century police officer service histories now online

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

Zion Hill Mission

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

Early settler and artist Thomas John Domville Taylor

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

HGRC QSA talk

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

Qld history eresources website

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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