Queensland residents pre-1859

Welcome to our online archive of Queensland residents who lived prior to 1859.

Rev Edward Griffith - Source: Brisbane Museum

discover the ancestry
of queensland’s early
colonial period.

We are documenting the lives and experiences of people, groups and organisations that have not been the subject of historical investigation by collating an inventory of the diversity and claims on country that made up the early colonial period. We welcome you to search our archives and to also submit your own ancestoral biographies.

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Rev Edward Griffith

1801 - 1850

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Sarah Birkett

1790 - 1821

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Rose Davis

1701 - 1784

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James Postman

1821 - 1899

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George Birkett

1786 - 1820

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Name Year or Arrival Year of Birth Place of Birth Queensland Residence
Silvester Diggles 1855 1791 England Bardon, Brisbane
MARIA ARCHER 1855 1780 England Bardon, Brisbane
JANE ARMATYS 1855 1801 England Bardon, Brisbane
MYRON ARTHUR 1855 1791 England Bardon, Brisbane
JUNE ASHTON 1855 1791 England Bardon, Brisbane
DIANE BAILLIE 1855 1791 England Bardon, Brisbane
RICHARD BAKER 1855 1791 England Bardon, Brisbane
BARBARA BALAAM 1855 1791 England Bardon, Brisbane
HELEN BEASLEY 1855 1791 England Bardon, Brisbane
ANDREW BEATTIE 1855 1791 England Bardon, Brisbane

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