Information regarding the GSQ Databases
Funeral Director and Burial Records
GSQ has an arrangment with various Funeral Directors to provide access to records of funerals - these include a range of information including names of the deceased and possibly relatives, names of the individual who paid for the funeral, cost of the funeral including indications of newspaper entries, location of the burial/crematorium and burial place/ashes interred.
An index to the names of the deceased is based on the Surname. The index provides information on the date of burial and a reference to assist with access at the GSQ Resource Centre.
Current holdings include:
Cannon & Cripps; Alex Gow; Metropolitan - Regions for Central, Western, The Coasts, Northern; Tucker and Nankivell; TT Cornes; KM Smith; John Hislop; Funerals of Distinction; JG Lorisch; Le Grand
Included in this database at present are Mt Thompson Cremations in Brisbane; Lone Graves; and a variety of Burial Indexes and Monumental Inscriptions from all over Qld.
These records are on microfiche in Cabinet 1. These images can be copied to USB or printed. Copies can also be requested via our Research Services.
Alex Gow 1989 - 1996
This index includes the images
Le Grand Funeral Directors 1891 - 1983
This index includes the images
Cemetery Demolition Indexes
Brisbane Cemetery Ref 820/102 & Toowong Cemetery Ref 820/066
In 1975, hundreds of worn, supposedly forgotten headstones in three major city cemeteries were removed by Brisbane City Council for redevelopment. Two cemeteries were Toowong and South Brisbane.
Kay Aberdeen indexed all the names along with the page of the book where further information may be available at GSQ.
QLD Methodist Times 1965 - 1969
This was the official communication newspaper from the church synod to its congregations. It was orginally published as a weekly periodical and is now published monthly. Distributed to all congregations, it kept members aware of the church's wider mission at home and overseas. It included editorial, inspirational messages, personal stories, youth pages, obituaries and some advertising.
Index contains images
The Waterloo Soldiers in Australia
Files donated to GSQ by Kerrie Alexander. Stories and information on over 120 veterans who spent time in Australia. Some arrived aboard convict ships as guards, others as free settlers and a couple as convicts themselves.
There are images as well as pdf files.
Wheeler Project
GSQ transcribed the index cards held by the State Library Queensland compiled during WW1 by central Queenslander, Annie Margaret Wheeler (nee Laurie). These hold the names of 2794 soldiers and nurses. Mrs Wheeler recognised the difficulties facing servicemen and women and their families in central Qld maintaing contact. She kept a detailed card index on each, corresponding with soldiers and nurses on the battlefield; liaising with their families, fowarding mail and parcels, superving their care in hospital and providing financial assistance during their recuperation in England.
Queensland Muster Roll:
Muster people; Muster Spouse; Muster Children
The Muster Roll is a biographical register of over 25,000 pioneers resident in the colony of Queensland between Separation in 1859 and Federation in 1901, and important period of Queensland history, when it had its own unique identity, neither part of the colony of New South Wales nor a state in the Australian Federation.
Originally created as a Bicentennial project in 1988, the Q150 (2009) project has been updated and additions made to the existing register through contributiions from GSQ members and other family historians.
The register contain birth and family details; occupations, businesses and properties; death details; and names of spouses and children, as well as other known facts about individuals.
This database was developed with the ability to jump from one section to another via hyperlinks. These no longer are working, hence at this stage the information is in separate indexes. We will work on this.
Queensland Communal Settlers Register 1893 - 1896
Settlements People - working on the actual Settlement names.
Between December 1893 and February 1896 up to 2000 people lived in government sponsored communes across Queensland. In response to high unemployment, a severe economic downturn, disastrous flooding and a surge in popularity of communal experimentation, the Queensland Government introduced The Co-operative Communites Land Settlement Act of 1893. Under the terms of the Act agricultural land was made available to groups of 30 or more men who were prepared to live on and farm the land communally. The men had to be aged 18 or over, natural born or naturalised British subjects and to have been resident in Queensland for at least a year. Twelve groups were formed, initially with a total of 485 male members, most of whom were married with families. A further 61 members were admitted later. One group was formed entirely of Ipswich residents, however most groups were comprised of men from Brisbane with a small number of members drawn from places such as Cairns, Charters Towers, Charleville and Thargomindah.
The register lists the 546 members of the settlements.
(Further information regarding this database will be added later)
GSQ Unrelated Certificates holdings
These certificates have been donated by members who have obtained them in Australia and from overseas and either found them to be unrelated to their research or they no longer require them as they are now digitised.
If you have certificates you would like to share, please contact the webcoordinator@gsq.org.au
All the images have been scanned but there are some errors, please advise.
Please note that Chapman codes have been used to denote locations.
Family Tree Charts
This index was compiled by Jennifer Chandler and Sondra Stafford. It is of the Family Tree charts held at GSQ Resource centre. Information varies in all the charts - might only consist of a name, surname of spouse, dates either entered or not and the same in relation to places. Index is on Surnames.
These are held at the GSQ Resource centre for you to view.
Pedigree Charts
GSQ members over the years have donated pedigree charts covering on an average 5 generations.
The charts are numbered and the numbers correspond to the folders at the GSQ resource centre for you to find further information.
Please take note of the Reference number.