Indexes and Finding Aids
Marriage Index
This index is for Marriage Registers (1843-1910) for the Diocese of Brisbane, covering the area from Bundaberg to Coolangatta and west to the South Australia / Northern Territory borders.
The index was created in 1999 from marriage registers as then held by the Archives. Since then, the majority of registers as transferred to the Archives have been after 1910.
There are a number of ‘tags’ in the index which signify the following:
[W] Widow or Widower
[B] Marriage Blessing
[D] Remarriage of divorced person
[FNP] or [TSI] Entry includes reference to First Nation Person/s
[SSI] Entry includes reference to South Sea Islander
[*] Some irregularities in the record (such as entry not signed by all parties)
[?] Full information either not supplied, transcript is doubtful, not possible to decipher or confirm from other sources
[RM] Remarriage – e.g. previously married in Roman Catholic church
Every effort has been made to check and confirm the entries in this index - in particular, where the transcript is hard to decipher. Where the spelling of a name is unclear, we have deferred to the online marriage entries as published by the Queensland Registrar-General for Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Please contact the Archives if you have a question or enquiry regarding the content of any of the index entries, or for marriages conducted after 1910.
Baptisms - Gayndah
This index covers the baptisms recorded in the first Baptism Registers for the Parish of Gayndah. The register contains entries for the Burnett District (1860 to 1877) and for Gayndah (1891 to 1894). There is a second register (as yet not indexed) which contains entries for Gayndah from 1882 to 1891. The indexes have been collated in the order that they were recorded in the registers.
Several of the entries note German and Chinese settlers, and there are also references to First Nations peoples. Additional information and links from other sources have been included where the individual or family are notable e.g. convict background.
Every effort has been made to check and confirm the entries in this index - in particular, where the transcript is hard to decipher. As with the Marriage Index, we have deferred to the Queensland Registrar-General’s spelling when the transcript is unclear.
Please contact the Archives if you have a question or enquiry regarding the content of any of the index entries.
Bush Notes
Bush Notes was the monthly newsletter produced by the Charleville Bush Brothers, or, to use their later name, the Brotherhood of St. Paul. The Brotherhood covered a large area of southern Queensland, from its headquarters in Charleville to areas such as Cunnamulla, Mitchell, and St. George. The Bush Notes series often included items taken from the Church Chronicle and reproduced, but also vital specific information relating to the territories covered by the Bush Brothers.
Each monthly edition also included pages noting the baptisms, marriages, and burials that the brothers conducted for the previous month. Archival staff have indexed the entries from 1905 to 1960, and links to the indexes are included within the images below.
