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The Wreck of the Undine 1900: is your German ancestor here?

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by Stephanie Ryan State Library of Queensland stephanie.ryan@slq.qld.gov.au The story of this particular shipwreck was given some exciting names in the newspapers: Romance of the sea, That strange story of the sea, A tale of the sea: a mystery explained. What happened and why should we be interested? The Undine, a German barque, built in 1867, owned by Messrs. Wachsmuth and Krugmann, of Hamburg, was bringing heavy timber from the west coast of North America to Falmouth, England.  She was … Continue reading

So your ancestor was a jockey…

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by Bob McAllister Great Uncle Henry, known to the rest of the world as Squib Suddaby, had been a jockey. As a four-year-old, that meant nothing to me but it was apparently the explanation for why a cranky little man was always sitting in that strange crouch on a stool in the corner of my great-grandmother’s kitchen. Half a century later, searches in the Trove newspaper archive confirmed that H J Suddaby had indeed been a jockey. His name appeared … Continue reading

40 years of GSQ!

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From the GSQ Archives 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of the Genealogical Society of Queensland.  During the course of this year, items about its formation will be published on the blog, highlighting key milestones over the last 40 years. The first edition of the journal, Generation, was published in March 1979 as Volume 1, No 1. There were six Chapters at this time  – Ipswich, Brisbane, Toowoomba, Sunshine Coast, Bundaberg and Rockhampton. Most of the Chapters submitted a … Continue reading

All at sea – Using the passenger index for Fremantle

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Greg Cope, Assistant Director, Brisbane Office, National Archives of Australia is GSQ’s guest blogger for this week. Some of the most requested records at the National Archives of Australia would have to be passenger records, passenger lists or evidence of entry into the country. The Archives hold a range of records which includes passenger lists, nominal rolls of ships to and from Australia. Passenger cards for incoming and outgoing people both via sea and by air as well as registration … Continue reading

Disappointing for the descendants of Alma R Readford

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Guest Blogger, Janice Cooper relates her experience of an online tree Recently, I was curious to discover an online family tree which included Alma Readford as the daughter of Henry Readford and Elizabeth Jane Skuthorpe, a couple from New South Wales. The family tree indicated that she had died in 1940 and it seems possible that the brief information included there came from the death entry on the online index of the New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and … Continue reading