Genealogy Australia

Directories are an invaluable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. While they do not give you birth, death and marriage details - core records for genealogists and family historians - they can certainly provide you with information on the region where your ancestors lived, as well as information on their occupation and much more.

This compendium of Wise's Queensland directories covers 1911-1915. Each is very comprehensive containing the following sub-directories:

• Brisbane post office directory, with information on residents alphabetically by street
• Country towns (including many which are now suburbs of Brisbane): in general, it gives the location, other significant details about the town and a listing of residents
• Overall Alphabetical directory
• Trades
• Legal - includes barristers, solicitors, and conveyancers
• Medical – includes hospitals and the medical board, medical practitioners, pharmaceutical chemists, dentists and masseuses
• Educational – includes teachers at Private schools as well as teachers of music, dancing, painting, elocution and languages
• Ecclesiastical – Church of England, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist, German Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Queensland Methodist, Seventh Day Adventist, Hebrew, Salvation Army, United German and Scandinavian Lutheran, Lutheran Synod, Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic Apostolic, Church of Christ, Independent Methodist, Moravian, New Jerusalem, United Methodist Free Church, United Welsh Church, Joyful News, Christian, Bavarian Lutheran (the list varies between years)
• Pastoral and Agricultural: one listing according to the type of enterprise (for example, sugar refiners, sugar planters, vignerons, arrowroot manufacturers, coffee planters, fruit growers, and poultry farmers) and another an alphabetical listing of stations, runs and grazing farms
• Local Government
• Official – lists the federal representatives for each state, key Commonwealth Departmental officials and similar state representatives and officials for Queensland
• and hundreds of advertisements

Example entry:

GUN MAKERS & SMITHS
Bauman Jos, 171 Geo st, Bris
Bosanko Edw, Cairns
Eckstein Johann, Adel st, Maryborough
Fassler Chas J, Toowoomba
Hansen Hans P, Rockhampton

These directories contain hundreds of thousands of people, many with occupations and addresses and gives insight into the second decade of life in 20th century Queensland.

Each volume is available individually:
Queensland Post Office Directory 1911 (Wise)
Queensland Post Office Directory 1912 (Wise)
Queensland Post Office Directory 1913 (Wise)
Queensland Post Office Directory 1914 (Wise)
Queensland Post Office Directory 1915 (Wise)

This compendium contains high quality scanned images of the original books, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

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