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 - the core records for genealogists - they can certainly provide you with information on the region where your ancestors lived, as well as information on their occupation and more ...
This large Wise's directory is comprehensive in its coverage. It contains not just a post office directory, with information on residents together with their address (street-by-street), but also the following directories:
- Brisbane and suburbs
- towns
- trades
- country
- medical
- legal
- ecclesiastical
- educational
- banking and finance
- insurance
- local government
- pastoral and agricultural
- official
- and hundreds of advertisements
This directory contains hundreds of thousands of people, many with occupations and addresses and gives insight into 1890s Queensland.
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged
and printed out if required.
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