Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (1034 pages)
Author: H. Wise
Year: (1917) 2011
ISBN: 9781921957253
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

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 large Wise’s directory for 1917-1918 is comprehensive in its coverage. It contains the following directories:

• Brisbane and South Brisbane post office directories, 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 – included are full street directories for Bundaberg, Charters Towers, Maryborough, Toowoomba, Rockhampton and Townsville
• Overall Alphabetical directory
• Trades (from Academies to Woven Wire Fencing Manufacturer)
• Legal
• Medical – includes hospitals and medical / dental boards (doctors, dentists etc appear under the Trades Section)
• Educational
• Ecclesiastical – Church of England, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist, German Baptist, Queensland Methodist, Seventh Day Adventists, Salvation Army, United German & Scandinavian Lutheran, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, Catholic Apostolic, Church of Christ, United Welsh Church, United Danish Evangelical Lutheran, Christian, Brisbane City Mission, Bavarian Lutheran, Brisbane Society of the New Church, Christadelphian, Joyful News Mission, Peoples Evangelical Mission
• Pastoral and Agricultural: one listing according to the type of enterprise (for example, apiarists, arrowroot manufacturers, coffee planters, fruit growers, and sugar planters) and another an alphabetical listing of stations, runs and grazing farms with over 1,500 sheep and 300 cattle
• Local Government
• Harbours, Rivers and Ports
• Official – lists the federal representatives for each state, key Commonwealth Departmental officials and similar state representatives and officials for Queensland
• Postal, Telegraph & Money Orders
• and hundreds of advertisements

SAMPLE ENTRY:

LUCINDA. 28 m S fr Cardwell at entrance to Herbert River
Adams Tom, lightkpr
Bartels C, Royal Hotel
Fehring H, foreman
Ferguson Miss E, teacher
Forsyth Jno, boatman
Jones Arth, Coxswain Stn
Kelly Mrs H P, pstmstrss
McAllister W
Ogg Eric V, shipping agent
Rigby A T, wharfinger

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

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text