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Queensland -- History -- 1824-1900
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Page from the eighteen-forties

  • F2062
  • Item
  • [194-?]

History of George Mocatta and William Humphreys who were early settlers of various Queensland holdings including Mundoolan, Telemon, Nindooimbah, Wetheron and Wigton.
Written by George Mocatta's granddaughter

Queen of the colonies review, 1864 August 6

  • F484
  • Item
  • 1864

Covers the following dates : August 6, 13, 20, 27, September 3, 10, 17, 24, 1864. Periodical created for 'amusement' of passengers on board the Queen of the Colonies. Includes an abstract of the ship's log.
Accompanied by 2 leaves photocopied from 'The Presbyterian Outlook', 1931 March 1 : about Mrs J.S. Kerr (nee McLeod), who came to Brisbane with her family on the Queen of the Colonies in 1864.

How the Fitzroy was found: extracts of a journal, 1853

  • F8
  • Item
  • 1853

Typescript of extracts taken from original journal.
Extracts from a journal by Charles Archer, recounting the discovery of the Fitzroy River. Subtitled: 'Memoranda taken on a journey to the Dawson and some of its tributaries, April 1853.'

Archer, Charles, 1813-1862

Recollections of a rambling life, 1897

  • F9
  • Item
  • 1897

Autobiography of Queensland pioneer and pastoralist Thomas Archer.
First published in 1897 in Yokohama, Japan by the 'Japan Gazette' for private circulation.
This transcript was copied by hand by William James Gall (1867-1938); it concludes as Archer departs for California.

Archer, Thomas, 1823-1905

Stitt Family Papers

  • UQFL14
  • Collection
  • 1893-1934

Biographical notes, correspondence, poems, diaries, photographs, relating to the McLeod and Stitt families and their connection to Moreheads Ltd. Estate papers of P.H. Maloney; of A.W. Palfreyman; Goldsbrough Mort & Coy Ltd.; Moreheads Ltd., Brisbane; Stevedoring and Wool Dumping Coy. Ltd.

Stitt family