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• NEW!  Cooktown residents who signed a petition in 1874. This signature may be the only surviving example of your ancestor's handwriting.
• Cemetery headstones.
• Cooktown Boys' State School admissions (Jan 1885 - May 1889).
• Dental apprentices and dentists with whom they served, Qld, 1917-1925. Includes women.
• Mental Asylum / Benevolent Asylum patients mentioned in Qld Colonial Secretary in-letters, 1860s/1870s (selected names only - see also 'Mental Asylum Patients' below).
• Nurses and masseurs (male & female).
• Police Dept. correspondence re old age pensions and invalid pensions, 1908-1952. Mainly Queenslanders, but includes a few pensioners in NSW and Victoria.
• Prisoners in Stewart's Creek Gaol (Townsville, North Qld) for part of 1893-1894.  Compiled from a register with detailed physical descriptions.
• Qld Police Gazettes. Friends and relatives sought, missing persons, alleged offenders, prisoners, wife/child deserters, victims of crime, complainants.  Selected names for various dates, mainly 1900s.  Some Gazette notices include a photograph or physical description.
• Various sources. Selected names from various sources including Grammar School records; registers of maintenance payments; witnesses at inquests; police correspondence and newsclippings re shootings; etc.
• Women granted protection orders, Qld, 1888-1904.

Major indexing projects

• Hospital admission registers.
• Mental asylum patients.
• Old age pension applicants.
• Persons arrested and victims of crime.
• Southwest Queensland (Cunnamulla, Thargomindah, Eulo etc.)
• Miscellaneous Australian certificates (births, deaths and marriages).
• Specialist Indexes in Australia: a Genealogist's Guide. An 'index of indexes'.

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