• Cooktown Boys' School admission register.
• Cooktown residents who signed a petition in 1874 (with the original signatures).
• Dentists and dental apprentices. Includes women.
• (Updated)  Hospital admission registers. Often more useful/accurate than certificates. May give ship of arrival.
• Illegitimate children whose father is named in an archival source.
• (Updated)  Mental asylum patients, including people suffering from epilepsy, depression and alcoholism. Look here for people who 'vanished'. There are separate indexes to several different series of records about mental asylum inmates: Public Curator insanity files; Supreme Court insanity files; Colonial Secretary's in-letters; Annual Reports; and case books.
• Nurses and masseurs (male & female).
• Old age pension records. Includes many people who were not on electoral rolls.
• Police Gazettes. Friends and relatives sought, missing persons, alleged offenders, prisoners, wife/child deserters, victims of crime, complainants, etc. Some Gazette notices include a photograph.
• Police station watchhouse records. Persons arrested and victims of crime (including children).
• Prison records. Many give ship of arrival, physical description etc.
• Undertakings re fares for travel by rail or ship (mainly interstate but some international).
• Various sources. Selected names from various sources including Grammar School records, registers of maintenance payments and protection orders, police correspondence and newsclippings re shootings, etc.
• Women granted protection orders, 1888-1904.

My indexes to other sources:

• Cemetery headstones.
• Miscellaneous Australian Certificates Index. Most were donated because they were for the wrong person.
• South-west Queensland. Names connected with Cunnamulla, Eulo, Thargomindah, Wyandra, Hungerford and Wooroorooka (some from Qld State Archives sources including court, council and school records, and others from newspapers, churches etc.)

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