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Welcome to the QueenslandPortal on Geni=This is a sub-project of the Australian Portal This Queensland Portal has been created to: * Link together existing Queensland projects * Encourage new Queensland projects to be created * Encourage collaboration between Queensland-based Geni users, and Geni users worldwide who have Queensland interests and connections * Promote and facilitate Queensland g...
Prussian (German, Polish, Slav, Russian, Wendish) settlement in Queensland Australia==Germans/Prussians began to settle in Australia in large numbers in 1838, with the arrival of immigrants from Prussia to Queensland. German immigrants were prominent in settling South Australia and Queensland . Between 1850 until World War I, German settlers and their descendants comprised the largest non-Briti...
The bad ship Beejapore brought 967 government-sponsored emigrants from Scotland to Australia in 1852-3, including about 240 Paisley weavers. Half of the adults were said to hail from the Isle of Skye (Source: ?). The passengers included 342 children; 56 passengers died en route, mostly of measles, 55 of them children (including newborn infants) and one a teenager. The makeup of the passengers w...
Bound for Queensland In 1823, John Oxley, a British explorer, sailed north from what is now Sydney to scout possible penal colony sites in Gladstone (then Port Curtis) and Moreton Bay. At Moreton Bay, he found the Brisbane River. He returned in 1824 and established a settlement at what is now Redcliffe. The settlement, initially known as Edenglassie, was then transferred to the current location...
Please add your Queensland, Australia family who served in the armed forces.If you can, please add the information of service, service number etc. on the profile and add the service documents to the sources.==Resources* Discovering Anzacs * Australian War Memorial This project is included in The History Link Project - Trace your ancesters! you can add projects here