Free official index. Death rows name BOTH parents, which is what makes it the key to an emigrant's parentage in the country they left. Certificates are purchased separately and were not viewed.
Marriage. Louise Staatz and Ernst Fischer. Date of event: 30/08/1882. Registration: 1882/C/1093
Tree marriage date was 1882; Qld BDM marriage registration gives 30 AUG 1882. BDM record preferred. Groom registered as Ernst Fischer; this is Ernest Albert Devantier (also known as Ernest Albert Fischer and Ernest Krakow).
John Patrick Gunn | Marriage | 11/09/1930 | 1930/C/2043 | Grace Agnes Spencer
Row from the Queensland historical marriage index, field values quoted in the index's own column order: subject name | event | date | registration reference | spouse. Retrieved 2026-08-29 from the registry's search endpoint (surname Gunn, spouse Spencer; the surname filter is fuzzy, this was the only Gunn row returned). Queensland marriage rows do not name parents. Date matches family #10288's recorded 11 SEP 1930 exactly.
John Patrick Gunn | Marriage | 11/09/1930 | 1930/C/2043 | Spouse: Grace Agnes Spencer
Row from the Queensland historical marriage index, quoted in the index's own column order; retrieved 2026-08-30. Confirms the tree's existing 11 SEP 1930 to the day. Queensland marriage rows carry no parents, so the identification rests on the full names of both parties matching (John Patrick Gunn, Grace Agnes Spencer) together with the exact date already in the tree.
Name: Ferdinand Johann Brandenburg | Event: Marriage | Date: 12/06/1940 | Reference: 1940/B/39583 | Spouse: Nelly Amelia Flügge
QLD BDM marriage index detail page, precise date for the existing family startDate/MARR event. Bride's surname on this index row (Flügge) conflicts with her own death registration (father Joseph Atkins) and the tree's Nellie Amelia Atkins — not resolved here, left for a human; either a prior marriage or a transcription issue.
Joseph Platz | Marriage | 04/06/1857 | Therese Kohler | 1859/C/124
Queensland historical marriage index row, fields in the index's own column order: Name | Event | Date | Spouse | Registration number. Solemnised 4 JUN 1857, registered 1859 (the tree's inherited bare year). The husband cannot be Joseph Platz Jr (#46105, b.1870) since he was not yet born; he must be his father Joseph Platz Sr (#11268, b.1831 d.1889), whose own family #3484 (m. Friedricka Magdalena Clarius, 1869) is a later, second marriage. husbandId repointed from #46105 to #11268.
Irene Victoria Breitkreutz | MARR | 28/05/1926 | 1926/C/1419 | Anthony Henry Peter Althaus | surname: Breitkreutz | id: M472931-1 | refid: dbf7a47f5d24f1db054178731e55c8db6ef882739dc8c386901ab3917d053ff8 | detailsUrl: https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/dbf7a47f5d24f1db054178731e55c8db6ef882739dc8c386901ab3917d053ff8
Queensland BDM historical index (qld-bdm), MARR search. Reading: marriage of Irine Victoria Breitkreutz to Anthony Henry Peter Althaus on 28 MAY 1926. Identity: exact_date (record "28/05/1926" ↔ tree "28 MAY 1926 (marriage to Anthony Henry Peter Althaus)"). Extracted by the local model; the quote is verbatim from the fetched text. Cited on the existing MARR event #119610.
Johann Adam Welk | Marriage | 25/07/1867 | Caroline Wilhelmine Hafenmeister | 1867/C/277
QLD BDM marriage index row, columns Name|Event|Date|Spouse|Reference. Searched surname Welk given Adam: this is the ONLY marriage registration found for Adam Welk (also re-checked with a surname-only search, 153 relevance rows read, no second hit for Welk). Predates Friedericka Welk's 19 Apr 1868 birth by about 9 months.
Name: Colin James Hafemeister known as Halfmaster | Event: Marriage | Date: 09/10/1937 | Reference: 1937/B/29406 | Spouse: Rita Lilian Viles
The direct proof: Colin James's OWN marriage registration records his alias as "Halfmaster" - the identical aka #45034 (the infant) was wrongly carrying before this split. Moved here where it belongs.
John Enuch Steer | Marriage | 31/12/1902 | Bertha Emily Epple | 1903/C/1567
Columns Name | Event | Date | Spouse | Reference. Confirms Bertha Emily Epple's marriage to John Enuch Steer (#46194), already recorded in the tree as family #13884 with startDate 1903. The marriage itself occurred 31 Dec 1902 but was registered under the 1903 index reference; tree's bare '1903' is consistent, not contradicted.
Queensland historical BDM index, marriage search surname Hanschildt given Bertha. Matches family #13965's recorded marriage year (1887) and spouse exactly — proves #46369 is a distinct, fully registered adult.
QLD historical BDM index row, columns Name/Event/Date/Spouse/Reference. Dates the 1909 marriage precisely; family.startDate synced to match, no separate citation needed there.
Bertie Ivo Bligh | Marriage | 31/07/1913 | Spouse: Mary Lucy Corcoran | 1913/C/622
Registrar's date for the marriage of #50071 and #50070, refining the tree's bare 1913 on both the family row and the MARR event. Retrieved this session by searching surname Bligh with spouse Corcoran, which returns exactly one registration. Their eldest child Alice Beatrice Bligh is dated 1913 in the tree, so the July date is consistent. Queensland marriages publish to 1944, so this one is inside the window. The index gives no place; the event's existing place is left as it stands.
Richard John Blakeney Bligh | Marriage | 06/11/1879 | Spouse: Kate O'Keeffe | 1879/C/227
Registrar's date for the marriage of #50077 and #50078, refining the tree's bare 1879 on both the family row and the MARR event. Retrieved this session by searching surname Bligh with spouse O'Keeffe; the reciprocal search on surname O'Keeffe returns the same single registration. The bride is indexed as Kate O'Keeffe, and appears as Catherine Angela and Kate Angeline O'Keeffe on her children's registrations - the tree's Katherine Angela O'Keefe. The index gives no place, so the event's existing place is left as it stands.
"Cummin Katter | Marriage | 22/04/1944 | Mabel Joan Horn | 1944/B/59266"
Queensland historical marriage index, searched 2026-08-28. The registry indexes him under the given name Cummin only; his own birth registration is 1918/B/53701 "Cummin Katter", father Carl Robert Katter, mother Vivian Bridget Warby, born 05/09/1918 - matching this tree record exactly (b. 5 SEP 1918, father Carl Robert Katter #52289, mother Bridget Warby #52290). The index registration is primary evidence of the legal marriage date and contradicts the tree's 1943.
Andrew Lang Petrie | Marriage | 04/01/1877 | Spouse: Margaret Aird | 1877/B/5461
Refines the tree's bare 1877 for the first marriage, to #55747 Margaret Aird. Found by searching surname Petrie with spouse Aird; it is the only Petrie-Aird marriage in the index. The Queensland Parliament register independently gives '(1) Margaret Aird on 4 January 1877', so register and registration agree to the day here - unlike the second marriage. The index gives no place; the event's existing place is left as it stands.
Andrew Lang Petrie | Marriage | 14/04/1886 | Spouse: Eliza Anne Agnes Luya | 1886/B/10489
Registrar's date, confirming the tree's existing 14 APR 1886 against the Queensland Parliament register's 14 April 1887. Found by two routes; it is the only Petrie-Luya marriage in the index, and no 1887 registration exists for them. Nothing was changed; this citation exists so the register's year error is not applied later.
Karl Jocumsen, marriage 28/04/1880, other party Hansine Sorensen, 1880/C/713.
Same QLD BDM registration already cited on family #18245 (citation #37611); added here so the MARR event itself carries its own provenance, matching the family's startDate.
Michael Nagle | Marriage | 01/01/1894 | 1894/C/1515 | spouse: Florence Ryder
Queensland historical BDM index row; columns: name | event | date (dd/mm/yyyy) | registration reference | spouse. Confirms the family's existing marriage date exactly.
Hermann Heinrich Gustav Bundrock | Marriage | 09/10/1902 | 1902/C/1776 | Spouse: Anna Maria Hohnke
Queensland historical BDM index row (columns: name | event | date | registration no. | spouse). Marriage date matches family #19499's recorded startDate exactly, independently confirming Anna Maria Hohnke as a real, distinct person from her sister Anna Emilie (#63114).
Oliver Elias Heath | Marriage | 09/02/1927 | Eleanor Joyce Mellefont | 1927/B/271
Queensland historical BDM marriage index row (columns as displayed by genealogy-cli: name | event | date | spouse | reference). Confirms this 9 Feb 1927 marriage belongs to Eleanor Joyce Mellefont (b. 23 Jul 1901, #64409), not the infant Joyce L Mellefont (b. 1922, #64475) whom proposal #1131 correctly detached from a duplicate family shell (#20014) bearing this same date.
Alexander William Jardine | MARR | 04/01/1883 | 1883/B/8101 | Charlotte Elizabeth Mossman | surname: Jardine | id: M294676-1 | refid: 68efed3c54399582825e06214f9a128bad363d92bb86ae6c7db67f804a1fb781 | detailsUrl: https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/68efed3c54399582825e06214f9a128bad363d92bb86ae6c7db67f804a1fb781
Queensland BDM historical index (qld-bdm), MARR search. Reading: marriage of Charlotte Elizabeth Mosman to Alexander William Jardine on 4 JAN 1883. Identity: exact_date (record "04/01/1883" ↔ tree "4 JAN 1883 (marriage to Alexander William Jardine)"). Extracted by the local model; the quote is verbatim from the fetched text. Cited on the existing MARR event #123226.