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.
Heinrich Paul Mengel | Birth | 02/07/1880 | reg 1880/C/1884 | father=Henry Mengel | mother=Catharina Goebel
Distinct registration from his brother Heinrich Mengel #47882 (1882/C/2448, 25 May 1882) - confirms these are two separate sons of Conrad (registered here as 'Henry') Mengel and Catharina Goebel, not the same child duplicated. Queensland historical BDM index, births search; row values only, no per-record image opened.
Distinct registration from his brother Heinrich Paul Mengel #47880 (1880/C/1884, 2 Jul 1880) - two separate sons, not a duplicate. Queensland historical BDM index; row values only.
Johann Truss | Death | 05/06/1902 | John George Truss | - Truss | 1902/C/1448
Queensland historical death index, columns Name | Event | Date | Father | Mother | Reference. The father named is John George Truss, which is #48370's father #48379 in the tree; the mother's given name is not indexed.
Catharina Truss | Birth | 10/03/1878 | Johannes Truss | Anna Maria Zimmerle | 1878/C/1437
Queensland historical index, birth search on surname Truss / given Catharina 1876-1880, retrieved 2026-08-29. Columns: name | event | date | father | mother | registration number. The only Catharina Truss birth in that window; date and both parents match family #14600.
Name: Emma Louisa Begick | Event: Death | Date: 23/12/1907 | Reference: 1907/C/3596 | Father: Albert Beiske Reiske | Mother: Bertha Horn
Parents match the tree's Emma Louise Reiske's own parents Albert Julius Reiske + Bertha Horn (family #14732) exactly. Same-day death as Doris's birth (both 23 Dec 1907) — Emma died in or shortly after childbirth, not 11+ months before Doris was born as the year-only dates '1907'/'1908' implied.
Dorothy May Diggles | Birth | 09/05/1906 | | Mary Elizabeth Diggles | 1906/B/12039
Queensland historical birth index, columns Name | Event | Date | Father | Mother | Reference. Father column empty; mother Mary Elizabeth Diggles matches the tree exactly. Fills the day/month onto the tree's existing year-only birth date (1906).
Dorothy Diggles | Death | 31/08/1906 | - | Mary Elizabeth Diggles | 1906/B/7129
Queensland historical death index, columns Name | Event | Date | Father | Mother | Reference. Father column is '-'; mother Mary Elizabeth Diggles matches the tree exactly (register drops the 'May' middle name). Fills the day/month onto the tree's existing year-only death date (1906).
Walter Patrick Caffery | Birth | 05/02/1912 | Patrick Caffery | Alice Hawthorn | 1912/C/12703
Same-day birth as half-sibling Cecile Caffery (Sarah Lenehan household) - both wives bore children on 5 Feb 1912, consistent with the note above about two concurrent households.
Patrick Caffery | Death | 24/04/1921 | Patrick Caffery | Ann Clarke | 1921/C/1831
Parents Patrick Caffery/Ann Clarke match this Patrick's own birth registration (17/02/1861, same parents) already in the tree, confirming he is one man across both marriage records (Sarah Jane Lenehan 1897, Alice Hawthorn 1907).
Owen Caffery | Death | 24/07/1911 | Patrick Caffery | Ann Clarke | 1911/C/2006
Confirms person #49024 (b.1877, parents Patrick Caffery + Ann Clarke) died 1911, not 1955 as previously recorded; consistent with his 1909 marriage to Bridget Marsh and their 1910 daughter Mary Agnes.
Kathleen Coffery | Birth | 22/12/1905 | Patrick Coffery | Sarah Lenchan | 1906/C/3188
Surname transcribed "Coffery" throughout this row; father Patrick, mother Sarah Lenchan match every other Sarah-Lenehan-household sibling, and no other Caffery/Coffery child fits - quality 2 for the spelling gap. Fills a previously-null birth date.
Name: Ernest Lyttleton Groom; Event: Birth; Date: 14/09/1863; Father: William Henry Groom; Mother: Grace Lyttleton; Reference: 1863/C/296 || Name: Ernest Littleton Groom; Event: Death; Date: 08/09/1864; Father: William Henry Groom; Mother: Grace Littleton; Reference: 1864/C/126 || Name: Littleton Ernest Groom; Event: Birth; Date: 22/04/1867; Father: William Henry Groom; Mother: Grace Littleton; Reference: 1867/C/599
Establishes that #49784 and #49789 (Sir Littleton Ernest Groom) are two different children of the same couple, not one person duplicated. Three separate registrations, each naming both parents: a birth in 1863, that child's death in 1864, and a further birth in 1867. This is the reused-given-name pattern, with the names reversed. No merge is warranted.
William Arthur Robert Goeldner | Death | 28/09/1920 | 1920/B/33001 | William Arthur Goeldner | Louisa Christina Fischle
Queensland BDM death index row; same columns and same parents as the 1913 birth entry — this child died young, aged about 6. Re-checked live via gen qld-bdm --type deaths: confirmed as a Death row, not a re-registered birth.
Bertie Ivo Bligh | Birth | 30/08/1889 | Father: Richard John Blakeney Bligh | Mother: Catherine Angela O'Keeffe | 1889/C/2165
Registrar's evidence for this person's parents, exactly the tree's #50077 and #50078, and for an exact birth date of 30 AUG 1889 where the tree holds only the year.
Bertie Ivo Bligh | Death | 23/07/1946 | Father: Richard John Blakney | Mother: Kate Angeline O'Keefe | 1946/C/4481
Second, independent registrar's statement of the same parentage, from the death registration, and an exact death date of 23 JUL 1946 where the tree holds only the year. Birth and death registrations agreeing on both parents is about as firm as this index gets.
Richard John Blakney Bligh | Death | 03/12/1925 | Father: Richard Bligh | Mother: Marie Isabel Fennel | 1925/C/4408
THE KEY LINK. The Queensland death registration of this person names his parents as Richard Bligh and Marie Isabel Fennel - the tree's #50085 and #50086, whose 1847 marriage notice is cited on family 15136. This is registrar's evidence, not a compiled tree, and it is what ties the Queensland Blighs to the Sydney family that descends from Governor Bligh. It also gives an exact death date of 3 DEC 1925 where the tree holds only the year.
Name: Charlotte Elizabeth Bligh | Event: Birth | Date: 28/12/1864 | Reference: 1865/C/577 | Father: John O'Connell Bligh | Mother: Charlotte Eliza Dick || Name: Charlotte Lucy O'Connell Bligh | Event: Birth | Date: 28/12/1864 | Reference: 1865/C/577 | Father: John O'Connell Bligh | Mother: Charlotte Eliza Dick
Index rows, columns Name/Event/Date/Reference/Father/Mother as printed. The SAME registration number and date appear under both given-name renderings, i.e. one birth indexed twice under different name substrings of a longer full name — evidence #50169 and #50260 are one child.
Charlotte Lucy O'Connell Nutting, Death, 21/12/1960, father John O'Connell Bligh, mother Elizabeth Dick, 1960/B/42067
QLD BDM index columns: Name, Event, Date, Father, Mother, Reference. Registered under married surname Nutting; parents match the tree's existing John O'Connell Bligh and Charlotte Elizabeth Dick, confirming identity.
Julia Jones Bloomer | Marriage | 19/02/1931 | Archibald Alexander Lawson | 1931/B/10247
Queensland historical BDM marriage index row; column order Name | Event | Date | Spouse | Registration number. Julia's 1931 remarriage names her 'Julia Jones Bloomer', confirming she was a widow of a man surnamed Bloomer -- consistent with the Thomas Bloomer identified above.