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.
John Zahl | DEAT | 04/07/1922 | 1922/C/2617 | Carl Zahl | Wilhelmine Muller | surname: Zahl | id: D646375 | refid: ce8f494bd4904dd3bba7655650232433f71ab075dbbd747c3494ca8a13fe7b65 | detailsUrl: https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/ce8f494bd4904dd3bba7655650232433f71ab075dbbd747c3494ca8a13fe7b65
Queensland BDM historical index (qld-bdm) DEAT index row, reference 1922/C/2617, found while researching #27981 (the row is not about that person). Identity: recognised as existing person #12954 (John Zahl) by exact date 04/07/1922 (tree 4 JUL 1922) (decisive match, exact_date). Supports the deathDate the tree already holds (4 JUL 1922). Built from the row's structured fields by code; the quote is the verbatim row.
Mary West | BIRT | 13/04/1879 | 1879/C/2344 | Thomas West | Mary Wardle | surname: West | id: B1601672 | refid: b55dce27a1342d4b280bf371ac32f0c5e76f950a8acb3050edd10d475bfb8d1e | detailsUrl: https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/b55dce27a1342d4b280bf371ac32f0c5e76f950a8acb3050edd10d475bfb8d1e
Queensland BDM historical index (qld-bdm) BIRT index row, reference 1879/C/2344, found while researching #60610 (the row is not about that person). Identity: recognised as existing person #12955 (Mary Ann West) by exact date 13/04/1879 (tree 13 APR 1879) (decisive match, exact_date). Supports the birthDate the tree already holds (13 APR 1879). Built from the row's structured fields by code; the quote is the verbatim row.
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Burow, Birth, 02/01/1885. Reference 1917/O/1340. Father: August Burow. Mother: Friedrike Berdrow.
Queensland birth index, record type O (delayed registration): the recorded date of birth is 2 Jan 1885, registered late in 1917 - the registration year, not the actual birth year, is what the GEDCOM import evidently took as his birth date. Parents match Ferdinand August Burow and Friedericke Berderow (spelling variants, as elsewhere in this family's Qld records). A 1885 birth also sits neatly between his documented siblings Friederike Wilhelmine Auguste (1880) and Bertha Anna (1888), where 1917 does not, and resolves the 64-year-old-mother impossibility the tree currently shows.
Name Emil Albert Lohrisch | Event Birth | Date 19/03/1880 | Reference 1880/C/3588 | Father Emil Julius Lohrisch | Mother Bertha Kleinschmidt
Queensland historical BDM index. Born seven years before his brother Emil Ferdinand (#13198); both carried the first name Emil, a common German-Lutheran naming practice in this family.
Name: Anna Ottilia Billian | Event: Death | Date: 10/05/1888 | Reference: 1888/C/2409 | Father: August Billian | Mother: Ottilia Wolff
Both parent names match the tree exactly (August Wilhelm Billiau #13269, Ottilie Auguste Mathilde Wolff #13237). Confirms she died in infancy the same year she was born; searched the rest of the tree for a second/later Anna Billiau who might indicate a reused-name conflation instead - none found.
name: Maria Auguste Dorothea Friederike Billiau | event: Death | date: 27/01/1929 | reference: 1929/B/6895 | father: Friedrich Billiau | mother: Caroline Wilhelmine Albrecht
Queensland historical death index confirms identity (both parents match the tree exactly) and death date; gives no age/birth year. Her recorded birth date, 3 AUG 1835 (sourced only to an uncited Ancestry compiled-tree pointer), is provably wrong: it makes her about 60 at Ida's birth (2 Jan 1896) and 64 at Elsie's birth (8 Aug 1899), and implausible for several of her other 11 children with Johann August Billiau spanning 1874-1899 (e.g. about 53 in 1888). No second wife is recorded. Clearing per 'provably wrong, right value unknown'; the true year is probably c.1853-1856, but that is a hypothesis, not a sourced fact. Re-verified live via QLD BDM 2026-09-17.
Helene Elizabeth Braun Birth 08/01/1892 Auguste Friedricke Elizabeth Braun 1892/C/9044
Evidence for the corrected name. She was recorded as given Auguste, surname Friedricke - a given name filed in the surname slot with no surname at all.
Anna Maria Braun Birth 28/12/1894 Auguste Friedericka Elizabeth Braun 1895/C/7230
QLD BDM birth registration for her daughter. Father column is blank. Mother's full name here, "Auguste Friedericka Elizabeth Braun", is a fuller form of what the tree holds as "Elizabeth Braun". The same full-name form (spelled Friedricke) already appears on the approved citation for a separate tree person, #22185, mother of Helene Elizabeth Braun (fam 6761) born two years earlier β raising the possibility #13270 and #22185 are one woman split into two rows. Reported separately as an incidental defect; not resolved by this proposal.
Name: Elizabeth Billian | Event: Death | Date: 05/03/1936 | Reference: 1936/B/30935 | Father: Friedrich Braun | Mother: Christine Burow
Her own death registration - matches the tree's existing death date (5 Mar 1936) and the index reference already noted on her DEAT event's summary field. Names her actual parents, settling who she is and supporting the merge in this proposal.
Name Wilhelm Frederick Litzow | Event Death | Date 18/07/1971 | Reference 1971/C/4475 | Father Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Litzow | Mother Emilie Jackwitz
Name: Emma Amelia Kamp; Event: Death; Date: 20/01/1934; Reference: 1934/C/982; Mother: Wilhelmin Wittenhagen; Father: Carl Vopagel
First citation for this person. Also corroborates her existing parent link (family 4125, Carl L. Heinrich Vorpagel & Wilhelmine Friedericke Wittenhagen) via her own death record.
Queensland historical BDM index row; confirms the existing 21 APR 1885 birth date and shows a separate registration from Emma Louisa Kerlin (reg 1886/C/7314, different parents).
Heinrich Wilhelm Draheim | DEAT | 21/04/1951 | 1951/C/1867 | Friedrich | Auguste Drewes | surname: Draheim | id: D631196 | refid: 08be73977589610204c594b5dd7869f18159ced106cbc9be717e0df0aaaf70a1 | detailsUrl: https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/08be73977589610204c594b5dd7869f18159ced106cbc9be717e0df0aaaf70a1
Queensland BDM historical index (qld-bdm) DEAT index row, reference 1951/C/1867, found while researching #9430 (the row is not about that person). Identity: recognised as existing person #13408 (Heinrich Wilhelm Draheim) by exact date 21/04/1951 (tree 21 APR 1951) (decisive match, exact_date). Supports the deathDate the tree already holds (21 APR 1951). Built from the row's structured fields by code; the quote is the verbatim row.
Name: Hermann August Zischke | Event: Birth | Date: 26/02/1885 | Reference: 1885/C/6706 | Father: Hermann August Zischke | Mother: Hermine Dott
Born 26 Feb 1885, 5 days before Hermann Albert Zischke #10039 above - two different infants, not one duplicated record. Father is Hermann August Zischke Sr #11571 (fam 4197): a father/son namesake pair, distinct from #10039's father Johann Friedrich.
Name: Franz Frederick Zischke | Event: Birth | Date: 12/09/1901 | Reference: 1901/C/8874 | Father: Gustav Carl Zischke | Mother: Belrtha Maria Mischke
Parents are Gustav Carl Zischke x Bertha Maria Mischke (fam 4200) - a different family from Franz Max Zischke #8333 above despite the similar name and birth year.
Distinct from Mary Mischke #13680, registered separately as 1900/C/8797 ("Mary Parsons Mischke", b. 20/01/1900) to the same parents. This Mary died 14 NOV 1898 aged 10 days; the given name was reused for a younger sister who lived on (aka "May Parsons" on #13680).
Queensland BDM historical index (qld-bdm) DEAT index row, reference 1939/C/576, found while researching #37652 (the row is not about that person). Identity: recognised as existing person #13713 (Wilhelmine Helmholz) by both parents William Helmholz & Minnie Wendt (tree William Helmholz & Minnie Wendt) and the DEAT year 1939 (strong match, parent_name). The tree's DEAT event exists (1939): cited only; refine the event from this row by hand. Built from the row's structured fields by code; the quote is the verbatim row.
Anna Auquste Schloss, Birth, 10/05/1882, Christian Friedrich Carl Schloss, Albertine Christiane Wessling, 1882/C/5090
Queensland historical index, births search. Columns: Name, Event, Date, Father, Mother, Registration reference. Confirms parents Christian Friedrich Carl Schloss x Albertine Christianna Wessling (family 4339), distinct from Anna Johanna Schloss #13852 (dup_person item 4632), whose own registration names different parents.
Anna Auguste Schloss, Death, 12/10/1882, Christian Friedrich Carl Schloss, Albertine Christiane Wessling, 1882/C/2646
Queensland historical index, deaths search. Columns: Name, Event, Date, Father, Mother, Registration reference. She died in infancy the same year she was born; the tree previously carried only the year 1882 for her death.
Louisa Hermine Schloss, Birth, 18/12/1901, Friedrick Herman Christian Schloss, Emma Albertine Wessling, 1902/C/8417
Queensland historical index, births search. Columns: Name, Event, Date, Father, Mother, Registration reference. Only Schloss birth registered 18 Dec 1901.
Ernstine Maria Elise MΓΌller, Death, 19/07/1968, Christian Johann Wilhelm Schloss, Christine Tisnke, 1968/C/4195
Queensland historical index, deaths search. Columns: Name, Event, Date, Father, Mother, Registration reference. Registered under her married surname MΓΌller; she married August Muller 11 JUL 1889 (1889/C/1573, also in the index).
"Martha Schloss | Death | 29/08/1912 | reg 1912/C/3124 | father=Ernest Fischer | mother=Louisa Staatz"
Ties the Schloss widow (#14004) to the Fischer parents on #31785. Her birth 1888/C/8543 of 01/09/1888 names the same couple. Note the index dates the death 29 AUG, not 29 JUL as the tree has it.
Martha Fischer, birth 01/09/1888, father Ernst Fischer, mother Loise Staatz. Reference 1888/C/8543
Queensland birth index. Confirms the tree's date and both parents, so the parent link in family 4441 is right and only the mother's birth year was wrong.
Queensland historical birth index, searched 2026-08-29. Columns in the order quoted: Name, Event, Date, Father, Mother, Reference. Birth date matches person #14004 to the day; the index spells the mother Loise. The certificate itself was not viewed.
Augusta Schloss, Birth, 25/10/1890, Christian Friedrich Carl Schloss, Albertina Christina Wessling, 1890/C/10240
Queensland historical index, births search. Columns: Name, Event, Date, Father, Mother, Registration reference. Registered as 'Augusta Schloss'; the tree records her as Augusta Johanna Schloss, b. 25 OCT 1890.
Norman William Muller, Birth, 29/04/1918, father Johannes August Muller, mother Bertha Anna Matilda Kammholz, 1918/C/5602
QLD BDM birth index row. Matches tree parents Johannes August Muller x Bertha Annie Matilda Kammholz (fam 4447) and birth date 29 APR 1918 exactly. Distinguishes from #69145 and #37444, three unrelated Norman Mullers born 1918-1919 in different families (items #4642, #4643).
Emma Marie Voss, birth 04/11/1888, father Friederich Christian Martin Voss, mother Pauline Mathilda Loschke. Reference 1888/C/8705
Queensland birth index, newly added. Confirms Emma's parents were physically in Queensland to register her birth 4 Nov 1888 β which is what makes sister Wilhelmine's recorded German birth 93 days earlier (Demmin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) impossible for the same mother.
Marie Profke | Death | 14/09/1901 | - Dewantier | Augusta - | 1901/C/3521
This is Marie Dewantier/Profke's own death registration (see companion citation on #8986); it names her mother's given name as Augusta with no surname recorded. The tree previously filed 'August' as this person's SURNAME with no given name - the reverse of the record. Supports given=Augusta, surname=null (unknown), not a new vital date for this person.
QLD BDM historical index (deaths). Confirms her parents Christian Goetz #14205/Christina Schilling #14206 (family #4485), already recorded in the tree. Does not name her husband.
Name: Augusta Matilda Schmoekel | Event: Death | Date: 02/08/1886 | Reference: 1886/C/1470 | Father: August Schmoekel | Mother: Matilda Zuch
The couple's daughter died 2 Aug 1886 (a different date from infant #12130's 2 Jun 1886 birth/death), with her mother again named as an adult 'Matilda Zuch' distinct from #12130. Corroborates the conflation.
Name: Augusta Matilda Schmoekel | Event: Birth | Date: 02/06/1886 | Reference: 1886/C/3221 | Father: August Friedrich Schmoekel | Mother: Matilda Martha Zuch
Fills the previously null birth date/place on the existing person; matches the family's known daughter (death 1886/C/1470, already cited). Distinct from severed infant #12130 who also happens to have been born 2 Jun 1886 in a different Zuch family (#3746) and died the same day.
Herman Adolf Beutel | Birth | 06/02/1889 | reg 1889/C/9145 | father=Christian Friedrich Beutel | mother=Marie Auguste Emilie Wendt
Corrects the tree's month (was 6 MAR 1889) to the register's 6 FEB 1889. Distinct from Hermann Beutel #52916 (parents William Frederick Beutel & Augusta Hoepner, family 16041) - review item 4646.
Arthur Peters | Death | 13/02/1897 | 1897/C/2968 | Father: John Peters | Mother: Helena Elizabeth Muller
QLD BDM historical index, Deaths. Confirms the infant death already recorded; #14504 died before #20511 (a different family's Arthur Frederick) was even born.