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Name: Carl August Schmidt | Event: Marriage | Date: 17/07/1894 | Reg. No.: 1894/C/1311 | Spouse: Ann Maria Nitschinsk
Queensland BDM marriage index row. The bride is Ann Maria Nitschinsk (b. 15 Jun 1873, d. 11 Mar 1957, #19281, a spelling variant of 'Anna Maria'), not Anna Amelia Nitschinsk (#19285, b. 1906) who was not born until 12 years later. Re-pointing the wife slot to #19281.
Samuel Benstead married Annie Jocumsen, 20/12/1893, Queensland marriage registration 1893/C/1310.
Fixes the marriage date and confirms the wife's identity. Their nine children are all registered in Queensland to Samuel Benstead and Annie (Christina) Jocumsen: Maud Elizabeth 24/02/1895 (1895/C/8240), Samuel 09/12/1896 (1896/C/8127), Elsie 17/08/1899 (1899/C/10311), William James Warren 18/11/1901 (1901/C/10944), John Leslie 03/01/1905 (1905/C/7576), Auderie Annie 12/11/1907 (1908/C/7628), James Tweede 23/11/1909 (1910/C/1068), Alma Jean 13/08/1913 (1913/C/5388), David 26/06/1917 (1917/C/5381). A woman marrying in 1893 was not born in 1910.
Karl Jocumsen, marriage 28/04/1880, other party Hansine Sorensen, 1880/C/713.
Supplies the marriage date for this family. It also brackets the problem: a woman marrying in April 1880 and registering nine children to 1900 cannot have died in 1883.
Queensland birth registrations to Carl/Karl Christian Julius Jocumsen and Hansine/Hansiene Sorensen: Anna Johanna 12/02/1881 (1881/C/4093), Christine Frederika 19/03/1883 (1883/C/7339), Amanda Sophia 16/08/1884 (1884/C/5675), Soren Christian 01/08/1886 (1886/C/6433), Waldemar Wilhelm 13/05/1889 (1889/C/7698), Fransine Wilhelmine 17/06/1891 (1891/C/11135), Beatrice May 29/05/1893 (1893/C/8024), Vivian Robert 13/04/1894 (1894/C/7872), Erick Norman 27/03/1900 (1900/C/8896).
Every child in this family is registered in Queensland with Hansine Sorensen named as the mother, so none of the seven posthumous-birth errors is a wrong child link: the mother's 1883 death date was the wrong field.
Frederick William Turner | Marriage | 17/10/1928 | 1928/C/3173 | Spouse: Mary Gunn
Row from the Queensland historical marriage index; retrieved 2026-08-30. The index gives the event date as 17/10/1928 where the tree's imported MARR event says 18 OCT 1928 - one day apart. I have NOT changed the tree's date on a one-day difference; both are recorded here so a moderator can decide. It also gives the groom's full name as Frederick William, where the tree has Fred, hence the aka name row.
Family name: Kuhz; Given name(s): August Friedrich Wilhelm; Event: Marriage; Date of event: 12/07/1909; Registration reference: 1909/C/1437; Spouse: Wilhelmine Hohnke
The groom's full name 'August Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhz' matches the FATHER (person 12905) rather than the son (31755, who used the shorter 'August Frederick' and had already died in 1905).
August Friedrich Wilhelm Behm | Death | 19/10/1895 | August Behm | - Behm | 1895/C/3028
Establishes the father slot for this family: August Behm, previously empty. This is August Friedrich Wilhelm Behm's own death registration, naming his parents. See the citation on #63396 for the corroborating Queensland birth registrations of children of August Behm x Bertha Strassburg, matching this family's wife #63397.
Name: Arthur Ernest Godfrey | Event: Marriage | Date: 08/09/1917 | Reference: 1917/C/2186 | Spouse: Myrtle Wruck
QLD BDM historical index, marriage search row. Confirms this is the parents' own marriage (family 19631), independently of the duplicate family 19632 being removed.
Ernest Frederick otherwise known as William Wieland Marriage 22/04/1887 Louisa Frederike Kachel 1887/C/1397
QLD BDM historical marriage index, columns Name / Event / Date / Spouse / Reference. The only row returned for Wieland x Kachel, searched from both sides. Matches this family's recorded start date of 22 APR 1887.
"Ernest Frederick otherwise known as William Wieland - Marriage 22/04/1887 - Louisa Frederike Kachel - 1887/C/1397"; birth registrations 1888/C/8194 and 1897/C/8768 name the father "William Wieland" and 1900/C/5104 names him "Ernest Frederick William Wieland", mother Louisa Kachel throughout.
Establishes that one man, recorded as both "William" and "Ernest Frederick William" Wieland, married Louisa Frederike Kachel on 22 APR 1887 and fathered her children. That is #23206 Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Wieland, whose German name translates exactly and who carries the aka "William Wieland". The previous occupant of this slot, #64052 Ernest Frederick Wieland, was born 1864 to Frederick Ernest Wieland and Catherina Diederich and is a different man.
Lilly May Brierley Birth 26/12/1898 Henrietta Brierley 1899/B/63423 | Edward Frank Brierley Birth 26/12/1898 Henrietta Brierley 1899/B/63422
QLD BDM historical birth index, columns Name / Event / Date / Father / Mother / Reference; rows separated by a pipe. The Father column is BLANK in both rows. Both children of this family are present, sharing one birth date and consecutive registration numbers - they are twins.
QLD BDM historical birth index, columns Name / Event / Date / Father / Mother / Reference; rows separated by a pipe. The Father column is BLANK in every row. All five children of this family are present and all name mother Harriet Mottershead only.
Algernon Edward Leeding | Marriage | 16/11/1931 | Dorothy Geraldine Fear | 1931/B/11843
QLD BDM marriage index row; confirms the marriage date already on file for family 20631 exactly. Together with Irene Mavis's registration above, this settles review item 5626: Irene Mavis (daughter of Edward Ernest Leeding, family 20658) and Irene Phyllis #66288 (daughter of Edward Ernest's first cousin Algernon Edward Leeding, family 20631) are different people given the same first name — a reused family name across cousins, not a duplicate. Irene Phyllis's own QLD BDM birth registration (b.1921) was searched for but not found in the index; her parentage (Algernon Edward Leeding x Dorothy Geraldine Fear, distinct from Edward Ernest x Emily Florence Pearce) is the discriminator and is not in doubt.
John Deloughery Birth 25/05/1889 Ann Deloughery 1889/C/10702
Documents the shape of this family: one child, no father recorded across BOTH his birth registration (quoted here) and his death registration nine days later, 1889/C/4479 ("John Deloughery Death 09/06/1889 - Ann Deloughery days 1889/C/4479", father "-") — see the citation on his DEAT event.
Index columns (name; event; date; registration reference; father's given name; mother's given name + maiden surname), Queensland historical death index, via genealogy-cli qld-bdm (surname Sbresni, type deaths). Confirms Friedrich's parents as Michael [Sbresni] and Catherine Struppek, matching family 20705 (gedcom, previously uncited).
Gottfried Sbresni; Death; 19/05/1980; Father: Friedrich Sbresni; Mother: Auguste Retschm
Corroborates family 20705 (Friedrich x Auguste) as Gottfried's parents, independent of Friedrich's own 1949 death registration cited in proposal #1451.
Heinrich Friedrich Sbresni; Death; 09/06/1984; Father: Friedrich Sbresni; Mother: Augusta Retchus
Corroborates family 20705 (Friedrich x Auguste) as Heinrich Friedric's parents, independent of Friedrich's own 1949 death registration cited in proposal #1451.
name: Samuel Hill Plant | event: Marriage | date: 14/07/1915 | reference: 1915/C/2988 | spouse: Sarah Louisa Bidgood
Confirms the marriage genuinely occurred on 14 Jul 1915 as already recorded — the marriage date itself was correct all along; the defect was the misattributed death, not the marriage date. Groom's full name on the register is 'Samuel Hill Plant'; 'Hill' is his own mother Laura Jane Hill's maiden surname, added below as an attested name variant. Re-verified live via QLD BDM 2026-09-17.
Supports the new single-parent family: Louisa Johanna Holznagel (23594, b. 12 APR 1892, unmarried until 1919) as mother of Grace Gladys. By omitting any father it also contradicts the former attachment of Grace to family 3716, whose husband died in 1910.
August Carl Regeling married Ellen Minnie Beitz, 26/07/1923, Queensland, 1923/B/32722
August Carl Regeling #22322 had no spouse in the tree. His Courier-Mail funeral notice of 22 NOV 1947 addressed 'Mrs. B. M. Regeling (nee Beltz) & family, of Loganlea' - OCR for E. M. Regeling nee Beitz. This is the marriage. Queensland marriage rows carry no parents, so identity rests on the surname pair, the date and the two death registrations cited beside this one.
John Glasby, Death, 18/12/1875, father William Glasby, mother Elizabeth Inghram, 1875/C/2923
John Glasby #16003 had no parents recorded. His Queensland death registration names them. The mother's surname is corroborated inside the family: his son is Robert INGRAM Glasby #16099.
Jessie Mary Archer | Marriage | 12/04/1940 | Eric Hawksley Boden | 1940/C/2533
Queensland marriage index row. Marriage rows do not name parents; the link to this family rests on the Morning Bulletin notice of the following day, which names the bride as the second daughter of Mr and Mrs E. W. Archer.
Ellen Butler | Death | 14/02/1926 | Abraham Turner | Martha Longley | 1926/C/846
Same index row, cited here as the evidence for the couple: it names Abraham Turner and Martha Longley together as the parents of the deceased. No marriage record has been found for them.
Emily Daly | Death | 21/09/1916 | James Shaw | Annie Wheelen | 1916/C/4310
The same death registration is the only evidence for this parent couple: it names James Shaw and Annie Wheelen as the deceased's father and mother. Columns: Name | Event | Date | Father | Mother | Reference.
John Dennis Ware | Death | 26/08/1897 | Mark Ware | Jane Dennis | 1897/C/2870
Queensland historical death index, columns Name | Event | Date | Father | Mother | Reference. This registration is the sole evidence for the existence of this couple; no dates or places are recorded for either of them.
Emma Carrick | Birth | 02/01/1894 | reference 1894/C/5191 | father John Carrick | mother Mary Jane Hyde
Queensland historical BDM index birth row for the couple's daughter Emma Carrick (b. 2 Jan 1894, matching the tree's existing date), naming both parents. Columns as returned by the index search: name | event | date | reference | father | mother. Proves the union though not a marriage itself; no QLD marriage registration for John Carrick x Mary Jane Hyde was found (searched under both surnames, all plausible years) — union type left as married per the existing record.
Carrick family reconstructed from Queensland BDM: William Carrick x Anne Mitten -> John Carrick (1844-1919) and Thomas Carrick (d.1946). John Carrick x Mary Jane Hyde (whose own parents were Thomas Hyde and Sarah, and who died 1947) -> Emma (1894-1906), William James (d.1944), and Thomas (d.1947). Thomas x Lilian Mary Nicholls (whose own parents were Edward Nicholls and Elizabeth Mason) -> John (b.1912), Ivy (1913-1936), Thomas (1910-1991), Doris May (b.1918), James Matthew (1920-1972).
This Thomas Carrick (m. Lilian Mary Nicholls, later recorded as Armstrong on some records) is inferred to be the same Thomas who is son of John Carrick and Mary Jane Hyde (his own 1947 death record gives those same parents) - not stated outright in any single record, but the only Thomas Carrick in this dataset whose death year (1947) and generation fit. His own eldest son, also named Thomas (b.1910, d.1991), is a fifth generation from William Carrick Sr.
Thomas Hudson Carrick | Death | 13/02/1930 | reference 1930/C/139 | father Robert | mother Ellen Hudson
QLD BDM death index row for the couple's son Thomas Hudson Carrick (matches the tree's existing death date exactly), naming both parents. His birth/marriage was not found registered in Queensland (he married in 1886, already an adult) — this death row is the strongest union evidence available. No QLD marriage registration for Robert Carrick x Ellen Hudson was found; union type left as married per the existing record.
Robert Carrick x Ellen Hudson -> Thomas Hudson Carrick (d.1930). Thomas Hudson Carrick x Henrietta Allison (m.24 Aug 1886) -> Henrietta Edith (b.1888), Margaret Ann (b.1886), Cordelia May (1891-1970).
Thomas's middle name 'Hudson' matches his mother's maiden name (Ellen Hudson) - a naming convention seen repeatedly across this whole project.
Anne Isabella Carrick Carrick | Birth | 12/06/1864 | reference 1864/C/25 | father Robert Carrick | mother Anne Teesdale
QLD BDM birth row for the couple's daughter Anne Isabella (matches the tree's existing date), naming both parents. The doubled surname and 'Teesdale' spelling are exactly as returned by the index search; a matching name variant is added on Ann Teasdale's record. Proves the union; no QLD marriage registration for Robert Carrick x Ann Teasdale was found — union type left as married per the existing record.
Douglas Dunn Carrick x Miriam Annis Mosley -> Ethel Miriam (d.1962), William Philip (d.1934, m. Laura Coventry Burkitt Pocock 1918 -> Philip 1923), Albert Aitken (d.1959, m. Pearl de Sails Merritt 1908 -> Lindsay, an infant death, and Allan Merritt, who m. Jean Barbara McLaran 1934 -> Albert Ian, d.1976). Douglas Dunn Carrick also married Victoria Churchwood in 1928 - a second marriage or a namesake son not otherwise documented in this dataset.
William James Carrick x Mary Saunders Rankine (m.19 Jun 1912) -> Mary (b.1913), Rachel Ann (b.1913, m. Noel Alexander 1940), James (1917-1990, m. Ann Victoria Santowski 1942), Violet (b.1915), Lillie (b.1920, m. Douglas Vickery Hyde 1942), Mabel Isabel (b.1924, m. Roy Thomas Girle 1947).
Mary Saunders Rankine's own death record gives her father as John Rankine; her mother's name in the source data is garbled (repeats her own name), so no mother is recorded here rather than guessing.
Death: Mary Carrick, 29 Dec 1936, mother Eliza Trotter, father William Wilson.
Same Queensland BDM death-index citation already on their daughter Mary Carrick (citation #50622), extended here to the family: the death index names both William Wilson and Eliza Trotter as her parents, corroborating this parental union. It does not establish a MARRIAGE (a death index carries no marital-status field) - the union_no_marriage_evidence item for this family remains open pending an actual marriage record; a Chrome BDM lookup has been requested separately.