Indexes - Coloured Labour and Asiatic Aliens in Queensland 1913
This index contains the names of non-British subjects who lived in various Queensland Police Districts including Townsville, Normanton, Roma, Rockhampton and Toowoomba in 1913. The original documentation refers to coloured labour and Asiatic aliens. Some of the included persons are described as: South Sea Islanders, Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Greek and Indian.
Sources Indexed
Chief Secretary's Department: Correspondence, 1913
[QSA ITEM ID 862496]. The bundle includes correspondence related to the collection of information, as well as the lists of non-British residents in various Queensland Police Districts in 1913. Details given in the lists include name of the individual, birthplace, residence, age of the individual, occupation, date of arrival in Queensland, whether the individual is
naturalised and some additional information related to the individual's employment.
The bundle of correspondence also includes other documents related to the activities of the Chief Secretary's Department during 1913.
The Index
The details were collated by various officials in the Police districts so that the department 'should possess trustworthy information regarding the coloured residents of Queensland'.
The initial indexing of the original lists was compiled by Paul Mackett and Jon Kehrer. The index should not be viewed as a complete list of all non-British subjects living in the region as some individuals may have been missed when the original lists were compiled.
The index includes the name of the individual, birthplace, age, residence, date of arrival in Queensland and whether the individual has been naturalised by 1913 based on the information included in the original documents. The index also usually includes the Police Subdistrict within the Police District where the individual was counted.
The correspondence lists a number of individuals by nationality, location and occupation without additional personal details. This list is included below:
| Nambour |
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| Nerang |
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| Coomera |
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| Hemmant |
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| Pinkenba |
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| Atherton |
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| Mareeba |
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| Nelson |
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| Mt Garnett |
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| Biggenden |
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| Gin Gin |
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| Gayndah |
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| Mt Perry |
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| Pialba |
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| Tinana |
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The image below (click for larger image) is an example showing page 9 from the typed list of individuals counted in the Ayr Police Subdistrict, Townsville Police District in Queensland.
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When using the index, please check for all possible variations of the individual's name. In a number of instances, it is not clear which name is the family name. This particularly occurs with names of Chinese, Indian and Japanese origin.
- Where there is no clear family name, the full name is entered as the family name eg: Etero Kimino or Wong Ying You.
- Where there is an Anglicised name (eg: Johnnie or George), it has been entered as the first name and the other names entered as surname in its original order eg: Chin Hoy, Charlie.
- Where there is no clear family name and one or more Anglicised names (eg: Charlie Raymond), the name is entered as the first name in its original order and is alphabetised at the beginning of the index.
Errors from the original document have been corrected where the correct spelling/entry is obvious eg: 'housewhife' becomes 'housewife' and '18933' becomes '1893'.
Some original errors have been transcribed and followed by [sic] eg: 1998 [sic].
How to Order Individual Entries
Search the Index
| (no surname) - Ah Way |  52 KB |
Ah Wee - Duro | 56 KB |
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| EDM Jong - Jutero Fukai | 57 KB |
Ka Fook - Madras | 51 KB |
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| Mage - Rabeo | 53 KB |
Rabin - Taylor | 45 KB |
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| Teacker - Zimmie | 57 KB |
