Rosanna WEBB

From time to time I list interesting items discovered at Queensland State Archives. Today's find was a Colonial Secretary's Office in-letter (no.4413 in 1878) referring to Rosanna WEBB, a destitute child at Maryborough, who was accepted to an orphanage but wanted money for her passage.

If you need my help to obtain a copy of this document from Queensland State Archives (the cost would be about $15), email me at the address shown in the sidebar here.

If you are not familiar with in-letters, see:

• I is for In-Letters and Invalid Pensions (opens in a new window)


• The 'False Identity' story (opens in a new window)


• more examples of information in Col.Sec. in-letters.

Matilda JESSUP, 1870s

Queensland State Archives hold documents (dated 1878) about Matilda JESSUP. They give details of her arrival on the Scottish Hero with her husband; his death from typhoid (which she also had); her mother-in-law's death from burns suffered when she fell in a fire; and a passage back to England for Matilda and five children on the Windsor Castle.

If you need my help to obtain a copy of this document from Queensland State Archives (the cost would be about $15), email me at the address shown in the sidebar here.

If you are not familiar with in-letters, see:

• I is for In-Letters and Invalid Pensions (opens in a new window)


• more examples of information in Col.Sec. in-letters (scroll down on that page).

'Friedeburg' 1878: passengers / crew

These passengers and crew are mentioned in papers of quarantine of the ship Friedeburg (arrived 1878) in Queensland Colonial Secretary's Office correspondence:

Friedrick ANDERSEN (ship's crew)
Auguste CARLSON (died)
Ottilie EBEL
child FROST (born prematurely, died)
Elinore FROST (died)
Jurgen HAHN
Metha HANSEN
Heinrich HEININGER
Oscar HENNEBERG (ship's crew)
Fritz HINSPETER
George HOLST (ship's crew)
Wilhelmina KIRST
Carl LARSSON (ship's crew)
Amalie LINDENBERG
Caroline MADSEN
Fred MADSEN
Elizabeth NIEBELING
Martin NIELSEN (ship's crew)
Ellen NUGENT (died; from 'Scottish Admiral')
Catharina OLIVA
Mrs PETERSEN (re a birth)
Trina PETERSEN (died)
Lauritz PETERSON
Dorothea REICHE
Christian SCHADLICH
Mrs UTZ
Wilhelm WEINKEN
Amalie WEISS
Hulda WEISS
Wilhelm WEISS.

If you need my help to obtain a copy of this document from Queensland State Archives (the cost would be about $20), email me at the address shown in the sidebar here.

If you are not familiar with in-letters, see:

• I is for In-Letters and Invalid Pensions (opens in a new window)


• more examples of information in Col.Sec. in-letters (scroll down on that page).