State Library of Queensland - Police Gazette Inquests 1875-1885

Created 12/11/2025

Updated 12/11/2025

A historical index of the Queensland Police Gazette Inquests records from 1875-1885. Inquests were conducted by the coroner to gather information about the cause and circumstances of a death. Reports relating to deaths were compiled by police officers and forwarded to the coroner, who decided whether an inquest was necessary. This dataset was created from an index of those reports of deaths about which an inquest was held, corrected and enhanced in 2021. The reports include name or surname and given names of the deceased, location of death, a note of other details (i.e. cause of death, date of death, age at death, occupation, etc.), and the date and page of gazette in which it was reported, and the citation of any other published resources consulted. Search the index at the State Library of Queensland in the Family History Indexes on One Search, the library catalogue: http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/

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Title State Library of Queensland - Police Gazette Inquests 1875-1885
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/f1a5089b-01f9-40a8-8aee-ce62a4721bde
Remote Last Updated 14/06/2024
Contact Point
State Library of Queensland
opendata@slq.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 03/04/2020
Geospatial Coverage Queensland
Data Portal Queensland Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Queensland Government "State Library of Queensland - Police Gazette Inquests 1875-1885". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/slq-police-gazette-inquests-1875-1885