Queensland Business and Occupations

Online Records

 * Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters, index.
 * Queensland Railway Employees Index ($)
 * 1863-1959 - Companies 1863-1959, index.
 * 1874-1880 - Miners rights 1874-1880, index.
 * 1879 - Queensland Railway Dismissals 1879. Ipswich and Rockhampton Railway Workshops Index ($)
 * 1882-1919 - Seamen 1882 to 1919, index.

Government Employment

 * 1865-1867 - Civil servants 1865-1867, index.
 * 1872-1915 - Imperial pensions 1872-1915, index.
 * 1898-1912 - Imperial pensions 1898-1912, index.
 * 1908-1919 - Index to Pensions 1908-1909, index.

Pastoral (Ranching) Directories

 * Australian Pastoral Directories, ($), index.
 * Australian Pastoral Directory, ($), index.
 * 1893-1899 - Australasian federal pastoral directory List of stockowners [ranchers] in the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania.
 * 1954 - List of stockowners in the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Tasmania

Licenses

 * Queensland Licences Index ($)
 * 1891-1904 - Stage licences 1891-1904, index.
 * 1900-1903 - Queensland, Australia, Licensed Victuallers Index, 1900-1903 index - at Ancestry ($)

Police Gazettes (including license news)

 * 1881-1945 - Queensland, Australia, Police Gazette Index, 1881-1945 index and images - at Ancestry ($)
 * 1903-1910 - Queensland, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1903-1910 - at Ancestry ($)

Business Occupations

 * 1857-1922 - Web: Queensland, Australia, Occupational Indexes, 1857-1922 index - at Ancestry ($)
 * 1882-1945 - Queensland, Australia, Mining Accident Index, 1882-1945 index - at Ancestry ($

Archive Resources Kit

 * Community Access Points A list of libraries and archives which hold the microform copies of the Archive Resources Kit records.
 * The Archive Resources Kit includes the following Professions and occupations records:
 * Returns of the Colony (Blue Books), 1822-57
 * Record of Appointments to Government Offices, 1814-25
 * Roll of barristers, solicitors, attorneys, etc, 1824-76
 * Medical Board Minutes of proceedings and register, 1838-1901
 * Certificates of publicans' licences, 1830-61

"The ARK is held by 40 community access points across NSW. The majority of access points are libraries. The ARK consists of microfilm copies of our most popular and heavily used colonial records. Included are records relating to convict arrivals, assisted immigrants, births, deaths and marriages, publicans' licences, electoral rolls, naturalisation, returns of the colony ('Blue Books'), land grants, and the wide range of functions of the Colonial Secretary (1788-1825). You may find that the ARK (or parts of it) are held at a library near you."

Content of Business Records
Australia businesses and commercial companies seldom contain dates or places of birth, marriage, or death but they can have valuable genealogical information.
 * For example, lawyers at the time kept detailed records for their clients. Included in these records are:
 * probate material
 * adoption records
 * insurance papers
 * lawsuits, and other sources that may help you trace your ancestors.
 * Some bank ledgers in Australia give:
 * the name
 * occupation
 * residence
 * age
 * place of birth (by county and country)
 * year of immigration and name of ship
 * a physical description of depositors.
 * Pub owners, butchers, lumberjacks, auctioneers, or other professionals had to be licensed. Licenses were granted by the courts, and notices were then published in the Government Gazette. For further information about gazettes, read the Court Records article.