This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Aboriginal names and a Quetta shipwreck remembered
A fragmented reminiscence profiles aboriginal figures like Douglas Grant a Scotsman botanist and war veteran. landscape artist Albert Nematfire and Lieut Saunders. It recalls the 1890 Quetta disaster off Torres Strait where survivors Emily Lacey Miss Nicklin and a baby named Quetta endured hours adrift before rescue and later life events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Grant
Sydney Bulletin
Donglan
Australia
Arma
Lithgow
Abo
Albert Nematfire
Central Australia
Abbis Fe
Melbourne
Saunders
Quetta
London
Torres Strait
Emily Lacey
New Guinea
Allee Nicklin
Queensland