Records Currently Available

Membership Cooktown Archive & Research Records Currently Available Images from our Collection  Shop Home     The Cooktown Historical Society has been working towards having all information placed on a searchable database, to enable searches to happen very easily and very fast.  To date ( 2011 ) we have over 50,000 names on our various data bases.  These people were all early residents or  visitors to Cooktown from 1873. The following databases have been digitized and are currently in use by  our society.   Index to Cooktown and Palmer   Births [1874—1905]   Deaths [1874—1945]   Marriages [1874—1907]   Cooktown Cemetery Register [1874—2000]   Maytown Cemetery—photos and plan of  cemetery, plus details of burials   Coen Cemetery—photos and details of burials   Register of Lone Graves in the Cooktown area   [ still growing]   Residents and Property Owners [ 1878 and various years from 1890 until 1948] -     Shows  property  description as well as owners of properties.   Cooktown Businesses and Locations [ 1874 and 1886] - taken from                                advertisements in newspapera   and Almanacs.   Cooktown State School Admission Registers [Incomplete due to missing years]   Boys School 1885—1921   Girls School 1919—1921   State School 1921—1941   Cooktown Volunteers in WW1 shows extensive research with military and civilian details.   Electoral Rolls of 1877, 1883, 1899, 1914 & 1920   Publicans of Cooktown and the surrounding areas up to 1900   Post Office Directory [1889—1947]   Daintree Divisional Board Rates  [ 1880—1887]   Hann Divisional Board Rates [ 1880—1932 ]   Cooktown Municipal Council Rates [ 1893—1932]   Cook Shire Rates [ 1919—1952]   Photographic, Document and Map Collection—the documents have been         indexed so that any reference to individuals can be easily located.  We are currently working on cataloging our collection of over 6 000 photographs.—    As well as indexing our collection of Local News Papers from 1986 to current day. We also have access to the James Cook Museum Collection of Photographs and Documents, and also the Rossville Historical Society Collection.       We are a Deductible Gift Recipient Society. That is, if you  wish to make a monetary  donation to the society we can give you a receipt so you can claim it back on your  tax. Please contact Society for details for Direct Debit.   Cooktown History Centre       121 Charlotte St,                                          PO Box 595                                           Cooktown                                    Ph: (07) 4069 6640 historical_society@cooktowns.com                    Our friendly    volunteers are there to assist you with searches regarding our local history and local family connections.