Director of Native Affairs Office
      Health and Home Affairs Batch Files 1939 - 1966
      Reference A/58881
      (Particular Item uncertain but all have Access Category 30 years)
      Queensland State Archives

      Correspondence dated 1939 - 1948 about Fantome Island inmates
      marrying.

      Application to marry dated 1942 
      
      Lui George, born March 1911, father Islander, mother Islander and
      Emmie Hayden, born 22. 8.1915, father white, mother H/C
      Emmie has a child Tommy Hayden, born September 1932
      Emmie and Lui have a child Getano George, born 31. 1.1942
      Approval to marry granted.

      Application to marry dated 1943 
      
      Tom Lui and Dorothy Gyemore
      Married 19. 2.1944 Fantome Island

      Application to marry dated 1943
      
      Percy Banning and May (Pixie) Luco
      Married 30. 5.1944 at Hughenden

      Letter dated 31. 3.1944 mentions
      
      Ivy Gala
      Jerry Dolo
      Queenie Hart
      Cedric Tiger
      Janie Salmon, single, 24 yrs, pregnant
      Norma of Lockhart River

      Letter dated 20. 7.1944 mentions
      
      Ivy Gala
      Jerry Dolo
      John Burton, at Palm Island
      Jimmy Walsh, at Cherbourg

      Letter dated 8. 7.1946 states the following couples are to be married on 17. 9.1946
      
      Henry Brown, 31 yrs, H/C, admitted 1939 and Vera Lango, 30 yrs,
      F/B, admitted 1935. They have been together since 1939, first
      at Peel Island then at Fantome Island. They have 3 children, all
      born at Fantome Island, the youngest being 4 weeks.
     
      Toby Hunter, 33 yrs, H/C, admitted 1939 and Gracie Freeman, 30 yrs,
      F/B, admitted 1942. They have one child born at Fantome Island.
      
      Approval for marriage 1947
      
      Dan Coleman, 30 yrs old, and Lorraine Hutton 23 yrs old

      Approval for marriage 1948
      
      Sandy Boyd, 16 years old, and Valerie Mitchell, 16 yrs old, pregnant

      Correspondence dated 1948 
      
      About marriage of Percy Freeman, 19 yrs, and Esther Thompson, 17 yrs at Fantome Island. Approval given.
      About marriage of Joe Lee and Daisy Oliffe at Fantome Island. Approval given.

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