Category: People
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Zachariah Daniel Sparks Skyring Junior
Zachariah Daniel Sparks Skyring Junior, (13th July 1859- 1957) was born at Albert Street in Brisbane…
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Annie Skyring
Annie Skyring (nee Murphy) was the fifth daughter of Mary (nee Cullen) and Daniel Murphy of…
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Amelia Louisa Skyring (nee Sparks)
Amelia Louisa Skyring (nee Sparks) was born in Sydney in 1841. When she was 17 years…
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Policewomen Zara Dare & Eileen O’Donnell
This blog has been used by kind permission from the Queensland Police Museum FROM the VAULT…
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Female Bobbies, 85 Years
This blog has been used by kind permission from the Queensland Police Museum FROM the VAULT…
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Emanuel William Gâté son of Count Guiam Gâté of Fougere, France.
Emanuel William Gâté son of Count Guiam Gâté of Fougere, France. At the age of…
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Zachariah Skyring Senior (1828- 1894)
Zachariah Skyring Senior was born in England on the 6th January 1828 he was the eldest…
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Daniel Murphy brother of Catherine Nash (nee Murphy)
Daniel Murphy brother of Catherine Nash (nee Murphy) wife of James Nash. As reported in the…
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Gympie’s Famous Boxing Champion
Archie Bradley was a famous Boxing Champion back in the 1920’s. He was known as the…
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Tree felling contest at the Brisbane Exhibition in 1928
Max Krough dropped in this wonderful story about his father winning the first ever tree felling…
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Woolooga Lane
My Grandmother’s name was Elizabeth Ann Thefs and she married Carl Ludwig Taebke. Carl Taebke migrated…
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Gympie’s First Aboriginal Nurse
My cousin, Lorraine Smith, known to the family as “Billy Boy” was the first Aboriginal Nurse…
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Swaggies
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And…
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Biddle Engraved Horns
Peter Biddle immigrated to Australia in 1865 landing in Maryborough. In 1870 the family came to…
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About Mr G. Thomas
Mr. George Thomas, one of Gympie s best-known citizens, is approaching his 75th year (he was…
