The Players - Gatton and Oxley Murders

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The Players
William Murphy
Age
30
Birth:
5/03/1868
Classification: Relative
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 8/09/53
Description
If anyone can help with missing pictures or information please e-mai info@gattonmurders.com
Players History:
Died age 85
Family Portrait
Most of the Murphy family. The date is estimated as 1895 or 6 just before Polly went into service in…
MURPHY. - The Relatives and friends of the late William Murphy at "Win Will" Grantham are respectfully
invited to attend his funeral...Roman Catholic Church Gatton this day, Wednesday, after service commencing at 11
am for the Gatton Cemetery.
Patrick Joseph Murphy
Age
24
Birth: 28/03/1874
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 1/03/47
Description
Players History:
Michael and Patrick had served in the Gatton Mounted Infantry for some time.
Labourer at Gatton College.
Died age 63
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Dan Murphy Sen.
Age
56
Birth:
Description
1/01/1843
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 31/05/1927
Father William Murphy Mother Honora Cleahy?
I can’t find anywhere that
Father Walsh officiated. The
body didn’t even go to the
church.
Players History:
Born in the County of Bantry Cork Ireland.
Mr. Murphy, who is 56 years of age, came to the colony in 21 Mar 1865
(aged 22), in the 777 ton ship Wansfell (Departed London 13 Dec 1864), and shortly after landing he engaged with
Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts to assist in the construction of the railway line from Ipswich to Toowoomba.
For some considerable time he worked for the firm in the neighbourhood of Ipswich.
About two years later on the 10th of April 1866 he was married by the late Rev. Father Brun, of Ipswich, to Mrs.
Murphy (nee Holland) having come out to the colony in the ship Charlie Palmer (1865).
Shortly after their marriage they removed to a farm on Sandy Creak (now called Ma Ma Creek), about a mile nearer
to Gatton than the land, which they now tenant.
They were there engaged in cotton-growing for some years.
It was at this place that the deceased, Michael and Norah, were born, but Ellen-or Nellie, as she was familiarly
called-was born at Spring Creek, a few miles to the north of Gatton, whither Mr. and Mrs. Murphy had removed,
and where they lived up till about nine and a-half years back, when they took the late Mr. Norman Rule's farm, and
have been living on it ever since.
Whilst at Spring Creek Mr. Murphy engaged in grazing pursuits, and took contracts for road work and fencing.
For some years after removing to Blackfellows' Creek, he also tendered for road and other work; but of late years
he has left that class of labour to his sons and has confined his efforts to farming.
Died 31 May 1927 age 85.
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Mary (Polly) M'Neill
Age
32
Birth:
Description
1/01/1866
Death:
Involved In:
Gatton
1/07/1904
"Polly" is a nickname for Mary, which was derived from another nickname for Mary, Molly. It is
sometimes used as a name in its own right.
1886
Players History:
She may have been illigitimate.
Left home about 1890.
Married M'Neill 17 Jun 1896
She moved to Gatton to stay at the Murphy's in late September 1898.
Her name was Mary M’Neill, wife of William M’Neill. Married in 1896
At the time of the tragedy she had two children: Beatrice born in (July) 1896 and Daniel Joseph born on the 27th
May 1898.
Suffered from paralysis after the birth of Daniel.
Spent 3 months in Toowoomba hospital from 17th June, 1898 to late September.
When she left the hospital she was not cured, and was still in bad health.
Died age 38
Taken from The North Queensland Register (Townsville) 18th July 1904
We ("Darling Downs Gazette" of 2nd, inst.) regret to record the demise of Mrs. W. McNeil, who expired at her
residence, Westbrook, on Thursday night, at the age of 38 years. Mrs. McNeil had been an invalid for more than six
years, suffering from paralysis. A few days ago she received a chill, which brought on complications that resulted
in death. She leaves a husband and two children to mourn their severe bereavement, and with them sympathy is
expressed. Mrs. McNeil was a sister of the ill-fated brother and two sisters who met such a tragic end at Gatton
nearly six years ago.
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Catherine (Katie) Murphy
Age
13
Birth:
5/12/1885
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 21/02/74
Description
Players History:
The last direct link with the Murphy family was broken with the death in Brisbane of Catherine (Katie) Murphy on
21 February 1974.
Age 89
Aged 24
GATTON, July 22. 1910
The dressed weight of the bullock used in the weight estimating competition at the Gatton Show was 7241b. No
persons estimated the exact weight, but the nearest were:-W. Hare (Gatton), C. Heenan (Forest Hill), W.
Crawford (Laidley). T. Fitzpatrick (Gatton), each 7231b.; Miss K. Murphy, (Grantham), A. D. Smith (Gatton), A.
H. Smith (Gatton), O.E. Gunn (Laidley), J. Ward (Gatton), each 725lb.
Classification: Victim
Theresa Ellen Murphy / Nellie/Helen
Age
18
Birth: 31/05/1880
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 27/12/1898
Description
Players History:
Murder Victim
Occupation- Home Assistant
Third daughter of Mary and Daniel Murphy.
She entered school on December 2, 1889, and was then put in the second class.
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Honora Josephine Murphy
Age
27
Birth: 19/12/1871
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 27/12/1898
Description
Players History:
Murder Victim.
Occupation- Home Assistant
Second daughter of Mary and Daniel Murphy.
Born about 29th June 1871 or as per Bennett's book 29th December 1871.
The school records show that Honora Josephine Murphy first attended February 21, 1876, when she was only four
years of age; whilst Michael Murphy's name first appears in the school register on June 29, 1874, when he was five
years old.
John James Murphy
Age
15
Birth:
3/05/1883
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 12/11/1928
Description
Players History:
Died age 45
MURPHY-JOYCE.-At St, Joseph's
R.C. Church, Mount Morgan, by the Rev. Father Englehart, John Joseph, youngest son of Mr. Daniel Murphy of
Gatton, Queensland, to Margaret youngest daughter of Mr. James Joyce, of County Carlow, Ireland.
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Daniel Murphy (Jnr)
Age
21
Birth: 12/03/1876
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 14/11/59
Description
Spouse:-Violet Mary Fiel ding
Birth 27 Oct 1881 in
Queensland,
Death 15 Mar 1932 in Gatton,
Queensland
Mur phy family circa 1912
Keith Daniel Eileen Vilolet
Players History:
Police Constable.
Constable Dan Murphy, after detailing what action he took when he received a telegram acquainting him of the
murder, said he went from Brisbane to Gatton by the 5 o'clock train on the day after the murder, and in the evening
he saw Sub-Inspector Galbraith and Sergeant Arrell there.
Died age 83 Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Michael Murphy
Age
29
Birth: 23/01/1870
Description
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 27/12/1898
About 5ft. 10in. in height, and weighed between 11st, and 12st
Players History:
Murder Victim.
Farmer.
He was a big, powerful man, 5ft 10in in height, a thorough bushman, and an excellent horseman.
Second son of Mary and Daniel Murphy.
Born about 21st January 1869.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ricardo on behalf of the Mounted Infantry, in which arm of the Defence Force Michael
Murphy was a worthy non-commissioned officer.
Michael Murphy's name first appears in the school register on June 29, 1874, when he was five years old.
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Mary Ellen Murphy (nee Holland)
Age
55
Birth:
Description
1/01/1841
Death:
Involved In:
Gatton
2/09/1922
Father Michael Holland Mother Mary Sullivan
I can’t find anywhere that
Father W alsh officiated.
The body didn’t even go to
the church.
Players History:
Born in the County of Bantry Cork Ireland.
On the 10th of April 1866 she was married to Daniel Murphy by the late Rev. Father Brun, of Ipswich, Mrs.
Murphy (nee Holland) having come out to the colony in the ship Charlie Palmer (1865). Arrived 15/01/1865
Shortly after their marriage they removed to a farm on Sandy Creek (now called Ma Ma Creek), about a mile nearer
to Gatton than the land, which they now tenant.
It is a remarkable coincidence that Mrs. Murphy went up to Gatton to take up her residence there exactly thirty
years ago on Monday last 27/12/1898.
Mary Murphy died on 2 September 1922, aged eighty years.
Daniel and Mary Murphy lie buried in Gatton cemetery not far from the monument, which marks the grave of their
beloved children, Michael, Norah and Ellen.
THE CHARLIE PALMER.
CHARLES SMITH, Commander
The barque Charlie Palmer, belonging to Mr. D. Wienholt, came to an anchor in Brisbane Roads on Sunday the
15th instant, at 11 p.m., having on board about 252 Government, immigrants, and a full cargo of general
merchandise.
She sailed from Plymouth, at which port her passangers embarked, on the 10th September, 1864.
During the passage to the line she was unfortunate in meeting with baffling winds, and did not reach the equator
until October 21, which was her forty-first day out.
As she neared the Cape of Good Hope it was found that the provisions were running short, and accordingly Captain
Smith put into Table Bay on November 25 to obtain fresh supplies.
On the 28th of the same month she again put to sea; and passing to the southward of Tasmania, made Moreton
Island on January 14, having had fine steady breezes, with the exception of a few days calm when off Cape Howe,
throughout this
portion of the passage.
On the morning of the 15th she was boarded by Pilot Sholl, and at 11 p m. on the same day she dropped anchor in
the Brisbane roadstead.
Yesterday she was visited by Dr. Purdie, the Health Officer, who having found all the passengers in a most
satisfactory condition as regards health, passed her.
The health of the passengers throughout the passage has been good, as only four deaths have taken place, one being
an adult, a female who died in childbirth.
There were, however, six births.
The greater number of the immigrants by this vessel will be conveyed direct from the ship to Ipswich by the
steamer Settler, which leaves town this morning for that purpose.
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William Joseph McNeill
Age
28
Birth: 23/04/1870
Description
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 12/09/50
A man of medium height, thickly set
Players History:
Butcher from Westbrook.
At the time he had two children: Beatrice born in 1896 and Daniel Joseph born in 1898.
William McNeil in his later years moved to Kingaroy where he died at the age of eighty years on 12 September
1950.
One day in 1916 he displayed the horsemanship for which he was renowned when he rescued a three year old girl
from a sulky drawn by a maddened horse as it bolted through the streets of Toowoomba.
McNeill was driving in the town when he saw the bolting horse with the child alone in the sulky.
He took in the situation at a glance, stood up in his own vehicle and, lashing his horse to a gallop, set out after and
overtook the bolting horse. Reaching over, he plucked the child to safety.
For this notable act of bravery William McNeill was, awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Humane Society on 8
February 1917.
It appears he went on to become a linesman. William McNeill, Margaret Street Toowoomba,
linesman Post and Telegraph Dept.
Melbourne Friday 6 July 1917
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Aloise Jeremiah "Jerry" Murphy
Age
20
Birth: 23/03/1878
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 18/08/52
Description
Players History:
Died age 74
Wife Beatrice Anne Mechan Died 2/7/1964 aged 71.
John Burke, alias Blake
Age
Birth:
Classification: Suspect
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
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John Lunney
Age
Birth:
Classification: Mentioned
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Frank Burns, or Byrnes
Age
35
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Is about 5ft. 6in. in height, of light build
Players History:
It is said that a man named Burke, who was formerly in the Ipswich district, was very like Burgess, but darker in
complexion.
Our Sydney telegram says that the man now detained at Grafton very nearly answers the description of Frank
Burns, or Byrnes, who was released from St. Helena at about the same time as Burgess. Burns, or Byrnes, is about
5ft. 6in. in height, of light build, about 35 years of age, and when discharged from prison wore a sandy moustache,
his beard being shaved. He served a sentence for a well-known jewellery robbery at Warwick, and, it is supposed,
was in the Toowoomba district after his release. A report on very good authority is to the effect that Burns, or
Byrnes, was last seen in Sydney, and had sailed for New Zealand.
It may be mentioned that John Lunney was well known in the Gatton district, and that the letters found near the
scene of the tragedy in Moran's paddock were from his wife and son, and had some reference to an expected
legacy. The police have ever since the discovery of the letters on the day following the tragedy, been working hard
to run their history back to the date when they left the Ipswich Hospital. If when Lunney died Burke was an inmate
of the Ipswich Hospital, that is probably why the police wished to find him. Whether the man arrested in New
South Wales is the identical Burke is a question of considerable interest just at present.
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Richard Burgess
Age
36
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
5ft. 6in. in height, and 12st. in weight
Players History:
Burgess prisoner number 4533, was been released from St Helena Island a prison in Moreton Bay on 30 November
1898, where he had served a term of imprisonment for a violent assault.
He was 36 years of age, a native of America of very powerful and athletic mould.
His prison description gave his height as 5ft 6¼ in, and his weight at 11st 10lbs.
Formerly a sailor, he had a long criminal record in the Australian colonies.
Some said he certainly seemed taller, and his weight must be fully 12st.
His beard was brownish, inclined to be sandy; his eyes grey, deep-set, and restless, his nose slightly out of shape,
his forehead fairly high, and the top of his head almost entirely bald.
Just above the forehead there is a light tuft of hair. He was at times a very nervous person, and the sardonic smile
so often spoken of is an involuntary twitching of the muscles at the left corner of the mouth.
His voice is low, and with a peculiar treble quality.
Burgess was charged with unlawfully stealing one riding-saddle, in Toowoomba, on 22nd December, the property
of one Patrick M'Namara.
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Louisa Theuerkauf
Age
20
Birth:
Classification: Witness
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Louisa Theurekauf, a domestic servant, now residing with her brother at Deep Gully, nine miles from Gatton, aged
about 20 years, said that at Christmas time she was in the employ of Mr. Clark, a butcher, who lives on the Tent
Hill road, near Gatton.
She knew Moran’s paddock. It was not quite half-a-mile from Clark’s to the sliprails. Clark’s paddock would
adjoin Moran’s except for a little lane between. One could see into part of Moran’s from Clark’s. She remembered
Boxing Day. She stayed at home at Clark’s that evening, and went to bed at 9 o’clock. She stayed awake, and heard
the clock strike 10. Mr. Clark said the clock was right. After hearing the clock strike she got up to put the cat out of
the kitchen, and opened the back door, facing Moran’s paddock. She heard a shot go off while at the door. It came
from the direction of Moran’s paddock. She also heard another shot. There was about a couple of minutes between
them. She heard two screams, which came from the same direction as the shots. The screams were two or three
minutes after the last shot. It was like a lady screaming. It was a still night. She thought all the screams were from
the same voice, there being no difference in tone. The first scream was louder than the second. In the first the only
word witness heard was “Father.”
That word was used both times. She did not hear it very plainly, but she was sure about it. She stood at the door
listening for about ten minutes. She did not hear anything more, and did not wake any one up to tell them what she
had heard, but went to bed. She heard nothing further that night.
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Dr. William Henry Von Lossberg
Age
Birth:
6/01/1837
Classification: Medical
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 21/05/1916
Description
Players History:
Death of Dr. W. H. von Lossherg.
VETERAN, DOCTOR OF QUEENSLAND. 53 YEARS' PRACTICE IN IPSWICH.
The death took place last evening of Dr. W. H. von Lossberg, one of the oldest residents of Ipswich, and a veteran
doctor in the State. De-ceased arrived in Queensland in the year 1863, as surgeon superintendent of the barque
Alster, and 14 days' subsequent to his arrival he commenced practice in Ipswich. He was born at Hesse-Cassel,
Germany, on the 6th of April, 1837, so that he was in his 80th year at the time of his death. He passed his degrees
in the University in Wurzburg, Bavaria, and practiced as an assistant in the town hospital for children, under Prof.
Gerhardt, who was one of the prominent advisers of the late Emperor Frederick. Deceased also practised under
Baron von Scanzoni, well-known in the Imperial families of Germany and Russia. The late doctor was a
particularly energetic man in his younger days in Ipswich, and it was said that he often rode on horseback as far as
Nanango. It is related that on one occasion he got lost in the bush after amputating an arm of a patient at Telemon
Station, in the Beaudesert district. and had to endure five days' wandering in the scrub couuntry without food or
water. He was eventually found by a hut-keeper at Maroon Station - Charlie Watkins-and taken to the station and
given some refreshment. and guided thence back to Ipswich. When the late Dr. K. I. O'Doherly was removed to
Brisbane 10 years ago, the late Dr. von Lossberg succeeded him as medical officer to the Rose of Queensland
Lodge, M.U.I.O.O.F, Deceased was among the first of the honorary surgeons connected with the; Ipwich General
Hospital. he was married in the year 1866, at Brisbane, to Miss Emilie Holmon, the celebrant being the late Rev.
Ernest Heiner, father of Mr. C. W. L,. Heiner, of this city. In 1887 Dr. Von Lossberg was appointed Govermunent
medical officer for Ipswich, a position which he occupied up till the time of his death. Dr. von l,ossberg was one of
the few now living who witnessed the turning of the first sod of Queensland railways-in February 1861, and he was
also present at the opening of the first section to Grandchester, Dr. von Lossberg has lost his wife ; but he leaves
three sons-Arthur, Victor. and Harry--and two daughters--Miss M. von Lossberg, and Mrs. J. W. M'Gill. wife of
the Town Clerk of Ithaca. The doctor always took a keen interest in the game of cricket, at which his sons are
prominent players. The funeral takes place at 10 a.m., to-day.
Medical practioner and Colonial Officer for the district of Ipswich.
Thursday 30 November 1899
Mrs. Emile VON LOSSBERG.-On the 29th November, 1899, the wife of Dr. von Lossberg, died at Ipswich, after
a long illness.
The funeral will take place in Ipswich at 4 o'clock this (Thursday) Afternoon.
The Good Doctor.
Aboriginal people were treated as being somehow less than human, more primitive, therefore less evolved, almost
as part of the local wildlife to be shifted aside to make way for European plants, animals and progress.
This brings us into the 1880's to the point where there had been such a marked deterioration in their physical
wellbeing, that they were being described as "lazy, dirty, drunken blacks, thin, ragged and miserable".
This is how they came to be moving out to Deebing Creek Aboriginal Home with a former British soldier.
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The intention was to keep them away from the negative influences of white civilisation "namely keep them away
from the grog, and those ‘low classes of whites’ who took advantage of the women" and to “Christianise them”.
Two of the early European identities who had a major impact on the Mission were Mr W.H. Foote and Dr Von
Lossberg.
Mr Foote owned a number of properties in the area around the mission and residents from the home worked on
these properties. He was a member of the Ipswich firm of Cribb and Foote, General Merchants, who had the
contract for the supply of groceries to Deebing Creek and the Purga Missions for many years, including the period
when the Salvation Army administered the Mission.
Dr Von Lossberg was the medical practitioner who treated Mission residents for their illnesses.
He regularly made home visits to the Mission.
He made a contribution of inestimable value to ensuring the physical survival of the Aboriginal population.
At the time of the commencement of Dr Von Lossberg's involvement, the Aboriginal population comprised the
scattered remnants of local tribes (who had been described in those disparaging terms referred to previously).
When persons were sent to Deebing Creek from other areas and were suffering from illnesses, it was Dr Von
Lossberg who treated them.
The Good Doctor Lost.
Monday 4 July 1864
Dr. Von Lossberg, of Ipswich, whose absence from that town we noticed a few days ago it being supposed that he
had lost his way in the bush-arrived at his home on Thursday last.
According to the Queensland Times of Saturday the following narrative is by his own hand:-"I left Ipswich on the
22nd to see a patient, residing on Telamon Station, about 15 miles from here.
I arrived in the evening, and stayed with my patient until the following; day, when his condition was so much
improved that my assistance was not required any longer.
I left the following day at ten a.m. (June 23), and a black boy accompanied me for about two miles on the road. At
starting I was under the impression he would go with me to make the next station, about fifteen miles distant, as the
country is a very mountainous one; but I could not induce him to do so.
From this time up to Tuesday, the 28th of June-viz., nearly six days and five nights, I was wandering about the
bush.
I lost my horse the second day after leaving Telamon Station.
Not having matches or blankets with me, without food of any description, my condition during the cold nights is
better imagined than described. Having a little quinine and laudanum with me, I occasionally took small doses,
which gave me great relief.
When my strength was nearly failing me, on the sixth day, I fancied I heard the bleating of sheep. I made for the
sound, and, after travelling a little while in that direction, I found myself at Mr. Collins, Maroon Station, where I
was treated with princely hospitality.
I had sufficiently recovered to leave the next morning, and was kindly supplied with a horse.
Passing Cudgen and Dugandan, I arrived in the evening at the Peak Mountain. I can't sufficiently thank the
gentlemen at the above stations for their kindness and true Australian hospitality shown to me. I safely arrived here
on Thursday last at mid-day."
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Mr. A. H. Warner-Shand J.P
Age
Birth:
Classification: Legal
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Acting Police Magistrate of Ipswich.
Captain in the defence force.
MARRIAGE
SHAND-LLOYD -On the 7th January 1879, at the residence of the father of the bride, by the Rev. Robert Mahalm,
Augustus Henry Warner Shand, of Wonbah Station, Wide Bay district, to Frances Mary, eldest daughter of E H.
Lloyd, Esq, of Redbank Station, Burnett district.
BIRTHS. SHAND.-On the 21st February 1893, at Ipswich, the wife of A.H. Warner Shand, of a daughter.
Mr Augustus Henry Warner Shand, the Police Magistrate who presided at the Magisterial Inquiry at Gatton, died in
Brisbane on 18 December 1922, aged seventy-four years.
Born at Antigua, West Indies, in 1848, and came to Queensland as a young man in or about the year 1873, from
Liverpool, England, where he was educated.
He was, for a time, a partner in a grazing property, which was unsuccessful and afterwards he was appointed Clerk
of Petty Sessions at St George.
Later he was appointed Clerk of Petty Sessions at Ipswich, and was Acting Magistrate there during the early part of
1899.
He was subsequently appointed Police Magistrate at Longreach from which appointment he eventually retired or
resigned.
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Mr.William Edward Parry - Okeden
Age
58
Birth:
Classification: Police
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Commissioner of Police
Players History:
William Edward Parry-Okeden, was Under Colonial Secretary to 30 June 1893.
Born Snowy River, 1840 (ADB, p147)
Appointed Inspector of Border Patrol Appointed Under Colonial Secretary, 1889 (COL/E109/89/344 & QGG, Vol
97: 1016)
Appointed Acting Commissioner, 1892 (COL/E137/92/21 & QGG, Vol 105: 224)
Appointed Commissioner, 1895 (COL/E178/95/222 & QGG, Vol 113: 1530)
Appointed Protector of Aboriginals for Colony, 1898 (QGG, Vol 69: 66) Retired 1905 (A/45223)
Died Brisbane, 30th August 1926 aged 86 (ADB, p148)
Staff file Unknown
Notes Father David was owner of Mt Debatable station, Gayndah, 1867; Police Magistrate at Cunnamulla (187275), Charleville (1873-81) and Gayndah.
At the time of the Brisbane Royal National Association's annual Exhibition in August 1924, he was hit by a motor
car in Adelaide Street and suffered injuries which confined him to his bed for the last two years of his life.
Upon his death he was paid a last tribute by his old friend Frederick Charles Urquhart in the following poem:
Full was the load your constant spirit carried,
The heat, the burden of the days gone past;
Long was the waiting for the rest that tarried,
Now it has come at last.
Through many trials of life's uncertain dealing,
Though oft times worn, and tom, and tempest tossed;
Thy kindly ways the gentle heart revealing,
Were kept and never lost.
Goodbye; good friend and Chief of old respected,
Now you have reached the traveller's final bourne;
May you still know the monument erected,
In these our hearts who mourn.
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Catherine Byrnes
Age
23
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Maybe Catherine Hayes
Miss Beatrice Hallas
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 17 of 105
Frank Hallas
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Mr. Cushing
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
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Acting-Sergeant William John Arrell
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 5/06/32
Description
Born 1853
Players History:
Father's name: Henry John Arrell
Acting-Sergeant William Arrell Sergeant of Police in Gatton.
Constable W. Arrell, Acting C.P.S. To be Sergeant at Gatton.
As From the 1st November, 1898.
Acting Sergeant William Arrell, Reg. No. 480.
Joined the force in October, 1877
1887-NERANG
Harrisville in 1892
Left Gatton in February 1901, and was retired from the police force on medical grounds on 1 May 1908. He died in
Brisbane 5 June 1932.
Hi wife’s name was Lillie E they had 2 children Henry J. and unknown Arrell.
18/01/1898
Our Gatton correspondent writes:-On Friday evening last Sergeant A. M'Donald, who has been stationed in charge
of the police district here for the past two years, was given a complimentary send-off on the eve of his departure for
the metropolis. About twenty gentlemen assembled at Mr. Gilbert's Hotel to spend a social hour and wish him goodbye. Among the speakers at the gathering were-Messrs. C. B. Wiggins. J.P., John Skinner, J.P., W. A. Wellstead,
R, James, T. Woodgate, J. K. Fowles, &c. All these gentlemen spoke in highly complimentary terms of the guest of
the evening, and expressed regret at his departure, with hearty good wishes for his future welfare. Acting Sergeant
Arrell, of Harrisville, who has been promoted to the charge of the Gatton station, arrived here on Saturday last,
accompanied by his, wife and family.
The Brisbane Courier Saturday 20 November 1897
LEGAL NOTICES.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND.
In the LANDS and GOODS of SARAH ARRELL, late of Wooloowin, near Brisbane, in the Colony of
Queensland, Widow, Deceased, Intestate.
Notice is hereby given that, after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof, application will be
made to this Honourable Court that LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION of the real and personal estate of the
abovenamed Sarah Arrell, deceased, who died Intestate, may be granted to WILLIAM JOHN ARRELL, of
Harrisville, in the Colony of Queensland, Sergeant of Police, the Eldest Son of the said deceased.
Dated this Nineteenth day of November, A.D. 1897.
J. BENNION PRICE, Solicitor for the said William John Arrell, 145 Queen-street,
Brisbane.
The Brisbane Courier Monday 14 February 1898
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TRANSMISSION BY DEATH. REAL PROPERTY ACTS OF 1861 AND 1877.
Notice is hereby given, that applications have been made for the Registration of Transmission of Title to the Lands
herein- after mentioned. Particulars of such applications are given below, and any person desiring to oppose must
do so by lodging a Caveat, on or before the day specified, at the Principal Office of the Registrar of Titles, in
Brisbane, unless the lands are situated within the Central or Northern District, in which case the Caveat must be
lodged at the local District Registry at Rockhampton or Townsville.
Name of Deceased Proprietor.-Sarah Arrell, late of Wooloowin, near Brisbane, widow.
Date of Death.-13th November, 1897.
Name of Claimant.-William John Arrell, of Gatton, sergeant of police.
Description and Situation of Land.-Re subdnisions 130, 131, 144, and 145 of sub- division 1 of portion_193,
county of Stanley, parish of Enoggera.
Estate Claimed to be Transmitted.-Fee simple.
Particulars of Will or Otherwise.-Letters of Administration.
Date within which Caveat may be Lodged.
-19th March, 1898.
Arrell’s Father I think.
Wednesday 1 June 1881
The door was open.
In the reporters' room a death-like silence reigned. "Then in a voice monotonous and hollow as a ghost's" the
strange man told his tale.
There had been a curious accident at Gatton.
Police Constable Arrell was engaged in grooming his horse, which, fastened by a halter, had become restless, and
rearing suddenly over had broken his neck.
Death had been instantaneous.
"Dear me, very dreadful, very, very dreadful!" said our sub-editor rubbing his hands in a manner there was no
mistaking as he bowed his informant downstairs. "Many thanks, sir, for these sad details; good-night.”
In the midst of life we are in death.
Good-night, my dear sir." Then a great sigh of satisfied relief went up from the reporters' room, and it was felt that
Constable Arrell had committed a noble act of self-sacrifice in rescuing the morning's paper from utter dullness by
breaking his neck.
In spite of the decorous gravity of our sub-editor's face, a certain buoyancy of gait, which had replaced the former
desponding listlessness, told us who knew him of the elation of his soul. Suddenly he remembered that we had no
particulars of the deceased, and a reporter was despatched, who caught the informant within fifty yards of the office
door. "Had the poor creature any youngsters asked the breathless reporter.” "Youngsters?" repeated the other; "I
can't say; but I think he was a gelding." "I beg your pardon?" "Anyhow he was a chestnut, I know that much." "You
mistake me," commenced the reporter, "I mean the poor man who broke his neck, Constable Arrell, you know."
Then there was a loud bout of laughter, which, penetrating the window of the reporters room, fell somehow like a
chill upon everybody, it was only the horse after all, and no one dared go near tho editor's den for the rest of the
night- ENDYMION.
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Constable M'Inernay
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Constable Handle
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
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Miss Florence (Florrie) Lowe
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Spinster Schoolteacher.
Mrs. Hallen
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
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Detective Head
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
Mrs. Connolly
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
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Mrs. Veitch
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
Sergeant Fay
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
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Sergeant Wyer
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
Constable Gaffney
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
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Mr. J. V. Herbert
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
The solicitor for Burgess
Sergeant Geary
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
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Sub-inspector John Warren-White
Age
Birth:
Description
1/01/1863
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 1/06/47
First Class Sub-Inspector of Police, Criminal Investigation Branch of the Queensland Police Force
Players History:
White, John Warren
Born 1863
Appointed Cadet, 1882 (POL/4/620)
Promoted 2nd Class Sub Inspector, 1884 (QPG, Vol 21: 66 & QGG, Vol 34: 895)
Promoted 1st Class Sub Inspector, 1894 (COL/E171/94/430 & QGG, Vol 62: 1013)
Promoted 1st Class Inspector, 1907 (QGG, Vol 88: 1334)
Retired 1911 (A/40349) Due to ill health.
Died South Brisbane, 1947 (A/40349) Staff file AF/2347 (A/40349)
Notes Served at various Cape York Peninsula camps (1882-89) and captured the “Bunya Blackfellow” (a
Melanesian man)
in 1889. Married Elizabeth (Ruby) Barker in 1892 (QBDM) and his brother (CBB White) applied unsuccessfully
to join the Native Police in 1897.
Sub Inspector John White was a witness at the CIB RC in 1899, after the Gatton Murders
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Dr. Charles James Hill Wray
Age
Birth:
Classification: Medical
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
HILL WRAY C J (Dr) (Surgeon Supt) Arrived in the Colony aboard the Immigration: Ship Zamora 26 Apr 1877.
Monday 12 January 1880
Medical. -Charles James Hill Wray, of Brisbane, and Henry Kay, of Clermont, have been registered as duly
qualified medical practitioners.
Appointed to the Medical Board of Queensland in 1887.
Dr Charles James Hill Wray, L.R.C.S. (Edin.), L.R.C.P. (Edin.). The principal Government medical officer at
Brisbane died prematurely in 1902.
There was an outbreak of bubonic plague in Brisbane in that year and Dr Wray, as a result of his ministrations to
those infected, caught the plague himself and died in Wattle brae Hospital, Brisbane, on 8 May 1902.
Besides the appointment of Government Medical Officer, Brisbane, Dr Wray also held the posts of Visiting
Surgeon to the Benevolent Asylum at Dunwich and the Lock Hospital, Brisbane, and Health Officer at the
Quarantine Station, Brisbane.
At the time of his death, Mr Archibald Meston wrote of the late Dr Wray: Only those who knew him as the kindly
physician or the amiable and sincere friend could know how pure a diamond was enshrined in that somewhat rough
and unpretentious matrix.
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Sergeant Walter Stewart King
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Sergeant of Police in Laidley
Players History:
King, Walter S., appointed, for Police District of Warwick appointed—
Inspector of Slaughter-houses. 1868
Stationed at Laidley on 22nd November 1898
Edward Litton Carus-Wilson
Age
49
Birth: 27/07/1849
Involved In:
Oxley
Death: 19/08/1929
Description
Players History:
In New Zealand in 1872
Gender: Male Birth: 27 JUL 1849 Of, Casterton, Westmorland, England.
First Wife Margaret Jane WHITSITT.
One child Claude CARUS-WILSON.
Married: in All Saints, Palmerston , North New Zealand.
Second Wife Catherine Maud HILL.
Married: 1889 in Paddington, London, Middlesex, England.
One child Alice Maud Mary CARUS-WILSON born 1890 in South Australia
Died of myocardial degeneration and senile decay in 1929
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Claude William Carus-Wilson
Age
11
Birth: 23/12/1887
Involved In:
Oxley
Death: 1/01/56
Description
Players History:
Born 1878
Thomas Wilson
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Wilson was a magistrate and a blacksmith, of Gatton.
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James Skinner
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Carter.
James Portley
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Supernumerary Constable.
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Charles Drew
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Thomas Joseph Ryan
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Labourer and drover.
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Mrs. Margaret Carroll
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Widow.
John Carroll
Age
14
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
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Arthur Brooking
Age
17
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Thomas Nathaniel Woodgate
Age
36
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Station-master at Gatton
The Sydney Morning Herald Monday 9 February 1903
DEATH OF A STATIONMASTER.
BRISBANE, Saturday.
An accident under somewhat peculiar circurnstances occurred on Friday night at Gatton. After the 5.35 p.m.
passenger train from Brisbane to Toowoomba had left Gatton a report was received at the station that a passenger
had jumped off the train about half a mile from the station. It is presumed that the station master, Mr. R. N.
Woodgate, went in search of the man. Mr. Woodgate was afterwards found under Lockyer Creek bridge in a
critical condition.
Dr. M'Donald was summoned and found his skull fractured. The sufferer never regained consciousness and died at
7.30 a.m. to-day. Nothing was seen
of the passenger who is reported by the guard of the train on arrival at Grantham to have jumped from a first-class
carriage.
Mr. Woodgate was 41 years old and had been stationmaster at Gatton for nearly 20 years.
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Man at Sliprails (Descriptions)
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
All the witnesses agreed that the person was a stranger to the district.
The person was between 5ft. 7in. and 5ft 9in. in height, and medium to thick-set.
Had a large moustache, and a very remarkable face.
Wore dark blue clothes, coat or shirt, and a dark, grey, soft felt slouch hat drawn over the face and had the brim
pulled down all round.
Another witness said the person wore a coat, rather long, and came down in front.
The voice was low, and with a peculiar treble quality (a high, shrill voice). The voice was different from any
witness had heard before.
The person had a small parcel in the hand; it didn't shine, and witness could not see what it was.
One witness saw the person make a kind of stagger.
Walter Albert Cook
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Farmer.
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John Wiggins
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Farmer.
William Wiggins
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Farmer.
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Charles Gilbert
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Licensee of the "Brian Boru Hotel" now the Imperial.
Richard James
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Chemist.
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Robert Ballantyne
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 18/10/1925
Description
Players History:
Stockkeeper and justice of the peace.
The death of Mr. Robert ("Bob") Ballantine took place on Sunday evening at his residence in Gatton. He
commenced business as a storekeeper in Gatton 40 years ago, and retired from active business in 1918. He was a
member of the' Tarampa Shire Council for several years.
George Callaghan
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Farmer.
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Thomas Jordan
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Farmer.
Constable Perkins
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Rosewood
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John Joseph Murphy Policeman
Age
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Police Constable Not related.
Players History:
On the Gatton electoral roll in 1903.
It seems he was stationed there to maybe help solve the crime.
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Alfred Stephen Hill
Age
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Murder Victim
Players History:
MISSING FRIENDS.
Information is requested, at the instance of J. Halliday, Nundah, as to the present whereabouts of Alfred Hill, who
left his home at Nundah on the 10th instant, riding a piebald pony branded J 7H near shoulder, with the intention of
visiting his aunt (Mrs. Greaves) at Redbank Plains , but lie has not since been heard of. Ile is between 15 and 16
years of age, 5 feet 2 inches height, fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes, straight nose; a saddler, and native of
Queensland; was wearing light clothes; very boyish-looking. Information to the Officer in Charge of the Criminal
Investigation Branch, Brisbane. Hill's mutilated body has since been found near Oxley. Offender, Wilson, referred
to in preceding paragraph, is suspected of having murdered Hill.-O. 1,643. 20th December, 1898.
DESCRIPTION OF PORTRAITS, WITH PREVIOUS "GAZETTE" REFERENCE.
(Vide Police Gazette, 1898, page 504.)
No. 56. -ALFRED HILL, missing friend, who left his home on the morning of the 10th ultimo with the intention of
riding to Redbank Plains on a visit to an aunt. He visited a friend of the family at Oxley (Mrs. Catchpole), and after
delivering a letter resumed his journey, but did not arrive at his destination, and has not since been heard of. (For
further particulars see above reference .) -O. 1643. 27th December, 1898.
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Frederick John Hill
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Father of Alfred
Mr. Quodling
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Government experimental farms
Players History:
In charge of Westbrook experimental farm.
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Paddy Perkins
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
The famous black tracker
Players History:
These are the trackers who tracked the Kelly gang. The two seated at the bottom are from Queensland and I
presume one is Paddy Perkins.
"Paddy Perkins," whose native name was Boondow.
Conquian
Age
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Black tracker
Players History:
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Sub-inspector Percy Dumas Fead
Galbraith
Age
45
Birth: 17/05/1854
Description
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 27/01/1926
First Class Sub-Inspector of Police
Players History:
Galbraith, Percy Dumas Fead (Nicknamed Gal).
Born County Cork, 17 May 1854
Appointed Cadet
Promoted 2nd Class Sub Inspector, 1884 (QGG, Vol 34: 1316)
Promoted 2nd Class Inspector, 1900 (QGG, Vol 74: 1672)
Promoted 1st Class Inspector, 1909 (QGG, Vol 74: 957)
Resigned Medically unfit 1st October 1910 (A/40283)
Died Townsville, 27 January 1926
Staff file AF/2183 (A/40283)
Notes Formerly in New Zealand Police; witness at RC into CIB 1899.
In command of detachment searching for “the Breelong Blacks” (the Governors) in NSW, 1900. Served at
Normanton from 1901 to 1904, and was appointed Aboriginal Protector there, 1901.
When he retired he moved to Townsville where he was employed by a large commercial firm practically up to the
time of his death.
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Father Daniel Walsh
Age
41
Birth:
1/01/1857
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 25/09/39
Description
1904
Players History:
Catholic Priest.
Born 1857.
Arrived in the Colony aboard the SS Durham in October 1877.
A man of genial manner and good nature.
Died 25th of September 1939 aged 81.
Buried in Gatton.
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Acting Sergeant Michael Toomey
Age
32
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Was a constable in 1897
Players History:
Born 1866
Michael Toomey reached the rank of Senior Sergeant and resigned from the Police Force in August 1911.
He died in Sydney on 1 January 1932.
January 1901
ADELAIDE DETECTIVES.
During the Commonwealth celebrations in Sydney the interests of the visitors and the general public were guarded
by a large number of detectives and police.
Every State, and also New Zealand, was represented by detectives. Six went from Victoria, three from Queensland,
two from South Australia and West Australia, and one each from Tasmania and New Zealand, whilst Subinspector, Hindes represented Newcastle.
The object of the visit of the detectives was to keep an eye on criminals from their respective States.
South Australia was represented by Detectives Fraser and Priest, two of our best investigators of crime. They
returned to Adelaide on Sunday morning. Detective Fraser stated that the celebrations were carried out without any
extraordinary increase of crime. In fact, criminals and other gentry bordering on that class were kept well within
bounds.
The Adelaide men had plenty to occupy their attention, being continually on the watch. On Thursday, January 10,
the Government of New South Wales entertained the police at a smoke social and concert in the Sydney Town
Hall.
Over 1,000 detectives and police were present, and a number of prominent citizens also attended.
Whilst in Sydney, Detective Fraser apprehended a man named E. C. Clarke, who was "wanted" in Adelaide on a
charge of false pretences.
He appeared at the Police Court on Monday.
On the night of 7 January while standing in Martin Place opposite the Post Office when Joseph Baker a Queensland
criminal suddenly lunged at him and plunged a butcher's knife into his back.
Baker was arrested by Toomey and had been serving a long term of imprisonment for house breaking in Brisbane,
and only a short time prior to this incident, was been released from prison under an amnesty proclaimed by the new
Commonwealth Government.
He was well known to the Adelaide men, who visited him in the hospital just before they left for Adelaide. They
say he is recovering rapidly, and is now out of danger.
Detective Michael Toomey was in a critical condition for some time but subsequently recovered.
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Senior-sergeant Johnson
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Of Ipswich
Page 47 of 105
Mr. Archibald Meston (1851-1924)
Age
47
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Superintendent of the Fraser Island aboriginal colony
Players History:
Aged 73 he died at the Brisbane General Hospital on 11 March 1924, survived by his wife and by four sons and
one daughter of their seven children.
MESTON, ARCHIBALD (1851-1924), journalist, civil servant and explorer, was born at Donside, Aberdeen,
Scotland, son of Alexander Meston and his wife Margaret, née Clark.
In the Saldhana he went with his parents to Sydney in 1859 and lived at Ulmarra on the Clarence River where his
father taught him the rudiments of farming.
At 19 he spent six months in Queensland rambling through the country districts; he returned to New South Wales
and at Sydney married Margaret Frances Prowse Shaw.
They went to the Clarence River district and in 1874 to Queensland where he managed the Pearlwell plantation of
Dr Waugh on the Brisbane River. From December 1875 he was editor of the Ipswich Observer until 1881 when its
office was moved to Brisbane as the Daily Observer and East Moreton Advocate.
From November 1878 to July 1882 Meston represented Rosewood in the Queensland Legislative Assembly,
serving for two years as party whip. The German settlers in his electorate supported him but he was censured by the
Lord Australische Zeitung for defecting from his party in the 'steel rails' controversy.
He contested the seat of Cook in 1907 without success.
From February to August 1881 Meston edited the Townsville Herald but became insolvent in November and was
not discharged until 1885.
By then he had moved to Cairns where he managed the sugar cane plantation of Horace Brinsmead & Co. on the
Barron River until 1889.
He also served on the Cairns Divisional Board and was its chairman from February 1883 to July 1884. Involved
with the Cairns Railway League, he advocated that port as the coastal terminus of the proposed line to the western
mines. Rival leagues claimed Port Douglas and Mourilyan but Cairns was chosen.
Early interested in exploration, Meston had climbed Mount Kosciusko in 1860. This pastime brought him into
contact with the Aboriginals whose customs, habits and languages he studied. An observer of natural history, he led
a government party in January 1889 to the Bellenden Ker Range and explored its summit, finding a new plant of
the mangosteen family; it was named Garcinia mestonii in his honour.
The report on this exploration was published and his successful journey led to other official engagements.
In 1894 he was commissioned by Horace Tozer, colonial secretary in the Nelson ministry, to prepare plans for
improving the lot of Queensland Aboriginals. His proposals were embodied in the Aboriginals Protection Act of
1897.
He was made a justice of the peace and from January 1898 to December 1903 was protector of Aboriginals for
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southern Queensland which later included the central division.
In 1910 Meston was appointed director of the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau in Sydney and continued
free-lance journalism.
A picturesque figure, he was caricatured by Will Donald in the Bulletin. On retiring from the public service he
returned to Brisbane.
His writings on early Queensland and on the Aboriginals and their lore were very readable although embellished
with rhetoric.
A student of Greek mythology, he was reputed to keep parliamentary reporters in turmoil with obscure legendary
references.
In 1895 his Geographic History of Queensland had been published in Brisbane.
Meston had some success in such sports as swimming, running, rowing, boxing, hammer-throwing and weightlifting.
He was also a good marksman and learned to throw the spear and boomerang from his Aboriginal acquaintances.
Chief Inspector John Stuart
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
John Stuart, Inspector of Police, 1879
Acting Sub-Inspector of Police, John Stuart, 1871.
Superannuated from the Queensland Police Force on 1 March 1900.
He died in Sydney on 2 August 1914.
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Sub-inspector Herbert Rowland Pasley
Durham
Age
34
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Sub-Inspector Durham joined the force in 1884.
He was a sub-inspector before Parry-Okeden became Commissioner.
There was a classification since, and he received promotion to first-class.
Police Staff File, Hurbert Rowland Pasley Durham, A/38785
Inquest into death of Herbert Rowland Pasley Durham at Hughenden, JUS/N365/06/503
Of the twenty-one officers in the higher ranks, fourteen retired. Four died while still serving. These were Inspectors
John Ahern, Thomas Clohesy, Thomas Judge and Herbert Durham. The causes of Ahern and Judge’s deaths are
unknown.
Clohesy died after a brief illness, and Durham took his own life after a young Constable laid a charge of sexual
misconduct
Durham, Herbert Rowland Pasley
Born Unknown
Appointed Cadet, 1884 (QPG, Vol 21: 117)
Promoted 2nd Class Sub Inspector, 1885 (COL/E67/85/189 & QGG, Vol 36: 1906)
Promoted 1st Class Sub Inspector, 1894 (COL/E171/94/430 & QGG, Vol 42: 1013)
Promoted 2nd Class Inspector, 1904 (A/38785)
Reduced 1st Class Sub Inspector, 1906 (A/38785 & QGG, Vol 87: 273)
Died Suicide at Hughenden, 1906 (A/38785 and JUS/N365/06/503) Staff file AF/502 (A/38785)
Notes Married Mary Ann Morse, 1887; at Thargomindah, 1894; appointed Transport Officer for Fourth Contingent
to Boer War, 1900 (QGG, Vol 73: 1379); appointment cancelled, 1901 (QGG, Vol 76: 540); served at Boer War
1900-01 (NAA) and awarded Queen’s Medal with clasp.
During the Boer war. Promoted to Transport Officer; Queen's Medal with clasps Captain.
Fourth (Queensland Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
Departed: May 18, 1900
Returned: August 5, 1901.
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Mr. Hargreave
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Ironmonger.
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Mr. John Plumper Hoolan, M.L.A
Age
Birth:
Classification: Politician
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Member for Bourke. Who takes a deep interest in the case, and is as prolific of good ideas as "Sherlock Holmes."
Friday 10 February 1899
THE MISTAKES OF THE LABOUR PARTY.
In the course of his "entertainment" at Ipswich on Wednesday night, Mr. J. P. Hoolan, M.L.A. (as reported in the
"Queensland Times"), said, referring to the Labour party :-They had a chance to do a great deal of good, but instead
they did a great deal of wrong.
He did not object to allying himself with anybody who tried to do a great deal of good, even if that person did
happen to do wrong. But he did object to being guided wrongly three or four times.
He did not think the party fit to guide anyone, seeing that they had been unable to guide themselves during the past
ten years. (Applause.)
They commenced with a socialistic creed, founded on books. Amongst the whole pack of the A.L F. there was not
one reasonable idea on the subject.
He challenged them on the " Standard" with all its logic and powers of word-painting to refute his assertion. Look
at the maritime strike. It was an absolute failure.
He alluded to some of the details of the strike, and said that, at Cooktown, when wires came through announcing
the departure of workmen from Brisbane, he advised the men then on the spot to return to their work, telling them
that they could do no good by the strike.
He gave the authorities of the A.L.F. honest and faithful advice, but it was rejected with scorn.
He came to Brisbane from Cooktown, and advised them that the strike was over, but they said that they had another
card to play. That was that sensible A.L.F., the same party who now tried to throttle politicians and guide the
destinies of the colony.
They said, "We will call out the men in the bush."
His remonstrances were of no use. The men in the bush were called out, and with what result was well known.
In 1891 carne another strike.
There were then some thirty pastoral tenants concerned, seven or eight of whom he knew personally. Some twenty
of them were most humane and honourable men, who believed in paying good rates for labour-wages such as the
returns from their properties warranted. They made a most reasonable offer, but that wonderful combination of men
who composed the A.L.F. declined the offer they decided to reject the hand of friendship, and everyone knew the
outcome. Even through all that he challenged them to say that he condemned them.
On the contrary, he upheld so far as he could everything they did.
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Mr. George Wilson
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Lower Tent Hill State School, the head teacher-a brother
Mr. Purnell
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Preacher
Page 53 of 105
Mr. Norman Rule
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Previous owner of the Murphy's property.
Land commissioner for Brisbane, Ipswich and West Moreton Died sometime in 1891
A Man Named Howard
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Said he heard a plot to meet the Murphy's’ arranged.
Page 54 of 105
Constable Edwards
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Death:
Description
Players History:
Mr. William Ramsay
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
The foreman of the Roma St goods shed.
Page 55 of 105
Mrs. Maria Catchpole
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Thomas Day
Age
22
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
22 1/2 years of age, 5 feet 8 1/2 inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, dark-brown hair,
hazel eyes
May be ancestors John and
Thomas Williamson
John & Sarah
Williamson 1900
Coomera Home of J ohn & Sarah
Williamson & family
Players History:
13th May, 1899.
DESERTED from "A" Battery, Queensland Permanent Artillery, at Lytton Fort, on the 13th instant, Thomas Day,
gunner, and William Charl Chaston, gunner. Description :-22 1/2 years of age, 5 feet 8 1/2 inches high, medium
build, fresh complexion, dark-brown hair, hazel eyes ; a labourer, and native of Cunnamulla, Queensland. Said to
be known to Mr. Clark, Tent Hill.
Page 56 of 105
Mr. O'Brien
Age
90
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Of Moggill
Players History:
He is one of the hardy pioneers to whom the colony is indebted for the work of settlement done in the early days.
Mrs. O'Brien
Age
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Of Moggill
Players History:
Page 57 of 105
Rev. Smiley
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Of Allora
Players History:
Proved that it was this reverend gentleman who passed Burgess on the evening of Christmas Day.
Mr. Smiley was wearing a white helmet, as Burgess stated.
Mrs. Pierson's
Age
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Danish Woman
Players History:
Page 58 of 105
Mr. Irvine
Age
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Death:
Description
Players History:
Mr. Forsyth
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 59 of 105
Mr. Michael Fallon
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Farmer.
Mr. Beck
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 60 of 105
Mrs. Nightingale
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Mr. M'Donald
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 61 of 105
James D. Nethercot
Age
32
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Death: 15/04/37
Promoted to first class sub inspector on 1/7/1897
Players History:
Sub-inspector James Nethercote stated that he joined the force as a constable in June, 1876, having previously had
experience in England.
In 1870 he was appointed a second-class detective, and in 1885 a first class detective. In the latter end of the same
year he was raised to the rank of senior detective in charge of the Detective force.
He was afterwards appointed a second-class sub-inspector, and on 1st July, 1892, he was promoted to the rank and
pay of a first-class sub-inspector. It did not appear in the "Police Gazette" until September; but the appointment
dated from July.
He did not know whether this was stated in the "Gazette"; but he drew the pay of £260.
He drew the pay up to July, 1896.
He was then appointed to the temporary full charge of the C.I. Branch on the retirement of Inspector Lloyd.
Page 62 of 105
Theodore Oscar Unmack
Age
64
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death:
Description
Players History:
Politician Theodore Unmack was born on 21 November 1835 in Hamburg, Germany.
Deputy Grand Master, Irish Constitution, Theodore Oscar Unmack, Esq., J.P., Consul for the German Empire.
Arrived in Australia in 1853.
He came to Brisbane in 1860 and traded with his partner J. C. Heussler as a wholesale merchant.
On the 11th of September 1874, Robina, wife of Theodore Unmack, and second daughter of John Bryce, died.
His mother Johanna Unmack died on the 20th September 1885, at Hamburg.
He was the MLA for Toowong from 1888 - 1893.
Appointmented to the 1899 Police Commission along with:
Judge Noel (chairman), Messrs. F. W. Dickson, barrister-at-law, T. Garvin, a superintendent in the New South
Wales Police Force, J. Sadlier, late inspecting superintendent of the Victorian Police, and T. O. Unmack, with Mr.
J. W. Blair, barrister-at-law, as secretary.
He died on 17 September 1919 in Brisbane.
Secretary for Railways and Postmasters-General Aug 1890 - Mar 1893
Justices of the Peace Date Oath Given 8-Apr-1901.
His House
Moana - 88 Moray Street New Farm
Moray Street was first surveyed in the 1870’s running parallel between Brunswick Street & the Brisbane River, on
an elevated area of New Farm. Moray Street overlooked the Brisbane River and was a prized residential location.
In 1885 businessman & politician Theodore Unmack bought two of these allotments with a frontage to Moray
Street, a site of almost 1,690 square metres in the area. He later added further allotments at the rear of his holding
and by 1886 he owned land through to the lane behind (now Gilbey Lane), The total size of all his combined
purchases was almost 140 perches, or more than 3,500 square metres.
Moana was designed by Banks & Caradini and constructed in 1886. Theodore Unmack lived in the home until 1913
Page 63 of 105
William Colville
Age
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Death:
Description
Players History:
William Francis Devitt
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
Married.
Joined the army and sent to South Africa on the 18th of November 1899 as a Bugler.
Page 64 of 105
Judge Arthur Baptist Noel
Age
44
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death:
Description
1855-1923
Players History:
Arthur Baptist Noel – A District Court Judge, his practical knowledge and caustic wit were highly valued by his
peers.
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the 16 December, 1855 and died in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on
the 21 January, 1923.
He practised as a lawyer in Brisbane, Queensland, and was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1880 and to the
Queensland Bar in 1881.
Judge Arthur Baptist Noel was also acting Supreme Court Judge. (Information taken from: Biographical register
1788-1939
He succeed the late Mr. Hely as Northern District Court Judge in January 1883.
The Misses Wilson
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Schoolmaster’s two daughters
Page 65 of 105
Mary Callahan
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Michael Donoghue
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Butcher.
Page 66 of 105
Frank Moran
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Farmer.
Gerald Hanbury
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Assistant clerk of petty sessions at the South Brisbane court.
Page 67 of 105
Mrs. Cook
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Mrs. Cook, postmistress at Lower Tent Hill.
Michael Connolly
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Friend of the Murphy's.
Page 68 of 105
Thomas Drew
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
A butcher, an employee of Michael Donoghue
Page 69 of 105
Frederic Charles Urquhart
Age
40
Birth:
Description
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Frederic Charles Urqhuart, born 27 October 1858, was the Chief Inspector of Police. (Description
supplied with photograph)
Players History:
MR. F. C. URQUHART.
Appointed commissioner in 1917 replacing Major Cahill who held the position for 11 years (1906)
Mr. F. C. Urquhart, retiring administrator for the Northern Territory, reached Melbourne yesterday by the rotor-ship
Malabar. Mr. Urquhart's term of office expires on January 1. 1926
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2175421?searchTerm=urquhart
Urquhart, Frederick Charles
Born England, 1858 (A/47932)
Appointed Cadet, 1882 (QPG, Vol 19: 77)
Promoted 2nd Class Sub Inspector, 1882 (QPG, Vol 19: 132 & QGG, Vol 31: 83)
Promoted 1st Class Sub Inspector, 1893 (A/47932 & QGG, Vol 60: 350)
Promoted 2nd Class Inspector, 1897 (QPG, Vol 34: 172 & QGG, Vol 67: 1090)
Promoted 1st Class Inspector, 1904 (COL/E158/93/310 & QGG, Vol 82: 307)
Promoted Chief Inspector, 1905 (A/47932 & QGG, Vol 84: 1781)
Promoted Commissioner, 1917 (A/45223, A/47932 & QGG, Vol 108: 86)
Retired 1921 (A/47932)
Died Brisbane, 2 December 1935 at the age of seventy-seven years. (A/47932)
Staff file AF/3377 (A/47932)
His friend, Major-General Spencer Browne, wrote of him:
Then, while we were at Gatton, there came a Woolloongabba tragedy, and the murder of the boy Hill near Oxley,
and, on the whole of the three crimes, the police were beaten. Urquhart, as head of the Criminal Investigation
Department, came in for the bulk of the blame.
He was to be the scapegoat; but we had a Home Secretary who did not clamour for the despatch of Urquhart into
the wilderness with the police sins of omission on his shoulders.
That was Colonel Foxton, C.M.G., V.D. He asked me to see him as I had been at Gatton for about a month, and he
questioned me closely about Urquhart. I could confidently say that a keener and more earnest man had never been
on a job of the kind, and I put it to Foxton: “Can you suggest that there is a weakness in the department?
Do you think that Urquhart has not the ability to work out the mystery of these crimes, or do you think that a chain
of adverse circumstance-peculiar coincidences-has not blotted out -direct evidence?"
As a fact, we knew who murdered the boy Hill and the brute was gaoled for other crimes; and we had a pretty good
idea as to the bloody hand behind the Gatton tragedy, and Foxton knew those things also.
A searching inquiry did not "whitewash" the police, but re-established the force in public confidence, and Urquhart
became Chief Inspector, and then, in turn, took the blue ribbon of the service.
Page 70 of 105
Robert Smith
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Friend of Will Murphy.
It appears he lived at Spring Creek and joined the army and as a private was sent to South Africa on the 18th of
November 1899
John Tracey
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Aquaintance.
Page 71 of 105
Ted Chadwick
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Suitor.
Page 72 of 105
Sir James William Blair
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death:
Description
Players History:
Sir James William Blair, politician, barrister and judge, was born at Coalfalls, Ipswich, Queensland, on 16 May
1870.
Educated at Ipswich Grammar School.
He was admitted to the Queensland bar in 1894.
Blair contested a general election as an independent candidate for Ipswich, which then returned two members to the
Legislative Assembly. He was placed second to T. B. Cribb.
Appointed to the 1899 Police Commission along with:
Elected as Independent member for Ipswich in March 1902, serving in ministerial positions, retaining the seat until
1915.
He became Attorney-General in 1903 and was given the additional portfolio of mines in 1904. Blair lost his seat in
1915 and then concentrated on his legal practice.
He married May Christina Gibson in 1912.
In 1922 he became a Supreme Court Judge and 3 years later he was appointed Chief Justice, which he held until
1940.
In 1930 he was Knighted and in 1935 created a K.C.M.G.
In 1940 Blair retired from the bench but remained Lieutenant-Governor and chancellor of the university.
He died of cerebro-vascular disease on 18 November 1944 at the Mater Hospital in south Brisbane. (Information
taken from: Australian dictionary of biography, Vol. 7, 1979 and Australian Encyclopaedia, Vol 2, p. 25)
Page 73 of 105
James W. Small
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Acting sergeant at Goodna
Constable William Henderson
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Stationed at Oxley
Page 74 of 105
Constable MT Lynch
Age
Birth:
Involved In:
Death:
Description
Players History:
Clerk in the C.I. Branch
James J. Wakefield
Age
34
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Prisoner
Page 75 of 105
Mr. William Yaldwyn PM (Police
Magistrate)
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death:
Description
Miss Henrietta
Mary Yaldwyn,
second
daughter of
William
Yaldwyn, Esq.,
Police
Magistrate,
Ipswich.
William Henry
(Father)
Son Hamilton St Claire
Players History:
William Yaldwyn, the now retired police magistrate, of Brisbane, buried a six weeks old child on May 12, 1867.
Yaldwyn’s second wife is a daughter of the genial Phil Agnew, Post and Telegraph Master of Dunwich. The child
of 1867 was named Duncan Francis. Yaldwyn was one of the early squatters of the Dawson, and was out there in
1861, when 19 people were killed on Wills’ station on the Comet.
Father William Henry Yaldwyn 1801-1866, Sussex Squire Australian squatter - Member of Legislative Council of Queensland
Guy Henry Betts
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 76 of 105
Mr. Donald Cameron
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
The head master, Ipswich Grammar School, in 1898
Arthur George Clarke
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Butcher owner of Butchery in Gatton
Page 77 of 105
Arthur George Clarke Jnr
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Son of Butcher.
Was once carried on Thomas Day's shoulder long with his brother Mr. John Franklin Clarke (who was eight at the
time).
Julia Gleeson
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 78 of 105
Clement Batstone Wiggins
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Justice of the Peace in Gatton QUEENSLAND.
Tuesday 1 August 1899
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
GATTON, July 31.
The proposal to establish a bacon factory in Gatton has advanced another step. The provisional directors-namely,
Messrs, T. O'Brien, C. B. Wiggins, P. Dwyer, E. Whittle, and W. Reynolds, submitted a prospectus to a public
meeting held an the Divisional Hall on Saturday afternoon last. The company is to be purely co- operative, ,and the
capital will consist of £5000, in shares of £1 each, the liability of shareholder to be strictly confined to the value of
shares held. The prospectus, after some unimportant amendments, was unanimously adopted, and the hon.
secretary, Mr. W. A. Wellstead, was instructed to have 2000 copies printed for circulation throughout the district.
Applications for 223 shares were at once received in the room. It transpired at the meeting that the total numbers
of pigs consigned for the twelve months ending on 30th June last were as follow:-From Laidley, 3502 ; from
Gatton, 3158 ; from Helidon, 1558.-Among the farmers potato planting is pretty general at present, and it is
anticipated a larger area than usual will be sown this season. In a few localities maize planting is also going on. The
wheat, oats, barley, and rye crops look splendid, and are (making rapid growth. The weather has lately been most
favour- able-just enough rain to stimulate the growth of all vegetation without cooling or soddenlng the soil.-The
following is a return of produce, &c, received at the raliway station during the four weeks ending on Saturday
last :-Maize, 139 tons 9cwt; chaff, 121 tons 13cwt; potatoes, 66 tons 16cwt.; pumpkins, 50 tons; cream, 1335
gallons; and 343 pigs were trucked; also, timber in logs, 17 tons.
Page 79 of 105
Constable Robert George Christie
Age
0
Birth:
1/01/1873
Involved In:
Gatton
Death: 5/07/44
Description
Players History:
Police Constable in Gatton formerly stationed at Tambo.
Thomas Garvin, C.I.S.O, Inspector General
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death:
Description
Players History:
1st July, 1904 - 31st December, 1910
Thomas Garvin was born at Sydney in 1843, and joined the New South Wales Police Force on 27 August, 1862.
He was appointed a clerk in the officer of the Inspector-General, and later served as a Superintendent's clerk in
Armidale, Maitland, and Bathurst. In 1874 he was appointed an Inspector in charge of Orange sub-district, and
later Orange. He was appointed a Superintendent in 1890. In 1899, Garvin was appointed to the Queensland Police
Commission, which at the time was inquiring into the reconstruction of the Queensland Police Force, winning the
grateful esteem of the Queensland Premier for his invaluable assistance and sound administrative advice. During
the Commonwealth festivities commemorating the Royal visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, he was in charge
of the Mounted Troopers brought from all parts of the State for this very important and unique occasion.
On the 1st April, 1903, he was appointed Assistant Inspector-General, and on the 1st July, 1904, made InspectorGeneral. He proved a very able administrator and raised the level of the Mounted Police section to a very high
standard of efficiency, at the time the smartest in the Commonwealth. He was created a Companion of the Imperial
Service Order, in 1909, and retired on the 31st December, 1910. He died on the 6th February, 1922, aged 79 years.
Page 80 of 105
Caroline Eames nee Binden
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Caroline Eames (nee Burden or Binden), married to Thomas Eames.
Mr. and Mrs. Eames had a son Henry Eames embarked on the 19th September 1916 who was tragically killed in
action in Albert, France in WW1 on the 28th of March 1918.
The war ended on the 11th of November 1918.
His name along with others involved in the Gatton tragedy can be seen on the Gatton Weeping Mothers War
Memorial.
Henry Eames
Service number: 3799
Rank: Private [Pte]
Unit: 47th Battalion (Infantry)
Service: Army
Conflict: 1914-1918
Date of death: 28 March 1918
Cemetery or memorial details: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France
War Grave Register notes: EAMES, Pte. Henry, 3799. 47th Bn. 28th March, 1918. Age 24. Son of Thomas Eames
and his wife Caroline Binden, of Gatton, Queensland.
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Page 81 of 105
Detective Carew
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Mr. John Sadlier
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death:
Description
Players History:
Mr. John Sadlier, late inspecting superintendent of police in Victoria. Born in Ireland, he sailed as a lad for
Melbourne in 1852 and soon afterwards joined the police cadets, a force of about 250 men, recruited from all
classes. There was then great need for their services, especially at night, when Melbourne was badly lighted and the
streets swarmed with criminals from Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. After months of hard drilling, he
was drafted with some of his companions to Ballarat.
John Sadleir wrote a book called,
(Sadleir, J., “Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer” (1913).
Page 82 of 105
Justice Frederick W. Dickson
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death:
Description
Players History:
Justice Frederick W. Dickson was born in Melbourne on July 1st 1859.
He was the second son of Sir James R. Dickson, who was a prominent figure in Queensland politics, having been
Premier and the holder of other State portfolios.
He also subsequently moved into the wider Federal arena as Minister admitted to the Queensland Bar on August
1st 1882.
During the very lengthy period that he discharged the duties of Crown Prosecutor, on many occasions he acted as a
Judge of the Supreme Court and as a Judge of the District Court.
Appointed to the 1899 Police Commission along with:
Justice Dickson also acted as Industrial Court Judge, and one of his awards from that Bench became familiarly
known throughout Australia as the ‘Dickson Award’ for the sugar industry.
In the Maryborough City Council industrial dispute, Acting Judge Dickson extended an invitation to the parties to
approach each other in the spirit of conciliation with the aim of reaching an amicable settlement.
Page 83 of 105
Col. Justin Fox Greenlaw Foxton MHR
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Spoke ill of Urquhart Seated left in the photo.
Major-General R. Spencer Browne
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Spoke on behalf of Urquhart.
Spencer Browne married Violet Sutton, Rev John Sutton's daughter
Commander of the 1st batalion of the Qld Mounted Infantry.
Page 84 of 105
Tozer, Sir Horace
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Detective Thomas Henry Louis Seymour
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death: 18/04/1928
Description
Players History:
Maybe Father or Brother.
Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service
1864 – 1895 SEYMOUR David Thomson
Page 85 of 105
Sergeant John Shanahan
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Daughter Ena.
Joined the force in 1886 and resigned in 1901
Promoted to senior constable in 1896
Detective Sergeant 1897
Sergeant 1898
Promoted to Senior Seargeant on the 25/12/1900
1st of February 1901 he retired.
Alexander Douglas Douglas
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Police Commis
Death:
Description
Players History:
Inspector of Police in Queensland.
Lieutenant, unattached appointed 11 May 1885; Second Class Inspector of Police, appointed 5 December 1884.
Inspector of Brands - Normanton - app. 30 June 1888. Chief Inspector Police 1 July 1900. (Information from
Queensland Blue Books 1890 and 1900)
Page 86 of 105
Police magistrate Philip Pinnock
Age
0
Birth:
3/06/1826
Involved In:
Gatton/Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Sheriff of Queensland. Police Magistrate
Elizabeth Selby
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 87 of 105
Edith May Cook
Age
0
Birth: 26/10/1878
Involved In:
Oxley
Death: 27/12/1896
Description
Players History:
Died 27/12/1896
7th daughter of George and Annie (Jackman) Cook.
Thursday 31 December 1896, Notice inserted.
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3642752?searchTerm=edith+may+cook
Rev. Father Henry Brun
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Gatton
Death:
Description
Players History:
The Catholic
priest Fr Henry Brun first opened a school at
Redbank in 1865.
Page 88 of 105
Mr. Thomas Bridges, M.L.A.
Age
0
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
M.L.A. For Nundah
David Thompson Seymour
Age
0
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
David Thompson Seymour was the first Queensland Commissioner of Police. He was born 5 November 1832 at
Ballymore Castle, County Galway, Ireland. Educated at Ennis College, he entered the Army in 1856 and in 1860 he
was commissioned to bring out ot Sydney a draft of men form the 12th and 40th regiments. David Seymour
remained in New South Wales until 1861 when he was sent to Queensland with a detachment for the 12th
regiment. Soon after Seymour was offered and accepted the post of aide-de-camp and private secretary to the
Governor, Sir George Bowen. On the 1st January 1863 he was appointed Commissioner of Police. He held this
office until 1895. David Seymour died in London in 1916.
William Anthony Brown the first sherrif of Queensland was his father in law.
Page 89 of 105
Thomas George Bailey
Age
15
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Thomas George Bailey, aged 15, residing with his father at Deep Gully, deposed that he slept at his father’s house
on Boxing Night. He arose at 6 o’clock the following morning, and got a horse and rode into Gatton, passing
Moran’s sliprails at half past 7 o’clock. He noticed the sliprails all up, and also saw wheel tracks turning off into
the paddock. He did not look to see if there were other tracks. He met no one on the way.
Rev. W. E. Whale
Age
0
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
MRS. W. WHALE,
Widow of the late Rev. W. Whale,for many years
pastor of the City Tabernacle Baptist Church, who
will attain her 90th birthday. Friday. 4th March
1932
Players History:
For many years pastor of the City Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Page 90 of 105
Rev. C. E. James
Age
0
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Alfred Robinson
Age
0
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
A reporter on the "Queensland Times," was the first reporter on the scene he came to Gatton on the same train as
Dr. Von Lossberg.
Page 91 of 105
Samuel Lloyd
Age
0
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Retired Inspector
Chadwick
Age
0
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 92 of 105
Mr. Andrew S Smith
Age
0
Birth:
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
1929
Players History:
Storekeeper
Joseph Jordan
Age
0
Birth:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death:
Description
Players History:
Page 93 of 105
Harry Stockdale
Age
0
Birth:
1/01/1841
Classification:
Involved In:
Oxley
Death: 30/01/1919
Description
Players History:
Harry Stockdale, born in Yorkshire, England was an explorer, artist, print maker and writer active in Australia from
ca. 1860-1885
Sketcher, collector, explorer and horseman, was born in Croft, near Darlington, Yorkshire, and came to South
Australia in the 1860s to join his uncle Edward Stockdale at Lake Hawden Station. Through the racing and steeplechasing interests he developed at Hawden he became acquainted with Adam Lindsay Gordon and made several
sketches of the poet. Gordon's portrait 'from life', drawn in 1863, was later issued as a lithograph along with other
Stockdale sketches, including Type of Overlander or Old Time Journey Horse Now Extinct, which were possibly
lithographed by the Photoline Printing Company of 515 George Street, Sydney, the firm that issued Stockdale's
Racing at the Last Fence (1865) showing Gordon on Cadger and Stockdale on Zetland taking a hurdle side-by-side.
A caricature, See our Conquering Hero Comes, depicting Gordon on Cadger is probably also by Stockdale (who
finished the race a close second). Another sketch, Ride after Wild Horses with A. L. Gordon and Tom Hales (a
famous jockey), is bound with Stockdale's manuscript notes on Gordon (ML A739). Stockdale had a lifelong
interest in racing and finally had his own stable.
An undated collection of very competent sketches by Stockdale (ML A1578) includes drawings of an emu, a
kookaburra, Hawk's Bill Turtle and a wombat, the last annotated by Stockdale: 'De Rougemont says this creature
flies/ His readers say De Rougemont lies'. A number of sketches of Aborigines, their implements and weapons,
were apparently conceived as illustrations to a proposed publication on the Aboriginal people of Australia, the text
of which partly exists in manuscript form (ML A1579), though never published. According to his obituary
Stockdale, 'an exceedingly clever draftsman, made innumerable black and white drawings to illustrate this work,
but his health gradually failed, and he was unable to see his great work completed.' He contributed articles on
Aborigines (and other subjects) to various periodicals, especially the Town and Country Journal and the Evening
News and illustrated some.
Stockdale amassed a large collection of Aboriginal artefacts during his travels into the interior, particularly on his
1884-85 and 1885-86 expeditions through the then unexplored Kimberley region of WA. These trips, he stated, had
been made entirely at his own expense, the first costing him in excess of £3,000. In 1891 he travelled to Port
Essington and the Alligator River in the Northern Territory. Bush Sketches with Pen and Pencil by Harry Stockdale
(ML), a lithograph compiled from twelve small sketches apparently drawn on the 1891 Alligator River expedition,
includes N.A. Aborigine (Port Darwin) in Corrobborree [sic] Costume, Creek on the Alligator Plains, Alligator
River Native N.A. and Types of Australian Kangaroo.
Stockdale died at his residence, Linacre, at Randwick (a Sydney suburb with a famous racecourse) on 30 January
1919. His collections of artefacts were subsequently sold to Sir William Dixson and to an unknown European
museum.
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Thomas Brassey
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Thomas Brassey (1805-1870). He trained as a land surveyor, eventually branching out into railway construction. In
time he became a renowned railway engineer, constructing railway lines throughout the world.
His biographer wrote:
Mr. Brassey was born November 7, 1805, at Buerton, in the parish of Aldford, in Cheshire. He was the son of John
and Elizabeth Brassey of that parish. His family was an ancient one, his ancestors having come over with William
the Conqueror. For nearly six centuries they resided at Bulkeley near Malpas, in Cheshire, where they possessed a
small landed property of three or four hundred acres, which is still in the family ... The time when they moved to
Buerton is uncertain; but they must have resided there for more than two centuries, as is proved by certain
documents which are dated in the year 1663.
(Helps, Life and Labours of Mr. Brassey, 2nd Edition, London, 1872, pp.20,21)
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Mayor John Murphy
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1/03/1883
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John Murphy was born on the 25th September 1820 in County Cork, Ireland to Daniel Jervois Murphy and his
wife, Susan (nee Godson). He arrived in Ipswich in 1852 and became a Storekeeper and Commission Agent. In
1862 John married Hannah Julia (nee Smith) and they had six children, Aileen, Ernest John, Edward, Mary
Constance, Richard Henry and George Jervois, all born in Queensland.
He was the first Mayor of Ipswich and was elected to Office on 12th April 1860 and held Office on five occasions.
Mayoral Terms of Office until 1936 were for twelve months only, thereafter, elections were held every three years.
He was also a Police Magistrate in Goondiwindi and Roma. During his lifetime he held a variety of positions such
as Lawyer’s Clerk and Storekeeper’s Assistant at Muswellbrook, New South Wales. He served as Mayor and
Alderman from 19th April 1860 to 2nd April 1862; 15th February 1865 to 27th January 1868. John Murphy died
on the 1st March 1883 and is buried in the Ipswich Cemetery.
Dr Richard Rendle
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Murphy Family
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Mr. W. D. Armstrong, M.L.A
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W. F. S. KEY
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W. F. S. KEY, 86, DEAD
Mr. W. F. S. Key, 86. who died at the weekend, was the eldest son of the late Mr. P. S. Key, of the London Stock
Exchange. He came to Queensland 65 years ago, and joined the public service as record clerk in the Police
Commissioner's office, and was secretary of the noted Gatton murder inquiry. He was a private secretary to the then
Home Secretary.
John Campbell
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J. Logan
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Mr. William Henry Ryder I.S.O
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Mr. William Henry Ryder, Under-Secretary of the Queensland Home Department, was born in Prince Edward
Island, Canada, in 1843. He arrived in Victoria in 1851, and in 1861 entered upon newspaper work in Queensland.
Next year he joined the staff of the Government Printing Office; he became chief clerk of the Immigration Office,
1877; chief clerk Colonial Secretary's Department, 1880; Assistant Under Colonial Secretary, 1895; and his present
office in 1896.
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Mr. A. H. Barlow
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Major W.G Cahill C.M.G
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Father Richard D. Walsh
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Gatton 1902-1904
Thomas George Bridges
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Rev James Vincent Cahill
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Gatton, Ipswich, Yeronga, Kangaroo Point, etc, Qld
Gatton 1939-1979
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Pope St. Pius X
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_X
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Father Patrick Fouhy
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Parish Priest in Laidley for 36 years. Died age about 70
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Dr. A.W Orr M.D., B.Ch
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Government Analyst
Specialist in Diseases of Eye, Ear, and Throat.
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Beatrice McNeill
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Taken from The Brisbane Courier 16 Sep 1921
The marriage of Mr. Ernest Jackson (late of the A.I.F., and eldest son of Mr. J. Jackson, Fordsdale) to Miss
Beatrice M'Neil (only daughter of Mr. W. M'Neil, Yeulba) was celebrated at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church,
Gatton, on September 8. The church had been prettily decorated by friends of the bride.
The Rev. D. Walsh officiated. Miss Heenan presided at the organ, and Miss Mollie Carew rendered a vocal solo.
As the bride entered the church the Children of Mary formed a guard of honour, and the president (Miss Selby)
arrayed the bride in the cloak of the godality, which she wore during the ceremony. The bride, who was given away
by her father, wore a dainty gown of white satin, with overdress of georgette. Her court train of white satin was
lined with pale pink georgette, and her veil was arranged in mob cap style with posies of orange blossoms and pink
flowers. She carried a sheaf of arum lilies, which, with a gold bangle, were gifts from the bridegroom.
Miss Eva Meehan (bridesmaid) was frocked in pink, and Miss Madge Jackson (bridesmaid") in blue georgette.
Both carried bouquets of pink flowers, which, with gold brooches, were gifts from the bridegroom. Two small
nieces of the bridegroom (Misses Grace and Lilian Hallas) were also included in the bridal party. They were
dressed in pink and blue, and carried shepherd's crooks with posies of sweet peas attached. Mr. J. Jackson carried
out the duties of best man, and Mr. J. M'Neil those of groomsman. At the conclusion of the ceremony the guests
were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Murphy sen. at the Royal Hotel, the wedding cake being made and presented by
Mrs. P. J. Murphy.
The numerous presents included a gift from the Children of Mary, a leather suit case from the Grantham
footballers, and a complete set of kitchen utensils from Grantham residents. Upon leaving for Tweci Heads the
bride wore a tailored costume of .... with black fox furs, and a small grey hat with Oriental trimming.
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Captain Henry Holland
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Captain Henry Holland of the ship Wansfell
WANSFELL OF LIVERPOOL, HENRY HOLLAND, MASTER, BURTHEN 718 TONS
FROM THE PORT OF MORETON BAY TO SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, 29TH MAY 1865
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