TOCAH Stories

On Tuesday, the 5th inst., at the No. 1 Methodist Church, by the Rev. A. Hutchison, George Owen Martin Smith was married to Miss Tillie Robins, daughter of Mr. Thomas Robins.

Frank was born in 1869 to Archibald and Agnes Fraser, part of a large coal mining family in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

One of the best buildings in Mosman-street is undoubtedly that of Messrs. E. D. Miles and Co. which has recently been enlarged and improved to meet the growing requirements of the firm’s ever-expanding business.

A wedding which has been looked forward to with keen interest in the district was celebrated in the Methodist Church last Tuesday. Both parties were well and favourably known in the district. Mr. Spark, the bridegroom, has been in the employ of Mr. Chas. Thams for some years, is a son of Mr and Mrs. M. R. Spark, of Southport. The bride, Miss Elsie Logan, is the eldest daughter of Mr. R. J. Logan, of Cryna, who are amongst the best-known people of the district.

On Thursday afternoon, 29th May, at 5.30 P.M. a very pretty wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church, when Miss Heather May Dunwoodie, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs Tom Dunwoodie, was married to Mr. Geoffrey Smale of London. Mr. Frank Green officiated.

The marriage of Mr. Alfred Albert Rath, eldest son of Mr. Rath, Curtis Street, Bundaberg, and Miss Maggie Salome Kendall, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kendall, “Eden,” Branyan Road, Bundaberg, was celebrated at the residence of the bride’s parents, on Wednesday, 20th inst., by Rev. H. H. Nolan.

The 30-room homestead on Mundoolun Station, 12 miles from Beaudesert was destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of 19 August 1939. The homestead was built in 1915 at an estimated cost of £4,000 and was one of the oldest stations in Queensland. It overlooked a large lagoon which abounded with wild birds.

On 7 February 1927, James Liddle (aged 31) and his children Edna (10), Ronald (8) and Colin (3) were boating on the Condamine River with Annie ‘Nance’ Kocho (40, wife of Fred Kocho), Susanah Kocho (35, wife of Wilfred Kocho) and her children Vernon (12), Evelyn (10), William (9), and Robert (2) and her niece Patsy O’Shea (13). They were all Condamine locals except for Patsy who was from Sandgate.

The death occurred at Beaudesert Hospital on Monday of Mr. Charles Crum Fenton, only four hours after he had been admitted. Mr. Fenton had that morning been proceeding to his work at the railway pumping station on a rail trolley, when the rail motor, bound from Beaudesert to Brisbane, struck the machine on which Mr. Fenton was riding.

Advertisement from Queensland Pastoral Supplies, August 1939.

Hibiscus Stock Whips, from Queensland Pastoral Supplies, 1939.

Engines from Queensland Pastoral Supplies, August 1939.

Patrick Stephen Bishop, the oldest child of John and Hanora Bishop of ‘Deep Creek’ Maidenwell Queensland, was born on 26 December 1902.  His brother George was born in 1906 and his sister Mary in 1911.

Washing Machine from Queensland Pastoral Supplies Pty Ltd, Silent Salesman General Catalogue, August 1939.

Triumph Top Fire Stoves from Queensland Pastoral Supplies Pty Ltd, Silent Salesman General Catalogue, August 1939.

Hibiscus Wool Bale Fastener from Queensland Pastoral Supplies Pty Ltd, Silent Salesman General Catalogue, August 1939.

Bathroom equipment from Queensland Pastoral Supplies Pty Ltd, Silent Salesman General Catalogue, August 1939.

We (“Toowoomba Chronicle”) regret to record the death of another Queensland pioneer, Mr. Robert Watkins, having passed away on the 23rd of March, after a lingering illness, at the ripe age of 77 years.

Stuart Raymond John Bishop, known throughout his life as Ray, was born on the family property around midnight on 1 August 1920. 

Mary was born on 6 April 1869 just over 3 years after her parents Robert WATKINS and Ellen BURNS were married in Clifton. She had an older sister Ellen, and her parents went on to have more children.

A very widely known and highly-respected lady, Mrs Ellen WATKINS, passed away in Toowoomba, on March 24, in a private hospital.

When the Burnett River burst its banks, it reached a height of one hundred feet in Mundubbera and flooded two hundred miles inland.