The Binnie family, especially William Binnie, and his father Archibald Binnie, were actively engaged in the development of the Queensland coal industry for much of the twentieth century. While the family interests were primarily centred in the Ipswich region, William Binnie also played a central role in the development of the Central Queensland coal fields. He was the Secretary of the West Moreton Colliery Owners Association in 1906 and Manager of the Blackheath Colliery in 1908. By the 1960s W. Binnie with R. Binnie, A. Binnie, M.D. Binnie were the directors of United Collieries Pty. Ltd.

One of Australia's famous literary and artistic families founded by William à Beckett and Emma Mills (1838-1906).

The Giles family were pioneers in the Northern Territory and managed stations there, notably Elsey Station which was used as the setting for We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn. Harold Stanage Giles (1890-1960) married Lilian Doris Dunlop in 1924. Giles was the manager of Elsey Station (home of Mrs Aeneas Gunn) from 1928 to the 1954 (excluding the years 1946-1950). He also managed Hodgson Station.

Walter Cunningham Hume (1839–1921),a surveyor, migrated to Queensland from England in 1962. He was joined by his widowed mother and four siblings. He married Anna Kate “Katie” Fowler in Brisbane, Australia in 1866. Three of the eight children of Walter and Katie Hume survived - Ethel Stansfielt Hume, Bertram Cunningham Hume and Albert Steward Hume. During their time in Australia, the Hume's lived in Drayton, Stanthorpe, Toowoomba and Brisbane. After Walter Hume retired in 1901 the family returned to England and travelled the world. Walter Hume spent almost 40 years surveying the Darling Downs region of Queensland. He was an active photographer in the pre-federation period of Australian history and continued to photograph family and events after retirement.

Taylor Family members: William Taylor, married Sarah Moore on 11 November 1851 in Leicester, England. Sarah Taylor, born in 1832? and died on 7 July 1905 at "Glencore", Merival Street, South Brisbane. William Taylor (born ca. 1839) was a school teacher at Belmont, Queensland. He died on 27 August 1910, and resided at Christie Street off Vulture Street, buried at Toowong Cemetery. William and Sarah Taylor arrived in Brisbane, Queensland on 22 February 1875.

Their children were all born in Leicester, England:
William (1851-1874);
Mark (1852 to 24 June 1917, died at Brisbane, married Ellen Wetherage James on 14 May 1877 in Brisbane, had a son Harold Vernon Taylor);
William (1856 to ?);
James (1858 to 1893);
John (1859 to 20 October 1902);
Mary (1861 to 24 July 1921, married 9 July 1878 at Pimpama);
Thomas (born ca. 1863, died on 10 Jun 1911 in Queensland);
Margaret (ca. 1866 - 1943, in 1887 married Robert Hamilton Gillies at Brisbane, had a son Robert Taylor Gillies on 18 January 1889;
Catherine (ca. 1868, died 10 June 1913 at Brisbane, married Alfred Wheeler);
Paul (born ca. 1870, died 28 August 1875 at Brisbane);
Wilberforce Lauterer Oldfield (1873-1943, joined the Australian Imperial Force at age 43 on 27 September 1916, died 30 March 1943).

Together with the Burns family, the Philp family established Burns Philp (properly Burns, Philp & Co, Limited), a major Australian shipping line and merchant that operated in the South Pacific. The family included Sir Robert Philp (1851-1922) and his first wife Jessie Bannister (nee Campbell). They had two sons and five daughters. After the death of Jessie Philp, Robert Philp married Wilhelmina Fraser (nee Munro).

The Chomleys were a Victorian-based family prominent in that state's political, judicial and literary life in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The McConnel family of Cressbrook and Durundur stations are descended from the pastoralist children of James McConnell (1762-1831) and Margaret Houldsworth (1778-1845) who migrated from Scotland and England to Queensland in the 1840s. Notable family members include David Cannon McConnel (1818-1885), who settled at Cressbrook in 1841, his brother John McConnel (1806-1899), who joined him in the Cressbrook enterprise from 1844 and operated Durundur station from 1851, and Ursula Hope McConnel (1888-1957), an anthropologist.