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McConnel Family Papers

  • UQFL89
  • Collection
  • 1844-1977

Durundur Station letterbooks and account book; autograph album; personal papers of John McConnel and Arthur John McConnel; legal and financial documents; surveyors' plans and parish maps (relating to family holdings in Burnett area); press clippings; breeding records; correspondence, miscellaneous papers, poetry, artwork.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions. Some photographs contain nudity. Women should be cautious as this resource includes some aspects of traditional Men's Business.

McConnel family

Diary, 1903-1907

  • F134
  • Item
  • 1903-1907.

Diary kept by Arthur J. Browne, Booral, Queensland, 1903-1907. Son of James Arthur Browne; written as a schoolboy.

Browne, Arthur J.

Recollections of a rambling life, 1897

  • F9
  • Item
  • 1897

Autobiography of Queensland pioneer and pastoralist Thomas Archer.
First published in 1897 in Yokohama, Japan by the 'Japan Gazette' for private circulation.
This transcript was copied by hand by William James Gall (1867-1938); it concludes as Archer departs for California.

Archer, Thomas, 1823-1905

Letters, 1933 : Toogoolawah, to A. J. McConnel.

  • F808
  • Item
  • 1933

Three handwritten letters from Ethel Butler to A.J. McConnel re her family history, the Murray Prior family and their early days in Queensland and New South Wales. The letters are dated 9 February, 8 March, and 14 March 1933.

Butler, Ethel N.

Papers, 1858-1988

  • F3352
  • Item
  • 1858-1988.

Photocopies of items from a scrapbook: photographs, letters, birth certificates, newspaper clippings, notes for a family history.
Also photocopies of typescript transcripts and handwritten letters from Mrs. H.G. (Annie Margaret) Wheeler (nee Laurie) to Rockhampton newspapers 'The Morning Bulletin' and 'The Capricornian', 19 Jun 1917-15 Nov 1917 (10 items). Bulk of material 1886-1920.

Laurie family

Letters (3) to Firmin McKinnon, 1931 12 Nov - 8 Dec

  • F1499
  • Item
  • 1931

Letters (3) 1931 12 Nov. -8 Dec. to Firmin McKinnon re: his historical articles, Alan McPherson and his pioneering at Mount Abundance. Discusses pioneering in this area, in some detail.

Timbury, F. R. V.

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