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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

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

Biographical notes,

  • F896
  • Item
  • [19--]?

Handwitten biographical notes sent to A.J. McConnel on William Butler by his son Roy Butler. Accompanied by note (1 l.) by A.B. White.

Butler, Roy

Letters, 1931-1932 : Brisbane, to Arthur J. McConnel.

  • F815
  • Item
  • 1931-1932.

Three letters to Arthur J. McConnel, 1931 Dec 23 and 1932 Jan 5 and subsequent undated, re his contributing recollections of early days on Cressbrook, Durundur and Dugandan Stations.

McKinnon, Thomas Firmin Mackay Jessie, 1878-1953

Letter, 1932 Dec 19 : Leura, to Arthur [J. McConnel].

  • F809
  • Item
  • 1932

Handwritten letter to Arthur J. McConnel re his father Henry Mort, his recollections of John McConnel and the early history of settlement in South East Queensland. Accompanied by handwritten notes from the Moreton Bay Courier 1846-1847.

Mort, Arthur

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.

Letter, 1973 Oct 9 : Sydney, to Mrs B. G. White.

  • F805
  • Item
  • 1973

Typescript, signed, on paper headed Queensland Newspapers Pty. Sydney. Accompanied by handwritten letter from Amy White (2 l.)
Letter to Mrs B.G. White, Buderim re her comments on a feature article in the Courier Mail on Toogoolawah.

Blaikie, George, 1915-1995

Jottings from my notebook

  • F801
  • Item
  • [1938]?

Ernest Jones arrived in Brisbane with his family on the 'Eastern Empire' in 1866. He describes early Brisbane, cane growing in South-East Queensland, growing cotton and fruit at Buderim, and growing bananas, coffee and citrus. Accompanied by handwritten notes on the jottings by A.B. White (5 l.), 1973.

Burnett, Ernest Jones, 1853-1940

How the Fitzroy was found: extracts of a journal, 1853

  • F8
  • Item
  • 1853

Typescript of extracts taken from original journal.
Extracts from a journal by Charles Archer, recounting the discovery of the Fitzroy River. Subtitled: 'Memoranda taken on a journey to the Dawson and some of its tributaries, April 1853.'

Archer, Charles, 1813-1862

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