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Bell Family Papers File Jimbour Station (Qld.)
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Jimbour House, 1959 to 2001

Photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles of Jimbour house, 1959 to 2001. Christmas card depicting Jimbour House, undated.

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Jimbour House, 1906 to 1992

Photocopies of facsimiles of Jimbour land titles, Bell family wills, receipts and disbursements, 1906 to 1992.

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Challacombe and Suttons of Jimbour

Challacombes of Jimbour and Suttor family information. Includes copies of correspondence, biographical information on James Challacombe, William Challacombe and George Suttor. [These are reproductions of photocopies and typed letters, which received severe water damage]

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'Notes of the recollections of James Fernival'

Handwritten notes of the recollections of James Fernival about Jimbour, Henry Dennis, Warabah, and various properties on the Darling Downs, 8 leaves, undated. Attached to handwritten notes is a newspaper cutting from The Queenslander, 7 Jan 1899, of a letter to the editor, ‘Jimbour History’ by Charles Dun, dated 27 Dec. Typescript copy of the handwritten notes of the 'Recollections of James Fernival' with handwritten note on first page ‘circ. 1908-9 in the possession of the late Hon. J.T. Bell’ , 6 leaves.

Fernival's recollections include: Henry Dennis, Thomas Bell, Jimbour Station, Ludwig Leichhardt, Joe King, Joshua Peter Bell, the various stations in the Darling Downs area and who owned them, Charles Coxen, Warraba ("W.H. Warraba", died in 1893), Bungaree, Billy Crow, George Goggs, and others.

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Jimbour race horses

Peeps into Dalby’s Glorious Racing Past: 1859-1959, Dalby Benefit Race Club, ca. 1959. Newspaper cutting on Queensland Thoroughbreds from The Queenslander, 6 Feb 1936.

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Land titles

Photocopies and thermal paper copies of land titles associated with Jimbour and letter from 2002.

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Access copy to 'Recollections of the Darling Downs - 45 years ago'

‘Recollections of the Darling Downs – 45 years ago’ by FRA Rickards, 3 typed copies of a letter from FRA Rickards to JT Bell, with cover note, 2 Nov 1909. Joshua Thomas Bell asked that F.R.A. Rickards write to him with his recollections of the Darlings Downs. The letter, only just over a foolscap page of typescript, from Rickards mentions various towns, farming stations, and people of the area. There are three typescript copies of the letter with the a typescript page attached to each explaining how Rickards wrote to Bell.

Rickards, F. R. A.

Correspondence, Margaret Miller Bell, from 1898 to 1912

Handwritten letters, most are addressed to 'My dear Collie' and signed 'your affectionate Mother, Margaret M. Bell'. There are letters from: Oswald M. Bell; a letter to Colin b. P. Bell of 'Westlands' from Ruthing & Jensen Solicitors; letter to J.F. Small & Sons signed by Margaret M. Bell and Colin B. P. Bell to sell all the effects at Jimbour House.

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