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Download the nomination form and return it to: Archive Photo'sCronin Children
Ellen Cronin (FINLAY) 17.12.1885 MAIL RUN TO BOOROOLA 1939
WRAY FINLAY
Catherine Wrayby Mary Anderson (Nee Finlay) When my great grandmother Catherine Wray waded ashore at Magnetic Island little did she know that within a few years she would marry another Irish immigrant and together they would travel west across Australia heading for Borroloola to set up a business. "Kate" as Catherine was known, left her home town in Country Cavan and travelled to Australia in 1880 on a sailing ship the "Scottish Hero". She obtained work at Ravenswood as a house maid for the local magistrate and his family. There she met John James Cronin from Kanturk, County Cork, who was a gold miner at Ravenswood they were married there in 1883. They loaded their wagon with supplies and set off, as luck would have it they didn't make it to Borroloola as planned. They became bogged in the Georgina River. Her husband John had already been with his hawkers van out to the Georgina River. Their fist child Ellen was born at Rocklands Station in December 1884 so they decided to stay, there was no town of Camooweal then. They decided this was a good place to set up a store. Johns father had been a storekeeper in Kanturk so he was familiar with this type of business. By the following year this little settlement had been declared a town. Ellen Frances Cronin, my grandmother was born in the town of Camooweal. On her birth certificate it shows she was born in December 1885 and that her sister had died by then. It is strange how the parents chose to name their second daughter after their first child who had died. John and Kate had three girls and two boys. They were Ellen Frances who married A.H Finlay, Catherine married Henry Martel and Elizabeth married Michael Farrell. Thomas John married Rose Seary and one boy became lost at Morestone as a child. Kate's husband died in December 1895 at Camooweal. His mother wrote to Kate asking her to send the children back to Ireland to be educated but Kate firmly refused. There were several people who leased the store over the years, one of whom was Len Pedwell. Kate had sent her son Thomas to Barry and Roberts in Brisbane to learn the trade. He was running the business when I was going to school in the fifties. Kate built the "Post Office Hotel" as it is now known. The first licensee was Kate then Alfred Levi Vernon in 1906. Others were Storey 1919, Riley 1920, Elizabeth Farrell 1935, her daughter, A.H Finlay 1939, Frank Marin 1945, T.J Cronin 1949, Jean Martin, L Conlan. Mrs Conlan built the new hotel on the same site. In 1903 Kate Cronin married Alfred Levi Vernon in later years they retired to Bowen where they are buried in the Bowen Cemetery. Ellen Frances and Arthur Finlay had four boys - Arthur "Fin" Nathan "George", Wray and Tom they were raised on Thortonia Station as Arthur senior and Mr Synott were partners. In 1939 Arthur sold his share to Mr Synott and the family moved to Camooweal. Arthur senior died in the late fifties in the Townsville Hospital and is buried there. His wife Ellen died while living in Brisbane with her daughter in law and is buried in the Aspley Lawn Cemetery. We were holidaying in Brisbane at the time and visited her in the nursing home a few days before she passed away in the 1970's. Drover's Camp Festival Photograph Competition 2008
Prizes1st Prize - $25.00 & Certificate Download the nomination form and return it to: National Finals Bronco Branding Competition23rd & 24th August 2008Beginner Branding Competition Novice Branding Competition - Trophy: Peter Clauson Memorial Perpetual donated by Camooweal Butchery & Camooweal Agencies Singles Branding Competition Doubles Branding Competition Town V Town Feature event Carmel's Best presented entry - Any event $250 TROPHIES CRAFTED BY JAYE HALL & CARMEL WILLIAMS QUEENSLAND BRONCO BRANDING COMMITTEE RULES APPLY Download the nomination form and return it to: RUM RAFFLE
Books for SaleKeep the Branding Iron Hot - Bobbie Buchanan - $$29.95 + postage Childrens BooksOutback Countout - Norah Kersh - $15.00 + postage LettersDear Liz, Please find enclosed a photo of three children they are left to right Graham, Raynor and Dawn Haseman. Today Ray lives at Nerang and Dawn at Main Beach Gold Coast. Ray is the young boy who was run over by an army truck in 1943, along the Barkly Highway, and lost a foot. This photo was taken in 1943 about 28 miles along the Barkly Highway. The two drovers are unknown, but note they are droving sheep. Suspect the sheep were off Wooroona Station on their way to Mount Isa for human consumption. I am hoping someone can identify the drovers. Edna Jessop didn't know them, suggested they may have come from the east (Winton or Longreach) where there were sheep drovers. Also I am after a book called "You cant make it rain" by ? Fitzgerald - about North Australian Pastrol Company if any one has a copy they want to sell please let me know and name their price.
I am trying to track down a piece of local history. The unit history of the US forces state that they transported cattle on their trucks to the meat works at Mount Isa form cattle stations. Did anyone ever see cattle on the back of army trucks (Australian or American) during the war years in any part of Australia? Thanks CALLING ALL BRAND OWNERSRay Fryer has donated two beautiful sawn wood slabs. We would like to offer people the opportunity to have their brand (or if you have an old brand from your family) burnt onto a slab for permanent display in the memorial. $50.00 per brand will be charged with the proceeds going towards running expenses for the Drover's Camp. Bring your brands to the festival in August and leave your mark on the Drover's Camp! The Drover's Ball 2008The Camooweal Town Hall DROVERS CAMP ASSOCIATION INC.Constitution Extracts 7(1) ADMISSION AND REJECTION OF MEMBERSAt the meeting of the management committee after the receipt of any application and the fee applicable for any class of membership, such application shall be considered by the management committee, who shall there upon determine upon the admission or rejection of the applicant. MEMBERSHIP OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE12.(1) The management committee of the association shall consist of a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary all of whom shall be members of the association, and such number of other members as the members of the management committee may from time to time elect or appoint. 12(2) At the first annual general meeting following incorporation of the association, and every second annual general meeting thereafter, all members of the management committee for the time being shall retire from office but shall be eligible upon nomination for reelection. 12(3) The election of officers and other members of the management committee shall take place in the following manner:
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