Mackayâs pioneers featured in early account of our history An excerpt from The History of Queensland, it s People and Industries, compiled by Matthew Joseph Fox. Picture: Greenmount Homestead.
News Vicky Bowden, Greenmount Homestead 10th Jun 2021 5:00 AM
When I was a child growing up in the early â70s, I remember the door-to-door salesmen who used to come around trying to sell encyclopedias â in particular, the Encyclopedia Britannica. Often this was offered on a subscription basis â taking one volume a month over a period of time â often a couple of years.
That particular publication has been around in various forms since 1768; now in its 15th edition as an online only version.
Remembering Gloria, caretaker of Greenmount s history
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Bloomsbury:
Dawn Service, 5.30am, Bloomsbury Soldier‘s Hall, Doughertys Road, Bloomsbury
Calen/St Helens: Dawn Service, 5.20am and another service at 11am, Calen Memorial Hall, McIntyre Street
Eton: Dawn Service, 5am, Langford Park, Telegraph Street, Eton
Farleigh: Dawn Service, 5.30am Cenotaph, Farleigh Sugar Mill Grounds, Armstrong Street, Farleigh
Finch Hatton: Dawn Service, 4.28am and another evening service at 6.15pm, Finch Hatton Cenotaph, Anzac Parade, Finch Hatton
Gargett: Morning Service, 8am, Gargett War Memorial, opposite the Gargett Pub, Gargett Septimus Rd and Jim Moule Street, Gargett
Greenmount Homestead: Dawn Service, 6.40am, Greenmount Homestead, Greenmount Road, Greenmount
Hay Point/ Half Tide Beach: Dawn Service, 5.30am, ‘The Shack’, Half Tide Esplanade
History: Sheep, drought, gunfire and a murder Cecilia Cissy Thompson, nee Cook, with her three children to Frank Snellgrove Thompson. Pictures: Contributed, Greenmount Homestead
People and Places Vicky Bowden, Greenmount Homestead 18th Mar 2021 5:00 AM
Albert Cook’s mother Elizabeth started her family in 1861 with Florence; a child was born roughly every two years thereafter, until the birth of her eighth and last child Ethel in 1878.
Of the eight children born to Elizabeth, six survived into adulthood.
Cecilia, or “Cissy” as she was known by her family, was child number five, born in 1871 with the given name of Cecilia Adelaide Maude Cook.