Storekeepers Thomas and
Elizabeth Alford named
both Drayton and Toowoomba.
Ballerina Carmel Wing
had an international career
before teaching in Toowoomba.
Michael Irwin was killed
by Mrs. Spillane when he staggered
into her fowl yard when drunk.
Christoph Donges, a German migrant,
established the Lake Farm
near the present USQ.
The elaborate vault of Raphael
and Maureen Coorey and their
sons Raphael, 8, and Ronald, 10.
Gilbert Eliott C.M.G., the first Speaker
of the Queensland Parliament, died
while visiting his son in Toowoomba.
Promising opera singer Ella
McGoldrick was tragically killed
in a fall from a cliff in Sydney.
‘Sam Fox’ (Robert Haild) may have
fought in the American Civil War,
but never with Custer.
George Downes worked on Gowrie
Station from the 1840s. His diary
tells much of early life on the Downs.
In 1925 Radio 4GR-Gold Radio
was issued Queensland’s
first commercial radio licence.
Ex-convict W H Groom: first
Mayor, first Federal Member
and a Queensland MLA.
John Handley established
Paradise Farm
near present USQ c.1860.
John Hills, an Eton Vale stockman,
was killed by Aborigines
in the frontier war of 1843.
Frederick Holberton established
a store on the corner of Ruthven
and Margaret Sts (Lincraft) in 1874.
The children of Katie and Walter Hume.
Katie’s published letters reveal the
social history of the Downs.
Jack McCafferty established a nationwide
coach company based in Toowoomba.
Shepherd Josiah Dent was the first
European settler in Toowoomba.
School inspector John Kilham lived
in a house named Tickhill
at the northern end of Hume Street.
Betros family tomb
with Celtic cross
and Arabic script
William Kenny, brother of Sister
Elizabeth Kenny, was General
Birdwood’s bodyguard on Gallipoli.
Canadian George Le Vaux served
with Garibaldi in Italy. He was
later headmaster at Pittsworth.
One of five men killed in a Toowoomba
Range train accident, 30 January 1913.
William Murphy served in the Crimean
War and in 1864 became first
Governor of the Toowoomba Gaol.
A fishy end!
Martin Roggenkamp, an early
photographer of Warwick,
Drayton and Toowoomba.
Henry Spiro, a Jewish storekeeper,
financed Queensland’s first
synagogue, built in Neil Street.
Tom Allen was a Queensland
State cricketer 1932 to 1940
and captain 1936.
Coachbuilder Thomas Trevethan's sons
Thomas and Walter built Queensland's
first motor car in Toowoomba in 1904.
Killed on 20 March 1944
in an RAAF plane crash,
Toowoomba airport.
A stonemason's grave.
In 1893 Australia's first appendectomy
was performed on Emma Webb on a
kitchen table in a Toowoomba bakery.
George Essex Evans,
founder of the Austral Festivals,
and national patriotic poet.
The Godsall family were prominent
builders and hoteliers and produced
three Mayors of Toowoomba.
Harry Andrews built many houses
(e.g. Redlands) designed by
architect Harry Marks.
Frederick Kretschmar was a
prominent conductor of brass
bands from the 1880s to WWI.
Queensland's first female Mayor.
