Map of Ireland by F. Nichols. From Sean O'Faolain, The Story of Ireland (London: W. Collins, 1943) 8

Some of the Irish Influence in the Gympie Region

by | Mar 19, 2024 | Pioneer families, Women

John Flood

John Flood

John Flood

John Flood

When it comes to chatting about the Irish influence in Gympie or the Wide Bay region, one of the first names that comes to some people in the know, is John Flood. And, the Gympie family History Society have several stories on this particular individual,

The Lynch family

Irish immigrant Cornelius Lynch selected land near Gympie in 1872 and married Irish immigrant Ellen Flynn in 1879.  But their story develops along with their five daughters before the first of his seven sons. The daughters becoming famous in and out of the timber circles known as the Lynch Sisters.

Nell, Mary, Kate and Rose Lynch

Nell, Mary, Kate and Rose Lynch

Nell, Mary, Kate and Rose Lynch

Johanna McMahon in front of her home "Rossmore"

Johanna McMahon in front of her home “Rossmore”

Johanna McMahon in front of her home “Rossmore”

Johanna McMahon

How many of us can say we have lived in one home for more than half a century. Read the story of Irish lass Johanna McMahon who recently celebrated her 90th birthday at “Rossmore”, on Jubilee Street in Monkland, the home she has lived in for seventy years.

M Collisson

M Collisson became a well known farmer and dairyman in the Tuckekoi area.

Image of published letter to the editor of Gympie times from M Collisson, 1881

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GYMPIE TIMES.
Dear Sir, — From my personal knowledge of you I am satisfied that you are incapable of consciously circulating any lie to the prejudice of any section of the Irish people, and yet both you and your contemporary have inadvertently done so by transcribing from the English papers a statement to the effect,…

Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette, Wednesday 30/03/1881, page 3

Arthur Webb

In 1899, Mr Arthur Webb, of the widely known Gympie firm of Barns and Webb, Mining Secretaries wrote letters describing his pleasure trip to Great Britain and Ireland.  His readable account was published in the local paper.

 
FROM GYMPIE TO LIMERICK
…This was the vessel’s maiden trip from the colonies to London…She has all the latest and best improvements for the comfort and safety of passengers, triple expansion engines working twin screws. There is one thing about her I like, i.e., she has been carefully subdivided into water-tight compartments; if through collision or accident any two compartments were thrown open to the sea she would still float; so by reason of all these water-tight compartments she is considered a huge lifeboat …
 
Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette, Saturday 23/12/1899, page 11

Sources

compiled by Brett Watson,
5:34 AM 15/03/2024

If you are thinking of starting, or you are doing your family tree, and have any kin of Irish descent whom have grown up in the Gympie area, as far back 1867, contact the Gympie Family History Society, for your investigation or a members research packet for you upon request to our research officer.

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