Some of the Irish Influence in the Gympie Region

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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,

Here is one from the State Library Collection,
https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections/family-history/convict-queenslanders/john-flood-convict-queenslander

The LYNCH family.
Irish immigrants Cornelius Lynch and Ellen Flynn, Cornelius selected land near Gympie in 1872 and the couple married 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.

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.
https://www.gfhs.com.au/johanna-mcmahon-70-years-in-a-gympie-home/

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But, here are links to two more Gympie Times articles regarding some local Irish characters. The first who became a well known farmer and dairyman in the Tuckekoi area.

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 (Qld. : 1868 – 1919), Wednesday 30 March 1881, page 3
Misconceptions and Misrepresentations corrected ;
read more here… or click the image
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169154480?searchTerm=irish%20team%20in%20gympie

and more of a light hearted one, is a series of letters from “Mr. Arthur Webb, of the widely known Gympie firm of Barns and Webb, Mining Secretaries, who left Gympie in March last on a pleasure trip to Great Britain and Ireland, has courteously sent us the following readable account of his rambles.”

Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette (Qld. : 1868 – 1919), Saturday 23 December 1899, page 11
FROM GYMPIE TO LIMERICK
read more here… or click the image
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/171520084?searchTerm=irish%20team%20in%20gympie

So, 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.

check out our website for details on how to contact us or opening times, or send us an email to research@gfhs.com.au

compiled by Brett Watson,
5:34 AM 15/03/2024
using the resources :
Gympie Family History Society, Name Index Lists.
Gympie Family History Society, Cemetery Index Lists.
Gympie Family History Society, Gympie Times references.
and more

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