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| Kate (Catherine) GOOD (1825 - 1917) |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) ATKINSON (1860 - 1912) Henry John ATKINSON (1864 - 1934) Robert James ATKINSON (1869 - 1939) Thomas Joseph Good ATKINSON (1869 - 1930) |
Kate (Catherine) GOOD (1825 - 1917) + James ATKINSON (1824 - 1899) |
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| b. 12 Feb 1825 |
| m. 20 Mar 1860 James ATKINSON (1824 - 1899) |
| d. 14 Mar 1917 aged 92 |
| Children (4): |
| Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) ATKINSON (1860 - 1912) |
| Henry John ATKINSON (1864 - 1934) |
| Robert James ATKINSON (1869 - 1939) |
| Thomas Joseph Good ATKINSON (1869 - 1930) |
| Events in Kate (Catherine) GOOD (1825 - 1917)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 12 Feb 1825 | Kate (Catherine) GOOD was born | ||||
| 20 Mar 1860 | 35 | Married James ATKINSON (aged 35) | |||
| 24 Dec 1860 | 35 | Birth of daughter Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) ATKINSON | |||
| 09 Jul 1864 | 39 | Birth of son Henry John ATKINSON | |||
| 1869 | 44 | Birth of son Robert James ATKINSON | Queensland, Australia | 1870/O000056 & 1869/C000134 | |
| 02 Aug 1869 | 44 | Birth of son Thomas Joseph Good ATKINSON | Queensland, Australia | 1869/C000135 | |
| 19 Apr 1899 | 74 | Death of husband James ATKINSON (aged 74) | |||
| 16 Dec 1912 | 87 | Death of daughter Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) ATKINSON (aged 51) | Queensland, Australia | 1912/c004661 | |
| 14 Mar 1917 | 92 | Kate (Catherine) GOOD died | |||
| Personal Notes: |
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Burried at Gunnawarra.
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/heritage/index.cgi?place=600544&back=1 Gunnawarra is a pastoral property first occupied by Europeans in 1865 and was an outlying part of the Valley of Lagoons run on the Upper Burdekin River, established in 1863. Ludwig Leichhardt discovered and named the Valley of Lagoons in 1845. George Dalrymple was appointed the first Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Kennedy district in 1861. He had arrived in Australia in the late 1850s, hoping to take up land on the Darling Downs. However this proved unsuccessful and he travelled north. He chose a well-watered block in the Valley of Lagoons and set up a partnership with brothers Arthur and Walter Scott and Robert Herbert in 1863. In 1864 Dalrymple and Arthur Scott travelled to the area and blazed a trail from what was to be the port of Cardwell to the Valley of Lagoons. The Scott brothers ran the property and soon afterwards Dalrymple relinquished his interest in the run to enter politics. Gunnawarra was originally a run of 100 square miles and was occupied from 10 April 1865. Following the Pastoral Leases Act of 1869, the run was consolidated and included the blocks of Gunnawarra, Barcoo 1, 2 and 3, Froyle, Tempe, Tempe North, Tempe West, Forrest and Borderland. It then covered an area of 555 square miles and was leased by the partnership of Dangar, Bell, Bell and Ewan. Other outlying blocks of the Valley of Lagoons were formed as the stations of Cashmere and Greenvale. In 1878 the station appeared in the Post Office Directory as 'Gunniawarra', said to mean 'little house'. Later the name was amended to Gunna-Warra and then Gunnawarra in 1890. The first buildings erected at Gunnawarra were of slab construction and included a saddle shed and adjoining quarters. The earliest section of the homestead building was constructed in 1878 and is located on Bell's Creek, a tributary of the Herbert River. Jack Broad, who also built Kirrama homestead, constructed it of slabs with locally cut cypress pine for the uprights and rafters; stringy bark was carted from over twenty miles away for the shingles and hand adzed slabs. The floor was of rammed antbed. Gunnawarra was divided into two sections following the Crown Lands Act of 1884, becoming Gunnawarra and Forrest. James Ewan purchased Gunnawarra at auction in September 1887. He held it until his death over twenty years later, when it passed to his wife and trustees. On 9 March 1904 it was sold to a partnership of the three Atkinson brothers, Henry John Atkinson of Greenvale, Robert James Atkinson of Cashmere and Thomas Joseph Good Atkinson of Kangaroo Hills. In 1862 their parents, James and Kate Atkinson, were part of a small group of prospective settlers who arrived in the area. They had previous pastoral experience in Victoria and took up land at Mount Surprise in partnership with Ezra Firth. After a few years, the partnership was dissolved and in 1870 Atkinson took up Farnham station at the site of Ingham. In 1880 he purchased Wairuna and about 5000 acres from the Valley of Lagoons as Abergowrie. Thomas Atkinson married in 1901 and in 1904 brought his wife, Jessie Glennie Godschall, known as Glen, and their baby daughter to live at Gunnawarra. In 1908 they added a bedroom wing of tongue and groove cedar to the house and clad the shingled roof with corrugated iron. In 1913, the buildings of the property were reported to be a house, kitchen, outbuildings, stockyard, horse and milking yards, assessed at £125 in value. Parts of Gunnawarra were resumed for grazing selections in 1914. In 1922, the brothers' partnership was dissolved and in 1924 the lease for Gunnawarra was transferred into the name of Thomas Atkinson alone. In 1929, when the lease expired, various parties made enquiries to the Lands Department regarding further resumptions for selection. An inspection was made in 1930 and on the recommendation of the Beef Cattle Commission the lease was extended on the grounds that previous resumptions had failed and been sold back to the Atkinson family by the selectors. The area covered by the Gunnawarra lease was then 245 square miles. In 1930, the Gunnawarra Pastoral Company held numerous leases and was composed of Thomas Atkinson, his wife and other family members. After he died on 14 June of that year, Glen Atkinson ran Gunnawarra. Picnic races had been held at Gunnawarra in Ewan's time, but were discontinued when he died. In 1918 R.L. Atkinson, a nephew, decided to form a race club using the old course, about 5 miles from the homestead. Several surrounding stations agreed to participate and a Gunnawarra Picnic Hack Race Meeting was registered for New Year's Day, 1919 followed by a ball at the homestead. After a few years of running this event annually, a concrete slab was laid down at the racetrack for the purpose of dancing as most participants camped at the course. The large room added to the homestead in 1928 is said to have also been used as a ballroom for these races. The races were discontinued after Tom Atkinson's death in June 1930. In 1933 a small house was constructed close to the lagoon some 3 kilometres north of the homestead complex. It was built using traditional techniques and local materials by local aboriginal people and station hands. It was intended for use by senior station employees such as the head stockman and later the bookkeeper. In 1938, 324 acres of Gunnawarra were resumed for the highway, leaving 224 square miles. Various alterations to the homestead were undertaken in the 1950s and 60s, including the lining of the interior with masonite, the replacement of verandah boards, the addition of concrete floors and inserting a skylight in the roof. New structures have also been added and a new ranch style homestead, a swimming pool and tennis court were probably also constructed in this period. The homestead took farm-stay guests in the 1980s, but has not been used for this purpose for some years. Gunnawarra continues as a working cattle property and is still owned by members of the Atkinson family. |