Montville Farmers for Fifty Years
Two much loved Montville citizens were Les and Dulcie Gomersall who lived along Western Avenue for 50 years.
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Hinterland Stories
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Find your own Frontier
Vale for Sydney Kirkby - Antarctic Surveyor, Explorer, Map Maker
Woof - Skene Family Photos
Robert Woof married Laura Skene on 26 April 1924 Robert and Laura Woof ran holiday flats at Queens Beach, Redcliffe in the 1960s Laura...
Flaxton Enlistments
WW1 FLAXTON ENLISTMENTS Slouch Hat with Emu feathers (Courtesy Australian War Memorial) Wilfred Bratton, Wilf enlisted in the First...
William Skene – A Blackall Range Pioneer Passes
Agnes and William Skene C. 1915 Mr. William Skene, of Maroochydore, collapsed and died by the side of his car a short distance from the...
When the tough get going – Maria and George Butt pioneers of Montville
Many families in the mid-1800’s migrated to Australia from England for various reasons. It could have been the prospect of making a...
Leonie Gittins 1949 to 2024
Leonie’s creativity, resilience and strength led her to become a leading member of a wide range of communities on the Sunshine Coast
The Wyer Family of Flaxton
This Wyer Family Story has been compiled partly as a genealogy and as a chronology of the early pioneering days. Bob Wyer was interviewed...
The Swain Family of Flaxton and Montville
By Gordon Plowman Leslie Garforth Swain, known by his friends and associates as Les, could look back on his lifetime of achievements with...
The Sunshine Coast Maestro of Music – Alfred Charles Short
Alfred Charles Short, nicknamed Shorty, was the iconic gentleman who serenaded the Blackall Range and the Sunshine Coast with his mouth...
The Skene Family of “Bon Accord”
Lots of Cousins! This is a brief history of the Skene family who settled at “Bon Accord” in Flaxton, just of the first 3 generations,...
The Short Families of Hunchy
This is the house of the Shorts in Hunchy, early 1900s The Short families represented another early family group, like the Smiths, of...
The next generations of Collins in Flaxton
Bill and Marian Collins took over Kingview farm in 1961 when his father, William Joseph, retired to Glasshouse Mountains. Bill was a war...
The Negus Family
Negus Road George Oswald Negus (Os) was born in Maryborough on 25 April 1873. His father had emigrated from Surrey, England to...
The Manley Family – Dairy farming along Western Avenue
The Manley Family on their farm: Kev, Doreen, Nell, Ernie, Dell, and Bob the Second When Doreen Wyllie married Kevin Manley on 24 August...
The Hunchy Senescall Family
Frank Senescall was born in April 1864 at Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire. His parents were Jonathan and Hannah (nee Drinkall). Frank’s...
The G.E. Brown Family
George E. Brown on the steps of St Mary’s Church, 1914 George Edward Brown was 21 when he arrived in Montville in 1906 with his parents...
The first generations of the Collins Family at Flaxton
William Joseph Collins William Joseph Collins was born in 1889 at Redland Bay. He was the grandson of Daniel James Collins who pioneered...
The Children of George and Maria Butt
George and Maria Butt were amongst the earliest settlers in Montville, Their story is told elsewhere on this website. They had ten...
The Bowser Family – First Pineapple Farmers
Among the early settlers of the district were Alfred & Harriet Bowser. Alfred was born in 1862 and lived on the Albert River near...
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