Hinterland Stories

Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.

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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...

Salvation Army Barracks – Montville

On New Year’s Day 1897, ten Salvationists from Nambour rode to Razorback to lend support to local Salvationist, Frank Senescal who had...

Vale Robert James (Jim) Hooper

A MAN OF GOD AND COMMUNITY Jim Hooper was born in 1928 in Somerset, England the son of Frank and Mary Hooper. He was one of ten children...

Pioneering Days Recalled

This story was printed in the Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. (1903-1926), Sat. 25 November 1922, p. 15 BLACKALL RANGE – EARLY RECOLLECTIONS...

Montville Memories by the Moore Children

Life in Montville 1955-1965 Our parents, (Cecil and Dorothy), moved the family to Queensland from Victoria in October, 1955, ostensibly...