Pioneer family outside a bush camp, 1880-1890
(Photo: State Library of Qld)
The Oxford Dictionary defines a pioneer as a person who is the first to explore or settle a new country or area.
The Queensland Pioneer Index from the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages covers the years 1829 – 1889.
OUR PIONEERS
ADAMS, Percy Harry (1864 – 1930)
AKES, Dennis Francis William (1863 – 1943)
ANGEL, Philip (1857 – >1932) Rosewood Store and Bakery
ARNDT, Carl Fredrich Christof (1843 – 1921)
ASPINALL, John (1836 – 1906)
AUSTIN, William Honey (1830 – 1926)
BEAVIS, John Martin (1811 – 1886)
BENSLEY, Mark J. P. (1891 – 1958)
BLACKMORE, William (1845 – 1936)
BLAKE, Ernest James (1880 – 1962)
BOUGHEN, Robert (1831 – 1916)
BOURKE, Michael (1857 – 1926)
BOWLES, John (1885 – 1975)
BULCOCK, Thomas Ernest (1872 – 1952)
BUNNEY, Walter (1838 – 1909)
BUTT, Cuthbert (1863 – 1943)
COLLETT, William Edward (1851 – 1937)
COULSON, George (1880 – 1946)
COVENEY, Bartholomew (1846 – 1926)
COWELL, Charles (1834 – 1907)
DALE, James (1831 – 1908)
DALE, Patrick (1842 – 1890)
DART, John (1842 – 1898)
DESBOIS, Dan (1836 – 1898) First school teacher.
DÖLLING, William (Wilhelm) (1874 – 1942)
DOVE, John Grieve (1861 – 1944)
DUTNEY, Charles (1834 – 1906)
DWYER, Charles (1839 – 1923)
EATON, Samuel (1824-<1903)
EITEL, Christoph (1838 – 1912)
ELDER, David (1841 – 1921)
EMBREY, Richard (1855 – 1949)
EMMOTT, Frederick Christopher J.P. (1864 – 1932)
EVANS, John William (1882 – 1969)
EVANS, Joseph William (1839 – 1916)
EVERS, James Edward (1887 – 1925)
FARRELL, John (1836 – 1918) First resident at Rosewood Gate in 1864. First Gatekeeper.
FOOTE, James (1829 – 1895)
FREEMAN, Charles (1840 – 1925)
FULLEKRUG, Johann Heinrich Ludwig (1832 – 1919) (Known as Heinrich or Henry)
GRANT, Alexander Mark (1844 – 1916)
HAINES, Charles Richard (1870 – 1956)
HANNANT, Henry (1826 – 1910)
HARDING, George (1845 – 1934)
HOGAN, Thomas (1829 – 1903). Claimed to be the oldest pioneer of the district bar John Farrell.
HUDSON, Joseph (1832 – 1920)
ISZLAUB, Conrad Freidrich (1834 – 1909)
JACOBS, Henry (1829 – 1914)
JACOBS, John Henry (1853 – 1936)
JOHNS, Francis William (1847 – 1908)
JOHNSON, John Edward (1840 – 1903)
LANE, Charles (1842 – 1916)
LONEY, Absalom, (1841 – 1925)
LOUND, Fredrick Sibley (1867 – 1919)
LOVEDAY, Walter (1836 – 1915)
MADDEN, John (1818 – 1859)
MASON, Richard (1835 – 1908)
MATHEW, William (1806 – 1879) Selected 80 acres on the east side of John Street. Third Gatekeeper.
McGEARY, Henry (1843 – 1893)
MITCHELL, John (1852 – 1927)
MOORE, John (1840 – 1901)
MORAN, James (1836 – 1896)
O’BRIEN, Michael (1821 – 1899)
O’DONNELL, Patrick (1834 – 1910)
O’SHEA, James (1865 – 1947)
PEDRAZZINI, Domenico Giuseppe Antonio (1837 – 1920)
PERREM, William (1836 – 1922)
PFRUNDER, David (1840 – 1916)
PICKLES, James (1834 – 1910)
PONTING, James (1841 – 1925)
PREBBLE, Henry (1838 – 1909)
RATZ, Michael (1813 – 1883)
RIDSDALE, Charles (1868 – 1916)
RUHNO, Frederick William (1867 – 1938)
RUSH, Michael (1830 – 1910)
RYAN, James (1839 – 1920)
SCANLAN, William (1827 – 1893)
SCHURECK, Charles Nathaniel (1859 – 1936)
SELLARS, Robert (1869 – 1950)
SLOANE, Bernard “Barney” (1823 – 1888) Proprietor of the Rising Sun Hotel.
SMALLBONE, Lawrence (1837 – 1920)
URRY, Charles Sherrington (1817 – 1909)
VANCE, John William J.P. (1824 – 1882) Bought almost 80 acres on the west side of John Street. Second Gatekeeper.
WAIGHT, Robert Samuel (1845 – 1936)
WEIGAND, Nicholas (1825 – 1909)
WHITNEY, George J.P. (1845 – 1924)
WYATTE, William Charles (1846 – 1912)
YARROW, Charles. (1854 – 1885)
ZILLMAN, Vyvian Lange (1888 – 1962)