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The Ascension story boards: Author Tony Rogers book, The Ascension features a number of people laid to rest in Balmoral Cemetery. The erection of story board...

Joseph Cornelius Marconi was born Joseph Mahoney in 1876 in London. Immigrating with his family to Australia around 1886, Joseph worked with his father in Sy...

The Honourable Herbert F. Hardacre was Minister for Lands in 1899, Minister for Education in 1915 and Lands Court judge in 1919. He was 78 when he died and i...

William Edward Parry-Okeden was known as a public servant, a police commissioner, a protector of aborigines and a horseman. Born at Murrunumbla Station, Snow...

James Stone arrived in Brisbane in 1857 and acquired land in 1875 at the corner of Logan and Old Cleveland Roads. His intention was to establish a hotel but ...

Edward Deshon, 1836 - 1924 was an important Queensland Public Servant who bought and sold land around Coorparoo. His family home Kemandine was built around 1...

A cockney by birth to Scottish parents, John Baillie Henderson completed his schooling in Scotland before the family emigrated to Australia in 1852. He arriv...