Books Bundaberg's Beginnings Lists

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The four lists the book prints in its front matter, as it prints them. Each entry links to the page it names.

Appendices

  1. Appendix A1 Extract from the Board List of the “Victoria” 102
  2. Appendix A2 A Copy of the Marriage Certificate of Walter and Mary Adams at Gayndah in 1854 103
  3. Appendix A3 Freehold Land Purchases by Walter for Personal Use and Investment 104
  4. Appendix A4 Walter’s “Kolan Land” 105
  5. Appendix A5 The Sugar Pioneer of Maryborough 106
  6. Appendix A6 Some of Walter’s Letters 107
  7. Appendix A7 Last Will and Codicil of Walter Adams 109
  8. Appendix A8 Last Will of Mary Adams 113
  9. Appendix A9 Extracts from the Family Bible 114
  10. Appendix A10 Drawing of Summerville House at 118 George Street and Layout Plan of Ancillary Structures 115
  11. Appendix A11 The Queensland Legislative Assembly Circa 1890 117
  12. Appendix A12 The Maryborough Illuminated Address 118
  13. Appendix A13 The Adams Photograph Album Cover 119
  14. Appendix A14 Walter’s Landholdings in the Maryborough and Bundaberg Towns and Districts 120
  15. Appendix A15 Some Surviving Books of the Adams Library 124
  16. Appendix A16 A Conversion a Table 130
  17. Appendix A17 Commodity and Service Costs in 1892 131
  18. Appendix A18 Location of Sommerville Plantation 133
  19. Appendix B1 Walter’s Funeral 149
  20. Appendix B2 Michael Joseph Gahan 155
  21. Appendix B3a Location of St Mary’s Church of the Holy Rosary 156
  22. Appendix B3b The Record of the Church Land Acquisition at Public Auction 157
  23. Appendix B4 Michael Gahan’s Land Holdings 158
  24. Appendix B6 Superimposition of the Current Cemetery and School Boundaries on the Gahan Property Boundaries 162
  25. Appendix B7 Annotations by Fr. Constantine Rossolini in Two Volumes for Presentation to Walter Adams 163
  26. Appendix B8 A Presentation to Maria Adams by Sister M. Christina of the St. Joseph Order 164
  27. Appendix C1 Last Will of George Manus Adams 262
  28. Appendix D1 Thomas Riedy’s Land Holdings in the Bundaberg District 271
  29. Appendix D2 Obituary of Mr. T. Riedy 272
  30. Appendix E1 The Cordial Factory 277
  31. Appendix E2 Bertheau’s Major Land Holdings in the Childers District 278

Maps & Real Estate Details

  1. Chapter 2 Details of Early Settlement and Other Features the Local Area 8
  2. Chapter 2 Details of Early Settlement and Other Features District Map 9
  3. Chapter 5 The Location of Sommerville Plantation and Its Neighbours 34
  4. Chapter 10 The Troublesome Kolan Land 82
  5. Chapter 10 The Symons Land 82
  6. Chapter 10 The South Bundaberg Horse Paddock 83
  7. Chapter 10 The Hedges Land near Sandy Hook 84
  8. Chapter 22 T. Riedy’s Lot 669 Parish of Electra 266

Tables

  1. Chapter 4 Bundaberg’s Rising Custom Returns from 1871 to 1885 24
  2. Chapter 5 Crown Land Commission Valuation of Sommerville in 1876 33
  3. Chapter 5 A Comparison of Sommerville with Fairymead in 1888 37
  4. Chapter 7 The Number of Imported Kanaka Labourers from 1881 to 1885 50
  5. Chapter 7 Value of Complete Sugar Mills in the Bundaberg District in 1888 51

Photographs

  1. Chapter 3 Alexander Walker 13
  2. Chapter 4 Adams Hotel Following Construction 21
  3. Chapter 4 Adams Hotel Just Prior to Demolition 21
  4. Chapter 4 Bourbong Street in the Mid 1870’s 22
  5. Chapter 4 Early Bourbong Street with the Buss Emporium 25
  6. Chapter 4 Bourbong Street Looking East Past the Metropolitan Hotel 25
  7. Chapter 5 Walter Adams 30
  8. Chapter 5 Mary Adams 30
  9. Chapter 5 Cultivation at “The Pocket” near Maryborough 32
  10. Chapter 5 George and Lillie Adams 36
  11. Chapter 5 John and Mary Ann Bertheau 36
  12. Chapter 5 A Gathering - Probably at Sommerville Circa 1890 (Two photographs) 38
  13. Chapter 5 And the Same Land in 2004 (Two photographs) 39
  14. Chapter 6 Church of England House of Worship on Moa Island – Torres Strait 43
  15. Chapter 10 George Adams 74
  16. Chapter 10 Sarah Adams 74
  17. Chapter 10 Walter Adams 75
  18. Chapter 10 Mary Adams 75
  19. Chapter 10 The Greatheads 78
  20. Chapter 10 Shack on the Hedges Land near Sandy Hook 86
  21. Chapter 10 The Bundaberg Town Wharf 88
  22. Chapter 11 Adams Hotel Following Construction 136
  23. Chapter 11 Father Constantine Rossolini 138
  24. Chapter 11 St. Mary’s Church Pre 1917 139
  25. Chapter 11 The Bourbong Street Convent 145
  26. Chapter 11 The Christian Brother’s Woongarra Street School 146
  27. Chapter 11 Walter in Later Years 149
  28. Chapter 11 Walter’s Grave in the Catholic Cemetery 154
  29. Chapter 12 The Gladstone Plate 168
  30. Chapter 13 The Queensland Legislative Assembly 172
  31. Chapter 16 Westminster the Seat of the English Parliament 205
  32. Chapter 17 Londonderry’s Wall 214
  33. Chapter 17 Enniskillen Castle 215
  34. Chapter 17 The Boyne River Valley 218
  35. Chapter 17 Powerscourt Castle 221
  36. Chapter 17 A Derelict Connemara Cottage 227
  37. Chapter 18 The Scottish Highlands 230
  38. Chapter 18 Dunvegan Castle 231
  39. Chapter 19 Steam Power the Reconstruction of a Mississippi Steam Boat 235
  40. Chapter 20 A Pacific Ocean Outrigger Canoe 238
  41. Chapter 20 Sugar Cane at Rakiraki Fiji 241
  42. Chapter 20 An Outrigger Canoe’s Deck Fiji 243
  43. Chapter 21 James and George Adams 253
  44. Chapter 21 George and Lillie Adams 253
  45. Chapter 21 The Metropolitan Hotel Bourbong Street Circa 1900 256
  46. Chapter 21 Walter Thomas Adams and Emily McGRATH’S Wedding Reception 257
  47. Chapter 21 A Family Portrait 258
  48. Chapter 21 Walter’s Cordial Works 259
  49. Chapter 21 Walter’s Delivery to the Lawnhill Hotel 260
  50. Chapter 21 The Bar of the Metropolitan Hotel 261
  51. Chapter 22 Matilda Jane Riedy Nee Adams 265
  52. Chapter 22 The Riedy Family 265
  53. Chapter 22 A Riedy Family Portrait 267
  54. Chapter 22 Leon Taeffe 270
  55. Chapter 23 Mary Ann Bertheau Nee Adams 273
  56. Chapter 23 A Family Portrait 274
  57. Chapter 23 Maria Emelienne Bertheau 275
  58. Chapter 23 Mary Ann and Adeline Muriel Bertheau 275
  59. Chapter 24 James Adams 279
  60. Chapter 24 James and Kate Adams 281
  61. Chapter 24 Kate and Ernest Oswin Adams 282
  62. Chapter 25 Sarah Margaret Buckley Nee Adams 283
  63. Chapter 25 Sidney Easton Percy 284
  64. Chapter 25 Marie Bernadette Webb 286
  65. Chapter 25 Tom Webb 286
  66. Chapter 25 A Buckley Family Portrait Circa 1915 287
  67. Chapter 25 Irene, Elsie and Walter Buckley 288
  68. Chapter 26 Maria and Ellen Adams 289
  69. Chapter 26 “Newnham” at 116 George Street 290
  70. Chapter 28 Ellen Elizabeth Adams 292
  71. Chapter 28 Richard Walter Adams 293
  72. Chapter 28 A Family Portrait 294
  73. Chapter 28 Peggy – Marjorie Hammond Connor Nee Adams 295
  74. Chapter 28 Ellen and Richard Walter’s Wedding Reception 296