Histories of the Wide Bay Burnett
Richard Laurance
Connor
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Two histories of the founding of Bundaberg and the
districts of the Mary and Burnett rivers — and the nineteenth-century
source they are built on.
Free to read and to download.
Early Settlement and Development in the Wide Bay Burnett Region, With Particular Reference to Pioneers of the Maryborough and Bundaberg Districts
Richard Laurance Connor
· 2020
The founding of the Wide Bay Burnett district, told through the life of the pioneer, alderman and Member of the Legislative Assembly Walter Adams and the settlers around him. From the emigration out of Somerset in the 1840s to Adams's death in 1892: the building of the river townships, the Mount Perry railway, the sugar industry in the Woongarra Scrub, and the colonial politics that shaped all of it.
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The Endeavours of Its Very Early Pioneers, with particular reference to Walter Adams MLA
Richard Laurance Connor and John Kingsley Connor
· 2012
The earlier of the two books, written with the author's late brother John Kingsley Connor, whose archival research underpins both. It follows the very earliest settlement of Bundaberg and the townspeople who made it, again with Walter Adams at the centre.
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From the Year 1850 to 1895, Compiled from Authentic Sources
George E. Loyau
· 1897
Out of copyright
Not one of Richard Connor's books, but the contemporary history he cites most often. Loyau was writing in Maryborough within living memory of the events, and his book has been out of print for over a century.
Published in 1897 and long out of copyright. A scan is offered here so that readers can follow the citations in both of the books above.
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