NEBO councillor, Braeside station owner, Justice of the Peace, carpenter, carrier, buggy-maker and blacksmith ... former Nebo identity, the late Welsh-born John James Davis first arrived in Mackay in 1883.
Born in Swansea, Wales, on June 18, 1862, he was a carpenter by trade, and came to Australia under the free immigration scheme being promoted in England during the 1880s.
Faced with starvation unless they joined the army or emigrated to Australia, M. Davis and his mate J. Rogers, caught in the aftermath of the strike of iron workers in England in 1883, spun a coin: Heads, the army; tails Australia. Tails it was.
Herded
Recounting in early memoirs how he and his 400 fellow immigrants were "herded" to the immigration depot, approximately on the site of the present old railway station," Mr Davis said they were soon disillusioned about the wages being offered… "Twentv-five shillings was what a plantation owner offered us (Rogers and Davis) a week. But it was take it or get out. We took it.
During the three months John Davis spent on Alexander Plantation he chanced to meet a fellow Bristolian who persuaded him to go bush. Mr Davis said he he did not know what bush was, but he and his friend left and reached what was then called Walkerston bridge. For the second and last time he entrusted his future to the toss of a coin, and following the dictates of the coin, they went south.
Clermont-bound, Mr Davis and his friend Ted Burse reached North Creek (now Annandale) where, as "a pair of pure Chummies" they were engaged to put down a well.
Next job was helping a German with fencing on Leichhardt Downs Station until Burse "got into bolts" with the German and left.
On February 4, 1884, the rains came. Not knowing what to expect, they were soon hemmed in by three swollen streams - the Isaac; and Connors Rivers, and Lotus Creek. Mr Davis said from where thev were there was 15 miles of water.
In trees
For three days he and the German lived in two separate trees, about 100 metres apart. with no food and with nearly four metres of water under them.
"The German and I wept when we were found by a native, who'd been looking for us," Mr Davis said.
Then followed a break in Broadsound, where all the local pub had to drink - the boat came monthly with supplies - was draught brandy. "It nearly drove us mad," Mr Davis said.
From Leichhardt, where he and the German parted company, J.J. Davis teamed up with Mr J. McDonald for work on Saltbush Station, before heading for Nebo where he took a job as road ganger. Later, as gang boss, he took on Morris Daley, later called "the grand old man of Nebo-, then newly arrived from England.
Carrying
In 1888 Mr Davis started a carrying business with horse teams, in association with Mr J. Pascoe. In December of 1889 John Davis met and married Elizah Goode at Nebo. In addition to his carrying business, he bought and sold cattle on the side.
There were seven children of the marriage: Lillian, Amy, Anne (who
married Andrew Brough Milne in 1914) Daisy, Jack, Nell and Charlie.
Elizah was the youngest daughter (born 1869) of Abijou Charles Goode and his wife Emma (Mann), who emigrated from England on the vessel Belapaw (or Beejapore) in 1863, and initially worked on Avon Downs, then on North Fort Cooper Station, South Fort Cooper Station (the latter under manager Mr Harry Martin), before taking up his own property in the Parish of Woodhouse, and starting an orchard and vineyard.
Abijou and Emma Goode had five children: Wallace, Emma, George. Harriet and Elizah. George Goode had one son Benny, and Benny and his wife Jessie (nee Burgess) had eight sons: Henry, Allan, Len, Albert, Roy, Norman, Walter and Frank. Abijou Goode died at Nebo in 1892. Emma Goode died in 1906.
Len and Cheryl Goode (nee Jensen) Rov and Margaret (nee Brooks), Albert and Joyce (nee Balchin) and Frank Goode all live at Nebo. Wally ("Bowie") and Gladys Goode (nee Laird) live at Mirani; Norman and Nita (nee Sologinkin) live at Beaconsfield.
Article from the Mackay Daily Mercury
Toss of coin took settler to Australia
In this centenary year of local government in the Nebo Shire, a recent Daily Mercury feature article on the recollections of former Nebo resident, Mr James Emmet Boyle, 72, now of Brisbane, included references by Mr Boyle to a man called "Davis" who built the Fort Cooper Hotel (now the Nebo Hotel) and to an earlier Immigrant settler, Mr "Tom" Goode (Abijou Charles), both of whose families became related by marriage, and whose descendants now live in Mackay and Nebo districts.
The original hand-written daily diary (1917-1919) of Mr John James Davis has been lent to the Daily Mercury by Mr Davis' grand-daughter Mrs Olive (Milne) McLeod of Townsville. It gives an insight into events and personalities of the Nebo district during, and after, the First World War. A daughter of the late J.J. Davis, Mrs A.B. (Anne) Milne lives at North Mackay
NEBO councillor, Braeside station owner, Justice of the Peace, carpenter, carrier, buggy-maker and blacksmith ... former Nebo identity, the late Welsh-born John James Davis first arrived in Mackay in 1883.
Born in Swansea, Wales, on June 18, 1862, he was a carpenter by trade, and came to Australia under the free immigration scheme being promoted in England during the 1880s.
Faced with starvation unless they joined the army or emigrated to Australia, M. Davis and his mate J. Rogers, caught in the aftermath of the strike of iron workers in England in 1883, spun a coin: Heads, the army; tails Australia. Tails it was.
Herded
Recounting in early memoirs how he and his 400 fellow immigrants were "herded" to the immigration depot, approximately on the site of the present old railway station," Mr Davis said they were soon disillusioned about the wages being offered… "Twentv-five shillings was what a plantation owner offered us (Rogers and Davis) a week. But it was take it or get out. We took it.
During the three months John Davis spent on Alexander Plantation he chanced to meet a fellow Bristolian who persuaded him to go bush. Mr Davis said he he did not know what bush was, but he and his friend left and reached what was then called Walkerston bridge. For the second and last time he entrusted his future to the toss of a coin, and following the dictates of the coin, they went south.
Clermont-bound, Mr Davis and his friend Ted Burse reached North Creek (now Annandale) where, as "a pair of pure Chummies" they were engaged to put down a well.
Next job was helping a German with fencing on Leichhardt Downs Station until Burse "got into bolts" with the German and left.
On February 4, 1884, the rains came. Not knowing what to expect, they were soon hemmed in by three swollen streams - the Isaac; and Connors Rivers, and Lotus Creek. Mr Davis said from where thev were there was 15 miles of water.
In trees
For three days he and the German lived in two separate trees, about 100 metres apart. with no food and with nearly four metres of water under them.
"The German and I wept when we were found by a native, who'd been looking for us," Mr Davis said.
Then followed a break in Broadsound, where all the local pub had to drink - the boat came monthly with supplies - was draught brandy. "It nearly drove us mad," Mr Davis said.
From Leichhardt, where he and the German parted company, J.J. Davis teamed up with Mr J. McDonald for work on Saltbush Station, before heading for Nebo where he took a job as road ganger. Later, as gang boss, he took on Morris Daley, later called "the grand old man of Nebo-, then newly arrived from England.
Carrying
In 1888 Mr Davis started a carrying business with horse teams, in association with Mr J. Pascoe. In December of 1889 John Davis met and married Elizah Goode at Nebo. In addition to his carrying business, he bought and sold cattle on the side.
There were seven children of the marriage: Lillian, Amy, Anne (who
married Andrew Brough Milne in 1914) Daisy, Jack, Nell and Charlie.
Elizah was the youngest daughter (born 1869) of Abijou Charles Goode and his wife Emma (Mann), who emigrated from England on the vessel Belapaw (or Beejapore) in 1863, and initially worked on Avon Downs, then on North Fort Cooper Station, South Fort Cooper Station (the latter under manager Mr Harry Martin), before taking up his own property in the Parish of Woodhouse, and starting an orchard and vineyard.
Abijou and Emma Goode had five children: Wallace, Emma, George. Harriet and Elizah. George Goode had one son Benny, and Benny and his wife Jessie (nee Burgess) had eight sons: Henry, Allan, Len, Albert, Roy, Norman, Walter and Frank. Abijou Goode died at Nebo in 1892. Emma Goode died in 1906.
Len and Cheryl Goode (nee Jensen) Rov and Margaret (nee Brooks), Albert and Joyce (nee Balchin) and Frank Goode all live at Nebo. Wally ("Bowie") and Gladys Goode (nee Laird) live at Mirani; Norman and Nita (nee Sologinkin) live at Beaconsfield.
Hotel
About 1896, J.J. Davis built the Fort Cooper Hotel (known as the Nebo Hotel), but at first business was erratic. ---Sometimes it was nothing to go for several days without selling a drop,' then they'd all come with a rush," Mr Davis wrote.
"Many a time I saw them try to ride their horses up my steps."
The race meeting and the race ball were the big social events of the year, when women attending the big dinner wore white shoes and stockings, silk gloves, and beaded and sequined floor-length gowns. Men wore white gloves and lounge suits with high cellars, Mr Davis recalled.
The Belle of the Ball was always Connie Ney. Connie and her mother supplied the music. Sometimes J.J. Davis joined in on the concertina.
In 1906 John Davis sold the hotel to Mr Jim Perry and the Davis family took off for a holiday in England and Wales.
The next year J.J. Davis built and ran a shop opposite the hotel, remaining there for some six years before buying Braeside Station. He started a blacksmith's shop on the property and also built buggies.
Extracts
Following are extracts from a daily diary kept by Mr Davis during the later war years at Braeside.
Jan. 1, 1917: The New Year has started exceptionally well . . . 10 inches of rain since Christmas.
Jan. 5, 1917: Have just been reading of the distress in Clermont caused by the flood on December 27: 62 bodies have been recovered and they think 100 are missing. Half the town is washed away.
Feb. 2, 1917: Attended the Nebo Shire Council meeting. Quite a number of ladies arrived at the shire hall to witness the hanging of the enlarged photo of Edward Williams, also the Honour Board. Willie Dalton received a send off in Symonds' hall. Willie is about the last of our boys likely to leave for the front. Mr Williams was re-elected chairman of the Shire Council today.
March 2, 1917: 1 went to Nebo for a council meeting, but there not being a quorum, we, Mr Williams, J.B. Shannon and I formed ourselves into a committee to deal with the financial business. I was authorised to get the police paddock gully repaired at a cost of not more than four pounds. I got Ted Schabe to have a look at it and he agreed to do it for three pounds ten shillings.
Dec. 24, 1917: Christmas Eve- One day is quite like another in the bush.
Christmas Day: Very quiet. The day was nearly unbearably hot.
Jan 21. 1918; We had a cyclone last night . . . it blew the gangway over the fence ... everything in the house is wet, through rain drifting in under the doors. The rooms underneath are simply awful. We can only thank God the main roof has held. The rain gauge was running over this morning. It holds five inches.
Trail of damage
For the next few days, Mr Davis' diary constantly refers to the trail of damage in the district.
Denison Creek has been higher than any of the flood marks passed before… posts are washed away for 100 yards at a stretch. The Oxford Hotel seems to have been hit the hardest… both verandahs blown away, and the stable unroofed. Hardly a house in Nebo wasn't partially unroofed.
An entry on Jan. 23 gives Mr Davis' assessment of the rain.. "so far 12½ , inches".
Jan. 29, 1918: Harold Richards, just back (in Nebo) from Eton said Mackay was half washed away, that they had recovered 23 bodies, but they could not identify them; they buried them without being identified. No communication with any place from Nebo by telegraph and no mail since last Friday week. We heard both bridges had been washed away in Mackay.
June 7, 1918: At 4.30 a.m. today we experienced two distinct shocks of earthquake. It lasted about half a minute. The house and all in it were shaking. A good number of Nebo people told us later they had felt it too.
Mick Manning came back from the front by today's coach. They are holding a reception for the returned soldiers tonight - Manning, Graham, Muggleton and Wood.
June 14, 1918: The flags were half mast again today. Poor Sonny Beldan has been killed in action.
June 20, 1918: 1 attended a welcome home to returned soldiers given by the Nebo Shire Council. There were about 60 persons present. Of councillors there were Mr Williams, LB. Shannon, Mr Wallis and myself. Mr Shannon spoke on behalf of Mr Williams who did not feel equal to the occasion, having lost two of his sons at the battlefront.
Nov. 13, 1918: The rumour that Germany has surrendered is now officially confirmed, for which we are thankful.
Dec. 23, 1918: Home after 10 days in Mackay during which I tried to buy several places with the intention of opening a motor garage. I at last succeeded in buying the Star Theatre (in Wood Street) for the sum of 1860 pounds. It will take a lot of attention but is is nice and central.
Young Jack (Mr Davis' son) and I went over the stock in Braeside as we have decided to sell. James Perry is coming out tomorrow to take an inventory so that he can put it on the market.
Christmas Eve, 1918: James Perry came out today and took an inventory. 1 have put it in his hands for a fortnight. The price, walk in, walk out, with the exception of the new buggy and a few other things, such as photos, is 5850 pounds.
Feb. 20, 1919: N.E. (Nathaniel) Perry rode out today with an introductory, letter from his brother James as a prospective buyer for Braeside. 1 gave him a firm offer for three weeks at 5000 pounds cash.
March 2, 1919: 1 appointed H.T. McDermott my agent for the Star theatre also caretaker at 10 shillings per week. I told him to advertise in the two local papers also the Sydney Bulletin and the Brisbane Courier that the theatre was now available for entertainment companies.
March 14, 1919: Braside deal completed. Wired T.J. Leonard not to sell Star Theatre for not less than 2000 pounds clear of commission.
April 2, 1919: Left Braeside.
Three Shillings
Mr Davis' daughter. Mrs Anne Milne, of 20 Malcomson Street, recalled this week: "Dad sold all the Braeside stock for three shillings a head.
"He later bought a house named 'Clifton' in Shakespears Street and built three houses in Carlyle Street. Those houses, numbered 74, 76 and 78 remain today." Mrs Milne said.
Mr John James Davis died in 1945, aged 83.
The theatre was transferred to Milrose Motories (Andrew Brough Milne and Mr Lew Rose) about December 1927.
Mechanic 'knew his business'
ANNE, one of the four daughters of John and Elizah Davis of Nebo, married Andrew Brough Milne at Braeside in 1914.
Mr Milne ("AB" as he was widely known) was a native of Durban, South Africa, and it was in 1918 during a visit to his family, that Andrew and Anne Milne's third child, Gladys, was born.
On their return from South Africa, Mr Milne started the old Mackay Motor Garage in Brisbane Street, before taking on Milrose Motories with Lew Rose.
Their customers included many of Mackay's well-known families," Mrs Milne recalls. "Andrew knew his business, and was very well thought of."
Later involved in the sugar industry Mr Andrew Milne, a member of the firm of A B. Milne, Manufacturer of Agricultural Implements, established 1932, invented and patented the Milne "Cutter" cane planter.
Mr A.B. Milne died in 1979.
Mrs Anne Milne recently celebrated her 89th birthday while visiting her daughters, Gladys (Mrs Jeffrey Smith) and Olive (Mrs Thomas McLeod), both of Townsville.
A third daughter, Grace (Mrs Jim Grace) lives on the Gold Coast and Mrs Milne's only son Colin, resides at Airlie. The former Winifred Milne (Mrs Peter Christensen) is deceased.
Toss of coin took settler to Australia
In this centenary year of local government in the Nebo Shire, a recent Daily Mercury feature article on the recollections of former Nebo resident, Mr James Emmet Boyle, 72, now of Brisbane, included references by Mr Boyle to a man called "Davis" who built the Fort Cooper Hotel (now the Nebo Hotel) and to an earlier Immigrant settler, Mr "Tom" Goode (Abijou Charles), both of whose families became related by marriage, and whose descendants now live in Mackay and Nebo districts.
The original hand-written daily diary (1917-1919) of Mr John James Davis has been lent to the Daily Mercury by Mr Davis' grand-daughter Mrs Olive (Milne) McLeod of Townsville. It gives an insight into events and personalities of the Nebo district during, and after, the First World War. A daughter of the late J.J. Davis, Mrs A.B. (Anne) Milne lives at North Mackay
NEBO councillor, Braeside station owner, Justice of the Peace, carpenter, carrier, buggy-maker and blacksmith ... former Nebo identity, the late Welsh-born John James Davis first arrived in Mackay in 1883.
Born in Swansea, Wales, on June 18, 1862, he was a carpenter by trade, and came to Australia under the free immigration scheme being promoted in England during the 1880s.
Faced with starvation unless they joined the army or emigrated to Australia, M. Davis and his mate J. Rogers, caught in the aftermath of the strike of iron workers in England in 1883, spun a coin: Heads, the army; tails Australia. Tails it was.
Herded
Recounting in early memoirs how he and his 400 fellow immigrants were "herded" to the immigration depot, approximately on the site of the present old railway station," Mr Davis said they were soon disillusioned about the wages being offered… "Twentv-five shillings was what a plantation owner offered us (Rogers and Davis) a week. But it was take it or get out. We took it.
During the three months John Davis spent on Alexander Plantation he chanced to meet a fellow Bristolian who persuaded him to go bush. Mr Davis said he he did not know what bush was, but he and his friend left and reached what was then called Walkerston bridge. For the second and last time he entrusted his future to the toss of a coin, and following the dictates of the coin, they went south.
Clermont-bound, Mr Davis and his friend Ted Burse reached North Creek (now Annandale) where, as "a pair of pure Chummies" they were engaged to put down a well.
Next job was helping a German with fencing on Leichhardt Downs Station until Burse "got into bolts" with the German and left.
On February 4, 1884, the rains came. Not knowing what to expect, they were soon hemmed in by three swollen streams - the Isaac; and Connors Rivers, and Lotus Creek. Mr Davis said from where thev were there was 15 miles of water.
In trees
For three days he and the German lived in two separate trees, about 100 metres apart. with no food and with nearly four metres of water under them.
"The German and I wept when we were found by a native, who'd been looking for us," Mr Davis said.
Then followed a break in Broadsound, where all the local pub had to drink - the boat came monthly with supplies - was draught brandy. "It nearly drove us mad," Mr Davis said.
From Leichhardt, where he and the German parted company, J.J. Davis teamed up with Mr J. McDonald for work on Saltbush Station, before heading for Nebo where he took a job as road ganger. Later, as gang boss, he took on Morris Daley, later called "the grand old man of Nebo-, then newly arrived from England.
Carrying
In 1888 Mr Davis started a carrying business with horse teams, in association with Mr J. Pascoe. In December of 1889 John Davis met and married Elizah Goode at Nebo. In addition to his carrying business, he bought and sold cattle on the side.
There were seven children of the marriage: Lillian, Amy, Anne (who
married Andrew Brough Milne in 1914) Daisy, Jack, Nell and Charlie.
Elizah was the youngest daughter (born 1869) of Abijou Charles Goode and his wife Emma (Mann), who emigrated from England on the vessel Belapaw (or Beejapore) in 1863, and initially worked on Avon Downs, then on North Fort Cooper Station, South Fort Cooper Station (the latter under manager Mr Harry Martin), before taking up his own property in the Parish of Woodhouse, and starting an orchard and vineyard.
Abijou and Emma Goode had five children: Wallace, Emma, George. Harriet and Elizah. George Goode had one son Benny, and Benny and his wife Jessie (nee Burgess) had eight sons: Henry, Allan, Len, Albert, Roy, Norman, Walter and Frank. Abijou Goode died at Nebo in 1892. Emma Goode died in 1906.
Len and Cheryl Goode (nee Jensen) Rov and Margaret (nee Brooks), Albert and Joyce (nee Balchin) and Frank Goode all live at Nebo. Wally ("Bowie") and Gladys Goode (nee Laird) live at Mirani; Norman and Nita (nee Sologinkin) live at Beaconsfield.
Hotel
About 1896, J.J. Davis built the Fort Cooper Hotel (known as the Nebo Hotel), but at first business was erratic. ---Sometimes it was nothing to go for several days without selling a drop,' then they'd all come with a rush," Mr Davis wrote.
"Many a time I saw them try to ride their horses up my steps."
The race meeting and the race ball were the big social events of the year, when women attending the big dinner wore white shoes and stockings, silk gloves, and beaded and sequined floor-length gowns. Men wore white gloves and lounge suits with high cellars, Mr Davis recalled.
The Belle of the Ball was always Connie Ney. Connie and her mother supplied the music. Sometimes J.J. Davis joined in on the concertina.
In 1906 John Davis sold the hotel to Mr Jim Perry and the Davis family took off for a holiday in England and Wales.
The next year J.J. Davis built and ran a shop opposite the hotel, remaining there for some six years before buying Braeside Station. He started a blacksmith's shop on the property and also built buggies.
Extracts
Following are extracts from a daily diary kept by Mr Davis during the later war years at Braeside.
Jan. 1, 1917: The New Year has started exceptionally well . . . 10 inches of rain since Christmas.
Jan. 5, 1917: Have just been reading of the distress in Clermont caused by the flood on December 27: 62 bodies have been recovered and they think 100 are missing. Half the town is washed away.
Feb. 2, 1917: Attended the Nebo Shire Council meeting. Quite a number of ladies arrived at the shire hall to witness the hanging of the enlarged photo of Edward Williams, also the Honour Board. Willie Dalton received a send off in Symonds' hall. Willie is about the last of our boys likely to leave for the front. Mr Williams was re-elected chairman of the Shire Council today.
March 2, 1917: 1 went to Nebo for a council meeting, but there not being a quorum, we, Mr Williams, J.B. Shannon and I formed ourselves into a committee to deal with the financial business. I was authorised to get the police paddock gully repaired at a cost of not more than four pounds. I got Ted Schabe to have a look at it and he agreed to do it for three pounds ten shillings.
Dec. 24, 1917: Christmas Eve- One day is quite like another in the bush.
Christmas Day: Very quiet. The day was nearly unbearably hot.
Jan 21. 1918; We had a cyclone last night . . . it blew the gangway over the fence ... everything in the house is wet, through rain drifting in under the doors. The rooms underneath are simply awful. We can only thank God the main roof has held. The rain gauge was running over this morning. It holds five inches.
Trail of damage
For the next few days, Mr Davis' diary constantly refers to the trail of damage in the district.
Denison Creek has been higher than any of the flood marks passed before… posts are washed away for 100 yards at a stretch. The Oxford Hotel seems to have been hit the hardest… both verandahs blown away, and the stable unroofed. Hardly a house in Nebo wasn't partially unroofed.
An entry on Jan. 23 gives Mr Davis' assessment of the rain.. "so far 12½ , inches".
Jan. 29, 1918: Harold Richards, just back (in Nebo) from Eton said Mackay was half washed away, that they had recovered 23 bodies, but they could not identify them; they buried them without being identified. No communication with any place from Nebo by telegraph and no mail since last Friday week. We heard both bridges had been washed away in Mackay.
June 7, 1918: At 4.30 a.m. today we experienced two distinct shocks of earthquake. It lasted about half a minute. The house and all in it were shaking. A good number of Nebo people told us later they had felt it too.
Mick Manning came back from the front by today's coach. They are holding a reception for the returned soldiers tonight - Manning, Graham, Muggleton and Wood.
June 14, 1918: The flags were half mast again today. Poor Sonny Beldan has been killed in action.
June 20, 1918: 1 attended a welcome home to returned soldiers given by the Nebo Shire Council. There were about 60 persons present. Of councillors there were Mr Williams, LB. Shannon, Mr Wallis and myself. Mr Shannon spoke on behalf of Mr Williams who did not feel equal to the occasion, having lost two of his sons at the battlefront.
Nov. 13, 1918: The rumour that Germany has surrendered is now officially confirmed, for which we are thankful.
Dec. 23, 1918: Home after 10 days in Mackay during which I tried to buy several places with the intention of opening a motor garage. I at last succeeded in buying the Star Theatre (in Wood Street) for the sum of 1860 pounds. It will take a lot of attention but is is nice and central.
Young Jack (Mr Davis' son) and I went over the stock in Braeside as we have decided to sell. James Perry is coming out tomorrow to take an inventory so that he can put it on the market.
Christmas Eve, 1918: James Perry came out today and took an inventory. 1 have put it in his hands for a fortnight. The price, walk in, walk out, with the exception of the new buggy and a few other things, such as photos, is 5850 pounds.
Feb. 20, 1919: N.E. (Nathaniel) Perry rode out today with an introductory, letter from his brother James as a prospective buyer for Braeside. 1 gave him a firm offer for three weeks at 5000 pounds cash.
March 2, 1919: 1 appointed H.T. McDermott my agent for the Star theatre also caretaker at 10 shillings per week. I told him to advertise in the two local papers also the Sydney Bulletin and the Brisbane Courier that the theatre was now available for entertainment companies.
March 14, 1919: Braside deal completed. Wired T.J. Leonard not to sell Star Theatre for not less than 2000 pounds clear of commission.
April 2, 1919: Left Braeside.
Three Shillings
Mr Davis' daughter. Mrs Anne Milne, of 20 Malcomson Street, recalled this week: "Dad sold all the Braeside stock for three shillings a head.
"He later bought a house named 'Clifton' in Shakespears Street and built three houses in Carlyle Street. Those houses, numbered 74, 76 and 78 remain today." Mrs Milne said.
Mr John James Davis died in 1945, aged 83.
The theatre was transferred to Milrose Motories (Andrew Brough Milne and Mr Lew Rose) about December 1927.
Mechanic 'knew his business'
ANNE, one of the four daughters of John and Elizah Davis of Nebo, married Andrew Brough Milne at Braeside in 1914.
Mr Milne ("AB" as he was widely known) was a native of Durban, South Africa, and it was in 1918 during a visit to his family, that Andrew and Anne Milne's third child, Gladys, was born.
On their return from South Africa, Mr Milne started the old Mackay Motor Garage in Brisbane Street, before taking on Milrose Motories with Lew Rose.
Their customers included many of Mackay's well-known families," Mrs Milne recalls. "Andrew knew his business, and was very well thought of."
Later involved in the sugar industry Mr Andrew Milne, a member of the firm of A B. Milne, Manufacturer of Agricultural Implements, established 1932, invented and patented the Milne "Cutter" cane planter.
Mr A.B. Milne died in 1979.
Mrs Anne Milne recently celebrated her 89th birthday while visiting her daughters, Gladys (Mrs Jeffrey Smith) and Olive (Mrs Thomas McLeod), both of Townsville.
A third daughter, Grace (Mrs Jim Grace) lives on the Gold Coast and Mrs Milne's only son Colin, resides at Airlie. The former Winifred Milne (Mrs Peter Christensen) is deceased.
Article from the Mackay Daily Mercury
Toss of coin took settler to Australia
Toss of coin took settler to Australia
In this centenary year of local government in the Nebo Shire, a recent Daily Mercury feature article on the recollections of former Nebo resident, Mr James Emmet Boyle, 72, now of Brisbane, included references by Mr Boyle to a man called "Davis" who built the Fort Cooper Hotel (now the Nebo Hotel) and to an earlier Immigrant settler, Mr "Tom" Goode (Abijou Charles), both of whose families became related by marriage, and whose descendants now live in Mackay and Nebo districts.
The original hand-written daily diary (1917-1919) of Mr John James Davis has been lent to the Daily Mercury by Mr Davis' grand-daughter Mrs Olive (Milne) McLeod of Townsville. It gives an insight into events and personalities of the Nebo district during, and after, the First World War. A daughter of the late J.J. Davis, Mrs A.B. (Anne) Milne lives at North Mackay
© 2007 Olive McLeod. All rights reserved, except where noted. This material may not be reproduced, displayed, modified or distributed without the express prior written permission of the copyright holder. For permission, contact olivia@olivemcleod.com
Hotel
About 1896, J.J. Davis built the Fort Cooper Hotel (known as the Nebo Hotel), but at first business was erratic. "Sometimes it was nothing to go for several days without selling a drop, then they'd all come with a rush," Mr Davis wrote.
"Many a time I saw them try to ride their horses up my steps."
The race meeting and the race ball were the big social events of the year, when women attending the big dinner wore white shoes and stockings, silk gloves, and beaded and sequined floor-length gowns. Men wore white gloves and lounge suits with high cellars, Mr Davis recalled.
About 1896, J.J. Davis built the Fort Cooper Hotel (known as the Nebo Hotel), but at first business was erratic. "Sometimes it was nothing to go for several days without selling a drop, then they'd all come with a rush," Mr Davis wrote.
"Many a time I saw them try to ride their horses up my steps."
The race meeting and the race ball were the big social events of the year, when women attending the big dinner wore white shoes and stockings, silk gloves, and beaded and sequined floor-length gowns. Men wore white gloves and lounge suits with high cellars, Mr Davis recalled.
Hotel
About 1896, J.J. Davis built the Fort Cooper Hotel (known as the Nebo Hotel), but at first business was erratic. "Sometimes it was nothing to go for several days without selling a drop, then they'd all come with a rush," Mr Davis wrote.
"Many a time I saw them try to ride their horses up my steps."
The race meeting and the race ball were the big social events of the year, when women attending the big dinner wore white shoes and stockings, silk gloves, and beaded and sequined floor-length gowns. Men wore white gloves and lounge suits with high cellars, Mr Davis recalled.
The Belle of the Ball was always Connie Ney. Connie and her mother supplied the music. Sometimes J.J. Davis joined in on the concertina.
In 1906 John Davis sold the hotel to Mr Jim Perry and the Davis family took off for a holiday in England and Wales.
The next year J.J. Davis built and ran a shop opposite the hotel, remaining there for some six years before buying Braeside Station. He started a blacksmith's shop on the property and also built buggies.
Extracts
Following are extracts from a daily diary kept by Mr Davis during the later war years at Braeside.
Jan. 1, 1917: The New Year has started exceptionally well . . . 10 inches of rain since Christmas.
Jan. 5, 1917: Have just been reading of the distress in Clermont caused by the flood on December 27: 62 bodies have been recovered and they think 100 are missing. Half the town is washed away.
Feb. 2, 1917: Attended the Nebo Shire Council meeting. Quite a number of ladies arrived at the shire hall to witness the hanging of the enlarged photo of Edward Williams, also the Honour Board. Willie Dalton received a send off in Symonds' hall. Willie is about the last of our boys likely to leave for the front. Mr Williams was re-elected chairman of the Shire Council today.
March 2, 1917: 1 went to Nebo for a council meeting, but there not being a quorum, we, Mr Williams, J.B. Shannon and I formed ourselves into a committee to deal with the financial business. I was authorised to get the police paddock gully repaired at a cost of not more than four pounds. I got Ted Schabe to have a look at it and he agreed to do it for three pounds ten shillings.
Dec. 24, 1917: Christmas Eve- One day is quite like another in the bush.
Christmas Day: Very quiet. The day was nearly unbearably hot.
Jan 21. 1918; We had a cyclone last night . . . it blew the gangway over the fence ... everything in the house is wet, through rain drifting in under the doors. The rooms underneath are simply awful. We can only thank God the main roof has held. The rain gauge was running over this morning. It holds five inches.
Trail of damage
For the next few days, Mr Davis' diary constantly refers to the trail of damage in the district.
Denison Creek has been higher than any of the flood marks passed before… posts are washed away for 100 yards at a stretch. The Oxford Hotel seems to have been hit the hardest… both verandahs blown away, and the stable unroofed. Hardly a house in Nebo wasn't partially unroofed.
An entry on Jan. 23 gives Mr Davis' assessment of the rain.. "so far 12½ , inches".
Jan. 29, 1918: Harold Richards, just back (in Nebo) from Eton said Mackay was half washed away, that they had recovered 23 bodies, but they could not identify them; they buried them without being identified. No communication with any place from Nebo by telegraph and no mail since last Friday week. We heard both bridges had been washed away in Mackay.
June 7, 1918: At 4.30 a.m. today we experienced two distinct shocks of earthquake. It lasted about half a minute. The house and all in it were shaking. A good number of Nebo people told us later they had felt it too.
Mick Manning came back from the front by today's coach. They are holding a reception for the returned soldiers tonight - Manning, Graham, Muggleton and Wood.
June 14, 1918: The flags were half mast again today. Poor Sonny Beldan has been killed in action.
June 20, 1918: 1 attended a welcome home to returned soldiers given by the Nebo Shire Council. There were about 60 persons present. Of councillors there were Mr Williams, LB. Shannon, Mr Wallis and myself. Mr Shannon spoke on behalf of Mr Williams who did not feel equal to the occasion, having lost two of his sons at the battlefront.
Nov. 13, 1918: The rumour that Germany has surrendered is now officially confirmed, for which we are thankful.
Dec. 23, 1918: Home after 10 days in Mackay during which I tried to buy several places with the intention of opening a motor garage. I at last succeeded in buying the Star Theatre (in Wood Street) for the sum of 1860 pounds. It will take a lot of attention but is is nice and central.
Young Jack (Mr Davis' son) and I went over the stock in Braeside as we have decided to sell. James Perry is coming out tomorrow to take an inventory so that he can put it on the market.
Christmas Eve, 1918: James Perry came out today and took an inventory. 1 have put it in his hands for a fortnight. The price, walk in, walk out, with the exception of the new buggy and a few other things, such as photos, is 5850 pounds.
Feb. 20, 1919: N.E. (Nathaniel) Perry rode out today with an introductory, letter from his brother James as a prospective buyer for Braeside. 1 gave him a firm offer for three weeks at 5000 pounds cash.
March 2, 1919: 1 appointed H.T. McDermott my agent for the Star theatre also caretaker at 10 shillings per week. I told him to advertise in the two local papers also the Sydney Bulletin and the Brisbane Courier that the theatre was now available for entertainment companies.
March 14, 1919: Braside deal completed. Wired T.J. Leonard not to sell Star Theatre for not less than 2000 pounds clear of commission.
April 2, 1919: Left Braeside.
Three Shillings
Mr Davis' daughter. Mrs Anne Milne, of 20 Malcomson Street, recalled this week: "Dad sold all the Braeside stock for three shillings a head.
"He later bought a house named 'Clifton' in Shakespears Street and built three houses in Carlyle Street. Those houses, numbered 74, 76 and 78 remain today." Mrs Milne said.
Mr John James Davis died in 1945, aged 83.
The theatre was transferred to Milrose Motories (Andrew Brough Milne and Mr Lew Rose) about December 1927.
About 1896, J.J. Davis built the Fort Cooper Hotel (known as the Nebo Hotel), but at first business was erratic. "Sometimes it was nothing to go for several days without selling a drop, then they'd all come with a rush," Mr Davis wrote.
"Many a time I saw them try to ride their horses up my steps."
The race meeting and the race ball were the big social events of the year, when women attending the big dinner wore white shoes and stockings, silk gloves, and beaded and sequined floor-length gowns. Men wore white gloves and lounge suits with high cellars, Mr Davis recalled.
The Belle of the Ball was always Connie Ney. Connie and her mother supplied the music. Sometimes J.J. Davis joined in on the concertina.
In 1906 John Davis sold the hotel to Mr Jim Perry and the Davis family took off for a holiday in England and Wales.
The next year J.J. Davis built and ran a shop opposite the hotel, remaining there for some six years before buying Braeside Station. He started a blacksmith's shop on the property and also built buggies.
Extracts
Following are extracts from a daily diary kept by Mr Davis during the later war years at Braeside.
Jan. 1, 1917: The New Year has started exceptionally well . . . 10 inches of rain since Christmas.
Jan. 5, 1917: Have just been reading of the distress in Clermont caused by the flood on December 27: 62 bodies have been recovered and they think 100 are missing. Half the town is washed away.
Feb. 2, 1917: Attended the Nebo Shire Council meeting. Quite a number of ladies arrived at the shire hall to witness the hanging of the enlarged photo of Edward Williams, also the Honour Board. Willie Dalton received a send off in Symonds' hall. Willie is about the last of our boys likely to leave for the front. Mr Williams was re-elected chairman of the Shire Council today.
March 2, 1917: 1 went to Nebo for a council meeting, but there not being a quorum, we, Mr Williams, J.B. Shannon and I formed ourselves into a committee to deal with the financial business. I was authorised to get the police paddock gully repaired at a cost of not more than four pounds. I got Ted Schabe to have a look at it and he agreed to do it for three pounds ten shillings.
Dec. 24, 1917: Christmas Eve- One day is quite like another in the bush.
Christmas Day: Very quiet. The day was nearly unbearably hot.
Jan 21. 1918; We had a cyclone last night . . . it blew the gangway over the fence ... everything in the house is wet, through rain drifting in under the doors. The rooms underneath are simply awful. We can only thank God the main roof has held. The rain gauge was running over this morning. It holds five inches.
Trail of damage
For the next few days, Mr Davis' diary constantly refers to the trail of damage in the district.
Denison Creek has been higher than any of the flood marks passed before… posts are washed away for 100 yards at a stretch. The Oxford Hotel seems to have been hit the hardest… both verandahs blown away, and the stable unroofed. Hardly a house in Nebo wasn't partially unroofed.
An entry on Jan. 23 gives Mr Davis' assessment of the rain.. "so far 12½ , inches".
Jan. 29, 1918: Harold Richards, just back (in Nebo) from Eton said Mackay was half washed away, that they had recovered 23 bodies, but they could not identify them; they buried them without being identified. No communication with any place from Nebo by telegraph and no mail since last Friday week. We heard both bridges had been washed away in Mackay.
June 7, 1918: At 4.30 a.m. today we experienced two distinct shocks of earthquake. It lasted about half a minute. The house and all in it were shaking. A good number of Nebo people told us later they had felt it too.
Mick Manning came back from the front by today's coach. They are holding a reception for the returned soldiers tonight - Manning, Graham, Muggleton and Wood.
June 14, 1918: The flags were half mast again today. Poor Sonny Beldan has been killed in action.
June 20, 1918: 1 attended a welcome home to returned soldiers given by the Nebo Shire Council. There were about 60 persons present. Of councillors there were Mr Williams, LB. Shannon, Mr Wallis and myself. Mr Shannon spoke on behalf of Mr Williams who did not feel equal to the occasion, having lost two of his sons at the battlefront.
Nov. 13, 1918: The rumour that Germany has surrendered is now officially confirmed, for which we are thankful.
Dec. 23, 1918: Home after 10 days in Mackay during which I tried to buy several places with the intention of opening a motor garage. I at last succeeded in buying the Star Theatre (in Wood Street) for the sum of 1860 pounds. It will take a lot of attention but is is nice and central.
Young Jack (Mr Davis' son) and I went over the stock in Braeside as we have decided to sell. James Perry is coming out tomorrow to take an inventory so that he can put it on the market.
Christmas Eve, 1918: James Perry came out today and took an inventory. 1 have put it in his hands for a fortnight. The price, walk in, walk out, with the exception of the new buggy and a few other things, such as photos, is 5850 pounds.
Feb. 20, 1919: N.E. (Nathaniel) Perry rode out today with an introductory, letter from his brother James as a prospective buyer for Braeside. 1 gave him a firm offer for three weeks at 5000 pounds cash.
March 2, 1919: 1 appointed H.T. McDermott my agent for the Star theatre also caretaker at 10 shillings per week. I told him to advertise in the two local papers also the Sydney Bulletin and the Brisbane Courier that the theatre was now available for entertainment companies.
March 14, 1919: Braside deal completed. Wired T.J. Leonard not to sell Star Theatre for not less than 2000 pounds clear of commission.
April 2, 1919: Left Braeside.
Three Shillings
Mr Davis' daughter. Mrs Anne Milne, of 20 Malcomson Street, recalled this week: "Dad sold all the Braeside stock for three shillings a head.
"He later bought a house named 'Clifton' in Shakespears Street and built three houses in Carlyle Street. Those houses, numbered 74, 76 and 78 remain today." Mrs Milne said.
Mr John James Davis died in 1945, aged 83.
The theatre was transferred to Milrose Motories (Andrew Brough Milne and Mr Lew Rose) about December 1927.
The race meeting and the race ball were the big social events of the year, when women attending the big dinner wore white shoes and stockings, silk gloves, and beaded and sequined floor-length gowns. Men wore white gloves and lounge suits with high cellars, Mr Davis recalled.
The Belle of the Ball was always Connie Ney. Connie and her mother supplied the music. Sometimes J.J. Davis joined in on the concertina.
In 1906 John Davis sold the hotel to Mr Jim Perry and the Davis family took off for a holiday in England and Wales.
The next year J.J. Davis built and ran a shop opposite the hotel, remaining there for some six years before buying Braeside Station. He started a blacksmith's shop on the property and also built buggies.
Extracts
Following are extracts from a daily diary kept by Mr Davis during the later war years at Braeside.
Jan. 1, 1917: The New Year has started exceptionally well . . . 10 inches of rain since Christmas.
Jan. 5, 1917: Have just been reading of the distress in Clermont caused by the flood on December 27: 62 bodies have been recovered and they think 100 are missing. Half the town is washed away.
Feb. 2, 1917: Attended the Nebo Shire Council meeting. Quite a number of ladies arrived at the shire hall to witness the hanging of the enlarged photo of Edward Williams, also the Honour Board. Willie Dalton received a send off in Symonds' hall. Willie is about the last of our boys likely to leave for the front. Mr Williams was re-elected chairman of the Shire Council today.
March 2, 1917: 1 went to Nebo for a council meeting, but there not being a quorum, we, Mr Williams, J.B. Shannon and I formed ourselves into a committee to deal with the financial business. I was authorised to get the police paddock gully repaired at a cost of not more than four pounds. I got Ted Schabe to have a look at it and he agreed to do it for three pounds ten shillings.
Dec. 24, 1917: Christmas Eve- One day is quite like another in the bush.
Christmas Day: Very quiet. The day was nearly unbearably hot.
Jan 21. 1918; We had a cyclone last night . . . it blew the gangway over the fence ... everything in the house is wet, through rain drifting in under the doors. The rooms underneath are simply awful. We can only thank God the main roof has held. The rain gauge was running over this morning. It holds five inches.
Trail of damage
For the next few days, Mr Davis' diary constantly refers to the trail of damage in the district.
Denison Creek has been higher than any of the flood marks passed before… posts are washed away for 100 yards at a stretch. The Oxford Hotel seems to have been hit the hardest… both verandahs blown away, and the stable unroofed. Hardly a house in Nebo wasn't partially unroofed.
An entry on Jan. 23 gives Mr Davis' assessment of the rain.. "so far 12½ , inches".
Jan. 29, 1918: Harold Richards, just back (in Nebo) from Eton said Mackay was half washed away, that they had recovered 23 bodies, but they could not identify them; they buried them without being identified. No communication with any place from Nebo by telegraph and no mail since last Friday week. We heard both bridges had been washed away in Mackay.
June 7, 1918: At 4.30 a.m. today we experienced two distinct shocks of earthquake. It lasted about half a minute. The house and all in it were shaking. A good number of Nebo people told us later they had felt it too.
Mick Manning came back from the front by today's coach. They are holding a reception for the returned soldiers tonight - Manning, Graham, Muggleton and Wood.
June 14, 1918: The flags were half mast again today. Poor Sonny Beldan has been killed in action.
June 20, 1918: 1 attended a welcome home to returned soldiers given by the Nebo Shire Council. There were about 60 persons present. Of councillors there were Mr Williams, LB. Shannon, Mr Wallis and myself. Mr Shannon spoke on behalf of Mr Williams who did not feel equal to the occasion, having lost two of his sons at the battlefront.
Nov. 13, 1918: The rumour that Germany has surrendered is now officially confirmed, for which we are thankful.
Dec. 23, 1918: Home after 10 days in Mackay during which I tried to buy several places with the intention of opening a motor garage. I at last succeeded in buying the Star Theatre (in Wood Street) for the sum of 1860 pounds. It will take a lot of attention but is is nice and central.
Young Jack (Mr Davis' son) and I went over the stock in Braeside as we have decided to sell. James Perry is coming out tomorrow to take an inventory so that he can put it on the market.
Christmas Eve, 1918: James Perry came out today and took an inventory. 1 have put it in his hands for a fortnight. The price, walk in, walk out, with the exception of the new buggy and a few other things, such as photos, is 5850 pounds.
Feb. 20, 1919: N.E. (Nathaniel) Perry rode out today with an introductory, letter from his brother James as a prospective buyer for Braeside. 1 gave him a firm offer for three weeks at 5000 pounds cash.
March 2, 1919: 1 appointed H.T. McDermott my agent for the Star theatre also caretaker at 10 shillings per week. I told him to advertise in the two local papers also the Sydney Bulletin and the Brisbane Courier that the theatre was now available for entertainment companies.
March 14, 1919: Braside deal completed. Wired T.J. Leonard not to sell Star Theatre for not less than 2000 pounds clear of commission.
April 2, 1919: Left Braeside.
The Belle of the Ball was always Connie Ney. Connie and her mother supplied the music. Sometimes J.J. Davis joined in on the concertina.
In 1906 John Davis sold the hotel to Mr Jim Perry and the Davis family took off for a holiday in England and Wales.
The next year J.J. Davis built and ran a shop opposite the hotel, remaining there for some six years before buying Braeside Station. He started a blacksmith's shop on the property and also built buggies.
Extracts
Following are extracts from a daily diary kept by Mr Davis during the later war years at Braeside.
Jan. 1, 1917: The New Year has started exceptionally well . . . 10 inches of rain since Christmas.
Jan. 5, 1917: Have just been reading of the distress in Clermont caused by the flood on December 27: 62 bodies have been recovered and they think 100 are missing. Half the town is washed away.
Feb. 2, 1917: Attended the Nebo Shire Council meeting. Quite a number of ladies arrived at the shire hall to witness the hanging of the enlarged photo of Edward Williams, also the Honour Board. Willie Dalton received a send off in Symonds' hall. Willie is about the last of our boys likely to leave for the front. Mr Williams was re-elected chairman of the Shire Council today.
March 2, 1917: 1 went to Nebo for a council meeting, but there not being a quorum, we, Mr Williams, J.B. Shannon and I formed ourselves into a committee to deal with the financial business. I was authorised to get the police paddock gully repaired at a cost of not more than four pounds. I got Ted Schabe to have a look at it and he agreed to do it for three pounds ten shillings.
Dec. 24, 1917: Christmas Eve- One day is quite like another in the bush.
Christmas Day: Very quiet. The day was nearly unbearably hot.
Jan 21. 1918; We had a cyclone last night . . . it blew the gangway over the fence ... everything in the house is wet, through rain drifting in under the doors. The rooms underneath are simply awful. We can only thank God the main roof has held. The rain gauge was running over this morning. It holds five inches.
Trail of damage
For the next few days, Mr Davis' diary constantly refers to the trail of damage in the district.
Denison Creek has been higher than any of the flood marks passed before… posts are washed away for 100 yards at a stretch. The Oxford Hotel seems to have been hit the hardest… both verandahs blown away, and the stable unroofed. Hardly a house in Nebo wasn't partially unroofed.
An entry on Jan. 23 gives Mr Davis' assessment of the rain.. "so far 12½ , inches".
Jan. 29, 1918: Harold Richards, just back (in Nebo) from Eton said Mackay was half washed away, that they had recovered 23 bodies, but they could not identify them; they buried them without being identified. No communication with any place from Nebo by telegraph and no mail since last Friday week. We heard both bridges had been washed away in Mackay.
June 7, 1918: At 4.30 a.m. today we experienced two distinct shocks of earthquake. It lasted about half a minute. The house and all in it were shaking. A good number of Nebo people told us later they had felt it too.
Mick Manning came back from the front by today's coach. They are holding a reception for the returned soldiers tonight - Manning, Graham, Muggleton and Wood.
June 14, 1918: The flags were half mast again today. Poor Sonny Beldan has been killed in action.
June 20, 1918: 1 attended a welcome home to returned soldiers given by the Nebo Shire Council. There were about 60 persons present. Of councillors there were Mr Williams, LB. Shannon, Mr Wallis and myself. Mr Shannon spoke on behalf of Mr Williams who did not feel equal to the occasion, having lost two of his sons at the battlefront.
Nov. 13, 1918: The rumour that Germany has surrendered is now officially confirmed, for which we are thankful.
Dec. 23, 1918: Home after 10 days in Mackay during which I tried to buy several places with the intention of opening a motor garage. I at last succeeded in buying the Star Theatre (in Wood Street) for the sum of 1860 pounds. It will take a lot of attention but is is nice and central.
Young Jack (Mr Davis' son) and I went over the stock in Braeside as we have decided to sell. James Perry is coming out tomorrow to take an inventory so that he can put it on the market.
Christmas Eve, 1918: James Perry came out today and took an inventory. 1 have put it in his hands for a fortnight. The price, walk in, walk out, with the exception of the new buggy and a few other things, such as photos, is 5850 pounds.
Feb. 20, 1919: N.E. (Nathaniel) Perry rode out today with an introductory, letter from his brother James as a prospective buyer for Braeside. 1 gave him a firm offer for three weeks at 5000 pounds cash.
March 2, 1919: 1 appointed H.T. McDermott my agent for the Star theatre also caretaker at 10 shillings per week. I told him to advertise in the two local papers also the Sydney Bulletin and the Brisbane Courier that the theatre was now available for entertainment companies.
March 14, 1919: Braside deal completed. Wired T.J. Leonard not to sell Star Theatre for not less than 2000 pounds clear of commission.
April 2, 1919: Left Braeside.
Three Shillings
Mr Davis' daughter. Mrs Anne Milne, of 20 Malcomson Street, recalled this week: "Dad sold all the Braeside stock for three shillings a head.
"He later bought a house named 'Clifton' in Shakespears Street and built three houses in Carlyle Street. Those houses, numbered 74, 76 and 78 remain today." Mrs Milne said.
Mr John James Davis died in 1945, aged 83.
The theatre was transferred to Milrose Motories (Andrew Brough Milne and Mr Lew Rose) about December 1927.
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