MT MOLLOY
Situated 40 kms north of Mareeba, and 36 km west of Mossman, I have had a fascination for the history of this small township ever since we visited our friends at their farm at Mt Molloy.
In 1885, Pat Molloy, a teamster, was looking for some missing cattle when he came across an out crop of copper 1.6km off the Port Douglas Road. He worked the diggings for 4 years, transporting the ore to Port Douglas for shipment to England and Germany. When the price of copper fell, Molloy left the claim, and in 1893 it was worked again by James Venture Muilligan and James Forsythe. They sold the claim for 6000 pounds. However the southern based company did not run the claim well, and Forsythe and a man named Buchanan took over the claim again. They sold the claim to John Moffat, who established the Mt Molloy Ltd Company. He built a smelter and employed 250 men. About 1909, Mt Molloy Ltd closed the smelters, and in 1916, Moffat liquidated the company
Forsythe built the hotel that Mulligan ran. It was at this hotel, in 1907, that Mulligan died, at the age of 70 years, after hitting his head while trying to break up a fight.
Today there is still a pub, a great bakery, a petrol station, school, some small businesses and a cemetery.
The National Hotel is situated on the main street.
[I have other historic details about Mt Molloy and it's people for anyone interested]
STREETS
IN MT MOLLOY
Buck
Street / Brown
Street / Crothers Street / Little Road / Santowski Crescent / Clacherty Street /
Fraser Road / Vains Close
MT MOLLOY CEMETERY
[I have full details of
inscriptions and descriptions of each headstone. I also hold a video of the
cemetery and its headstones.]
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ALSTON
Gordon James |
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ALSTON
Noelene Grace |
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ALSTON
Norman Edward |
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BAKER
Isabel Mary & Thomas Henry |
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BAKER
Mary Elizabeth & Thomas |
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BAKER
Lillian |
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BAKER
Robert Eric |
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BANSGROVE
Dora & George |
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BRADLEY
Charles William |
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BUTLER
Sophia |
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CAIN William James |
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CAMPBELL Elizabeth &
Neil |
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CHAPMAN
William John & Winifred Beatrice |
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CHAPMAN George |
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CLACHARTY
Allen McQuhir |
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CLACHERTY
Elizabeth & Robert Kirkpatrick |
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CLACHERTY
Stafford John & Wilhemina |
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CLARKE |
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CLARKE
Paul and Vida |
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CREMIN W.J.
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CROTHERS
John Warren Bathe |
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EDWARDS
Grace Maria |
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GERAGHTY Herbert Joseph
& Margaret |
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GERAGHTY Honorah &
James & Sarah |
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GRAY
Walter E. |
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JENKINS
Leslie John |
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JENKINS
Millicent Gladys,
Lillian &
William Arthur |
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LIANG |
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McDONAGH
Bernard & Bridget |
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McGILL
Thelma |
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McNARAMA
Francis Augustine |
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McNARAMA
Patrick Joseph |
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MULLIGAN
James Venture |
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PAYNE
Stephen Henry |
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PEDRAZZINI
Michael John |
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PETERSEN
James A. |
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REECE
Albert Thomas |
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ROSS
Edith & Donald |
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SANTOWSKI Robin Francis
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SIDES
John Alfred |
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SORENSEN
Frederick |
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SORENSON
Alexander |
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SWINDLEY
George Charles |
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SWINDLEY
Yvonne Kay |
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VAINS
Eric Vivian |
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VAINS
Alice Olive and Frederick Charles |
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VAINS
Frederick Charles |
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WESSEL
Douglas Hume |
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WESSEL
Douglas Alexander
Thomas |
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WEST
William George |
Read my story "Ghost in the Machine" about transcribing inscriptions.
References
Old Mining Towns of North Queensland by Frank Dempstey
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