Donald Gunn

Donald Gunn
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1856 – 1943 87 years

Born 19 February 1856 in Burnima, New South WalesDied 24 July 1943 in Kangaroo Point, Queensland, aged 87

Overseer and then manager of Pikedale station on the Darling Downs from 1873 to 1886, and later manager of Glenlyon station. He was a member of the United Graziers' Association and president of the Goondiwindi Show Society.

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Parents

DG Donald Gunn 1817–1885 father AH Anna Sophia Hughes 1827–1920 mother

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MD Mary Ann Rattray Deuchar 1858–1924 m. 29 December 1880

Children with Mary Ann Rattray Deuchar

SG Sophia Gunn 1886–1911 JG John Donald Gunn 1883–1966 WG Walter Gunn 1888–1968 MG Mary Gunn 1894–1947 DG Donald Deuchar Gunn 1882–1943

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1850s
Born 19 February 1856

Burnima, New South Wales, Australia
1870s
Occupation (Grazier) 1873–1886 aged 17

Pikedale, Queensland, Australia

Overseer and then manager of Pikedale station on the Darling Downs from 1873 to 1886, and later manager of Glenlyon station. He was a member of the United Graziers' Association and president of the Goondiwindi Show Society.

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1880s
Married to Mary Ann Rattray Deuchar 29 December 1880 aged 24

Queensland, Australia
Birth of son Donald Deuchar Gunn 4 February 1882 aged 25

Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
Birth of son John Donald Gunn 15 April 1883 aged 27

Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
Death of father Donald Gunn 14 October 1885 aged 29

Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australiaaged 68
Birth of daughter Sophia Gunn 13 February 1886 aged 29

Queensland, Australia
Birth of son Walter Gunn 19 September 1888 aged 32

Pikedale, Queensland, Australia
1890s
Birth of daughter Mary Gunn 10 March 1894 aged 38

Queensland, Australia
1900s
Member and Chairman, Waggamba Shire Council 1906 aged 50

Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia

Sat on the Waggamba Shire Council, based at Goondiwindi, and served as its chairman in the year before entering state parliament.

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Member for Carnarvon, Queensland Legislative Assembly from 18 May 1907 to 9 October 1920 aged 51

Queensland, Australia

Won the Darling Downs seat of Carnarvon as an Independent at the election of 18 May 1907 and held it for thirteen years, sitting as a Ministerialist from 2 October 1909, as a Liberal from 22 May 1915 and with the National Party from 16 March 1918. He retired from politics in 1920. In parliament he championed the small grazier and selector and advocated railway extension and prickly pear eradication.

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1910s
Death of daughter Sophia Gunn 22 June 1911 aged 55

Queensland, Australiaaged 25
1920s
Death of mother Anna Sophia Hughes 17 December 1920 aged 64

Queensland, Australiaaged 93
Death of wife Mary Ann Rattray Deuchar 25 March 1924 aged 68

Brisbane, Queensland, Australiaaged 66
Arrival 17 September 1924 aged 68

San Francisco, California, United States
1940s
Cremated 1943 aged 87

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Cremated at the Mount Thompson Crematorium, Brisbane.

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Death of son Donald Deuchar Gunn 14 April 1943 aged 87

St George, Queensland, Australiaaged 61
Died 24 July 1943 aged 87

Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia
Undated
Residence

Queensland, Australia
Departure

Yokohama, Japan
Education (Warwick State School and Brisbane Grammar School)

Queensland, Australia

Educated at Warwick State School, Brisbane Grammar School and the National School at Warwick.

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