QLD BDM Birth registration:
Mother: Jean Armour
Father/parent: Matthew Muir
Marriage.
MUIR-HUGHES .- At St. John's Church, Cairns, on the 23rd instant, by the Rev. G. R. F. Nobbs, Forrester Henry, eldest son of Matthew Muir, Brisbane, to Georgina Arabella Hughes, widow of the late Denis Hughes, of Bowen, and second daughter of Benjamin Warren, Esq., Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland.
(Cairns Post, 24 February 1887)
In 1884, Forrest was the Postmaster and storekeeper of one of the two general stores at Coolgarra.
In 1888, he was appointed as Librarian at the Cairns School of the Arts.
From 1899, he was the secretary of the Wolfram Camp Progress Association, and of the Peoples Parliamentary Association, Wolfram Camp, involved in the petitioning of the Postmaster General to establish a weekly mail service between Wolfram Camp and Thornborough, pushing towards Queensland joining Federation, and working towards having rail line laid to Wolfram Camp, among other things.
PASSING AWAY.
Mr. Forrester Muir, an old identity of the Cairns district, died on Wednesday night in the Mareeba hospital. Mr. Muir recentlv injured himself falling down a shaft at Petford.
Forrester is also commemorated on a family headstone, at South Brisbane Cemetery.
Mother: Jean Armour
Father/parent: Matthew Muir
Marriage.
MUIR-HUGHES .- At St. John's Church, Cairns, on the 23rd instant, by the Rev. G. R. F. Nobbs, Forrester Henry, eldest son of Matthew Muir, Brisbane, to Georgina Arabella Hughes, widow of the late Denis Hughes, of Bowen, and second daughter of Benjamin Warren, Esq., Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland.
(Cairns Post, 24 February 1887)
In 1884, Forrest was the Postmaster and storekeeper of one of the two general stores at Coolgarra.
In 1888, he was appointed as Librarian at the Cairns School of the Arts.
From 1899, he was the secretary of the Wolfram Camp Progress Association, and of the Peoples Parliamentary Association, Wolfram Camp, involved in the petitioning of the Postmaster General to establish a weekly mail service between Wolfram Camp and Thornborough, pushing towards Queensland joining Federation, and working towards having rail line laid to Wolfram Camp, among other things.
PASSING AWAY.
Mr. Forrester Muir, an old identity of the Cairns district, died on Wednesday night in the Mareeba hospital. Mr. Muir recentlv injured himself falling down a shaft at Petford.
Forrester is also commemorated on a family headstone, at South Brisbane Cemetery.
QLD BDM Birth registration:
Mother: Jean Armour
Father/parent: Matthew Muir
Marriage.
MUIR-HUGHES .- At St. John's Church, Cairns, on the 23rd instant, by the Rev. G. R. F. Nobbs, Forrester Henry, eldest son of Matthew Muir, Brisbane, to Georgina Arabella Hughes, widow of the late Denis Hughes, of Bowen, and second daughter of Benjamin Warren, Esq., Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland.
(Cairns Post, 24 February 1887)
In 1884, Forrest was the Postmaster and storekeeper of one of the two general stores at Coolgarra.
In 1888, he was appointed as Librarian at the Cairns School of the Arts.
From 1899, he was the secretary of the Wolfram Camp Progress Association, and of the Peoples Parliamentary Association, Wolfram Camp, involved in the petitioning of the Postmaster General to establish a weekly mail service between Wolfram Camp and Thornborough, pushing towards Queensland joining Federation, and working towards having rail line laid to Wolfram Camp, among other things.
PASSING AWAY.
Mr. Forrester Muir, an old identity of the Cairns district, died on Wednesday night in the Mareeba hospital. Mr. Muir recentlv injured himself falling down a shaft at Petford.
Forrester is also commemorated on a family headstone, at South Brisbane Cemetery.
Mother: Jean Armour
Father/parent: Matthew Muir
Marriage.
MUIR-HUGHES .- At St. John's Church, Cairns, on the 23rd instant, by the Rev. G. R. F. Nobbs, Forrester Henry, eldest son of Matthew Muir, Brisbane, to Georgina Arabella Hughes, widow of the late Denis Hughes, of Bowen, and second daughter of Benjamin Warren, Esq., Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland.
(Cairns Post, 24 February 1887)
In 1884, Forrest was the Postmaster and storekeeper of one of the two general stores at Coolgarra.
In 1888, he was appointed as Librarian at the Cairns School of the Arts.
From 1899, he was the secretary of the Wolfram Camp Progress Association, and of the Peoples Parliamentary Association, Wolfram Camp, involved in the petitioning of the Postmaster General to establish a weekly mail service between Wolfram Camp and Thornborough, pushing towards Queensland joining Federation, and working towards having rail line laid to Wolfram Camp, among other things.
PASSING AWAY.
Mr. Forrester Muir, an old identity of the Cairns district, died on Wednesday night in the Mareeba hospital. Mr. Muir recentlv injured himself falling down a shaft at Petford.
Forrester is also commemorated on a family headstone, at South Brisbane Cemetery.
Gravesite Details
Interred 22 June 1904. Unmarked grave.
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