The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Thursday 20 April 1950
Big pines market
Queensland tinned pineapples were now sold in almost every major country of the world, the manager of the Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing's Northgate Cannery (Mr. W. A. Mawbey) told the Queensland Cooperative Union congress yesterday.
The C.O.D., he said, had been the biggest factor in developing the industry in the State.
[Source: NLA49735829]

QLD MAWBEYS RETURN TO ENGLAND

The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Wednesday 4 June 1930
Mr. Henry T. Mawbey (Woombye), a member of the pineapple section of the Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing, leaves for England to-day by the Moldavia, accompanied by Mrs. Mawbey and their two sons and daughter.
Mr. Mawbey will be absent from Queensland for about 12 months, during which time he will make inquiries into European and English outlets for Queensland fruits.
[Source: NLA21535481]

MR W A MAWBEY, PINEAPPLE ENTREPRENEUR

The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Tuesday 5 November 1946
C.O.D. CANNERY TO START SOON
QUEENSLAND'S £330,000 grower-controlled pineapple cannery, being erected for the Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing, may be in production in February.
The manager of the Pineapple Sectional Group Committee (Mr. W. A. Mawbey) said yesterday that work was progressing rapidly.
The plant should be in production from the middle of February, in time to cope with the 1947 summer crop, which provided the season's main pack of canned pineapples.
Work on processing section was being pushed ahead as quickly as possible.
The remaining buildings and installations should be completed by next June.
Mr. Mawbey indicated that financial arrangements for the project assured its successful establishment.
He said that growers already had committed themselves to the redemption of £118,000 over a period of years, of the £330,000 required for buildings and plant.
The rest of the finance would be provided by the C.O.D. through debentures authorised by the Australian Loan Council.
First products from the enter prise would be sliced pineapples and tropical fruit salad (pine apples, papaws, bananas, and passionfruit).
When operating fully the factory would process all other varieties of Queensland fruits.
Mr. Mawbey estimated that, with the increased pineapple plantings of the last two years and heavy plantings now being made, there seemed little doubt, that about 1,200,000 cases annually would be available for processing, as against 750,000 to 800,000 cases in past years.
[Source: NLA49360340]

HENRY THOMAS MAWBEY, PINEAPPLES & POLITICS

Picture of members of the [Queensland] Pineapple Sectional Group Committee

The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Friday 8 November 1929

Henry Thomas Mawbey is front row, far left

[NLA21486498]

The Brisbane Courier, Monday 4 April 1932
Seven Nominated. Murrumba Plebiscite.
Nominations for the Murrumba plebiscite closed on Saturday when seven dandidates offered themselves for selection in the interest of the Country and Progressive National Party, at the coming election.
The nominations are - ... Henry Thomas Mawbey.
The candidates will address a series of meetings, commencing at Maleny today, on Tuesday at Woonbye, Wednesday Palmwoods, Thursday Maroochydore, Friday Redcliffe, Saturday Caboolture and Monday April 11 at Petrie.
[Source: nla21795675]

ENGLISH EVAN MAWBEYS

On Saturday 13 August 1859, The Sydney Morning Herald reported the death of John Evan Mawbey, 42 (b.c.1817), a compositor on the London Times at the Parramatta River.
No death certificate appears to have been lodged for him with what is today NSW Births Deaths Marriages.
Nor is there is any record of an inquest.
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Recently I was contacted via email by a Mawbey in England who appears to be related to him.
The men in his family were printers at the London Times and John Evan Mawbey may have been their nephew and cousin.
This still has to be confirmed.
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This Mawbey in England also knew about a Henry Evan Mawbey, married 1874 at St Saviour, Southwark, London (Surrey), who was his great great uncle.
Coincidentally, this was the name of the father of the first Mawbey in Queensland, Henry Thomas Mawbey, who arrived in 1921 and became a politician and pineapple grower at Nambour.
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It's so exciting when more pieces of the family history jigsaw come to light!

FIRST QUEENSLAND 'MAWBEYS'

According to my research of NLA digitalised newspapers, the first Queensland 'Mawbeys' came from London in 1921 and settled at Woombye near Nambour.
They were Henry Thomas and Mary Louise Mawbey (nee Woods) and children.
In 1932, one of their sons, John Oliver, born c.1909 in London, died at his parents home at age 23.
On 25 December 1937, their eldest son, Alan, married Ellen Pringle in St Andrew's Presbyterian church.
Henry Thomas's parents were Henry Evan and Mary Jane Mawbey (nee Joyce).
He was involved in state politics and growing pineapples and died in 1951.

QUEENSLAND MAWBYS PIONEER FAMILY TREE

               Lawrence (1) Mawby & Ann McCulloch
                                     m. 2-3-1847 Sydney
    _________________________________________________
    |               |                 |                |              |                  |             |
 Sarah        Mary Ann     Robert(1)     Emily    Laurence(2)    Edward(1)   Lucy
 b.1847      b.                   b.                 b.           b.                     b.              b.1860
                              
                   Robert (1) Mawby & Selina Hudson
                                     m.
 

Lawrence (2) Osborne b.1870

William Alfred b.1872

Emily b.1876

George b.1878

Alfred b.1881

Grace b.1884

                Laurence (2) Mawby & Ann Burton
                                     m.
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|                       |                |                 |                |                 |
Ada           Agnes       Charles        Edwin       Lucy         George
Francis      Victoria    Laurence     Frank        May            &
b.1881        b.1883     b.1885         b.1887       b.1891      Tilly
                                                                                          b.1885

                    Edward (1) Mawby & Martha Brook

                                 m. 6-3-1883 Toowoomba



___________________________________________
|                        |                      |                   |                  |
Ethel           Amy               Joseph          Thomas      Edna
Beatrice      Constance       Lawrence     Edward      Mabel
b.1884        b.1885             b.1887          Osborne     b.1899
                                                               

MAWBY BURIALS AT TOWNSVILLE

Mawby burials at Westend Pioneer Cemetery, Townsville, Queensland

• Elsie M - b.ca.1901, d.5-2-1921, age 20; d. Laurence Osborne and Hettie Ann Mawby.
• Hettie Ann - b.ca.1871; d.2-4-1950.
• Laurence Osborne - b.1870; d. 8-11-1954.
• Rosa - b.ca.1874; d.13-6-1941; age 67; wife William Alfred; presumed nee Ackers.
• William Alfred - b.ca.1874; d.9-4-1911; age 37; spouse Rosa.

DICTIONARY OF QUEENSLANDERS

I looked at the first of the three volumes that comprise the Dictionary of Queenslanders, compiled by Janet Reakes and Eileen Johnson, but there are NO MAWBYS listed in it.
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It was published by Australia's Immigration and Family History Centre at Hervey Bay in 1996.
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Janet, a very prominent family historian in the 1990s, was from there and Eileen from Maryborough.
I went to one of Janet's talks at Gordon Library and still have the notes I took of her talk!

LAWRENCE MAWBY PLOT THICKENS

The Australian descendent of Lawrence Mawby, horse dealer, has kindly sent me more information about him and his family, taken from the 1861 English Census.
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At that time, they were living at his birthplace, Bourne in Lincolnshire.
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Lawrence was 38, farmer, without occupation (unemployed?).
His wife, Ann, 34, is recorded as having been born in 'Sidney' Australia.
Their two eldest girls, Sarah and Mary Ann, are not listed because they are away at school.
The other children were: Robert, 9; Emily, 7; Lawrence, 4; and Edward, 2; Lucy, 4 mths(?).
Robert, Emily and Lawrence are recorded as having been born in Wellington, New Zealand.
The two youngest children, Edward and Lucy, were born at Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.
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Robert and Emily were listed as 'scholars'.
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There was also a servant in the household, aged 16, from Bourne.
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Lawrence's descendent tells me that Lawrence Mawby came back to Australia, and, it appears, settled in Queensland.
This explains the land grants to Robert and Lawrence.
New settlers were entitled to free land for their children.
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I will have to look at the shipping records for ships arriving at Moreton Bay from England.
Moreton Bay was the penal colony that was established in what is now Queensland in 1825.
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So Lawrence Mawby, horse dealer, does appear to be the Queensland Mawby forbear after all!

MAWBY'S METROPOLITAN HOTEL IN TOWNSVILLE

I've just found a photo on Picture Australia of Mawby's Metropolitan Hotel after Cyclone Sigma, January 1896.
How exciting!
A perfect present for me on AUSTRALIA DAY 2012.
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY to all my Aussie followers.

Mawby's Metropolitan Hotel
after Cyclone Sigma
Townsville
January 1896
CityLibrary Townsville
Local History Collection
BRN 324920

LAWRENCE MAWBYs REVISITED

Just to complicate matters surrounding the many Lawrence Mawbeys in Queensland, a descendent of the one who arrived in Sydney has informed me that he and his wife went to New Zealand, not Queensland.
That they stayed there for about 10 years and then went back to England.
Trying to check this out,  I found a webpage called Early NZ Settlers created by Wendy Leahy on her Shadows of Time Genealogy and Information website.
On the list was a Lawrence Mawby at Waikanae.
There was no date.

FAMILY NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH MAWBY IN QUEENSLAND

The family names associated through marriage with the first Mawbys in Queensland are:
Brook, Burton, Hansen, Hearn, Hudson, McCulloch, Orm, Phipps.

MORE LAWRENCE MAWBYS

I've now discovered that there were three 'Lawrence' Mawbys in early Queensland.
LAWRENCE MAWBEY I
1) The already mentioned, Lawrence Mawby who married Ann McCulloch in Sydney on 2-3-1847 and moved to Queensland [via New Zealand and Bourne, Lincolnshire, England].
LAWRENCE MAWBY II
2) Lawrence Mawby, b.c.1857 at Wellington, New Zealand who married Ann Burton on 12-10-1880 in Queensland (may be son of (1)).
LAWRENCE MAWBY III
3) Lawrence Osborne Mawby, grandson of (1), who married Hettie (Hetty) Ada Hearn in 1899.
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I have to be careful not to get them mixed up when discussing their children, and where the families lived.
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LAWRENCE I
The forebear of the Queensland Mawbey's appears at this stage to be the previously posted, Lawrence Mawby, horse dealer, who arrived in Sydney from London.
The children of he and his wife Ann McCulloch were:
(ii) Sarah b.1847 in Sydney, Australia; Mary Ann; Robert, b.1852, Wellington, NZ; Emily,  b.1854, Wellington, NZ; Lawrence, b.1857, Wellington, NZ; Edward, b.1859, Bourne, Licolnshire, England; and Lucy, b.1860, Bourne, Licolnshire, England.
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(ii) Robert (son of Lawrence I) b. Wellington, New Zealand, married Selina Hudson in Queensland and their children were:
1st Generation born in Australia
(iii) Lawrence Osborne Mawby, b.1870 (more to come)
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LAWRENCE III
(iii) Lawrence Osborne Mawby married Hettie Ada Hearn in 1899 and their children were:
2nd Generation born in Australia
(iv) Elsie Florence Gertrude, b.1901; Doris May, b.1904, Edna Selina Grace, b.1901
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(ii) Edward (son of Lawrence I) Mawby b. Bourne, Lincolnshire, England married Martha Brook and their children were:
(iii) Joseph Lawrence Mawby b. 1887; d.1892 (aged 5)
(iii) Thomas Edward Osborne Mawby, b.12-9-1889 at Toowong, Queensland.
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LAWRENCE II
The children of (i) Lawrence Mawby b. Wellington, New Zealand and Ann Burton were:
(ii) Ada Francis, b.1881; Agnes Victoria, b.1883; Charles Lawrence, b.1885; Edwin Frank, b.1887; Lucy May, b.1891 at Indooroopilly, Qld; George & Tilly (twins), b.1895.
(iii) Charles Lawrence married Annie Christina Hansen in 1906 in Queensland.
Their children were (iv) Charles Royston, b. 1906; Eric Lawrence, b.1901; Allan Peter, b.1911.
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This preliminary information comes from the online Queensland Births Deaths Marriages historical index.