| NORTHERN QUEENSLAND FILE 2 |
Husband: Alexander (Sandy) Lennox
Born: 7 DEC 1859 at: Annisland, Glasgow, Scotland Married: 8 DEC 1890 at: Mt. Morgan, QLD Died: 1918 at: Bur: at:s Old Home Hill cemetery, QLD Father:James Lennox Mother:Ellen Kennedy Other Spouses:
| Alexander (Sandy) Lennox was born on 7 December 1859 in Annisland, Glasgow, Scotland, the son of James Lennox and Ellen (née Kennedy). He served time in the British Army in India and came to Australia c1886. On 8 December 1890 he married Margaret Algie in Mount Morgan, who had arrived in Australia in December 1890 on board the ship 'Taroba', having sailed into Rockhampton from Brisbane only a few days before the wedding. Her older sister had married Sandy's younger brother in Scotland a few years before and had emigrated to Mount Morgan in 1888. [Mt. Morgan is a mining community just south of Rockhampton] Sandy and Margaret then made their way to North Queensland where Sandy worked as a miner before applying in 1898 for the selection of an Agricultural Homestead [a selection was a parcel of land sold under a ballot system, with special conditions attached to the ownership]. He was duly issued a License to Occupy the following year for a property of 160 acres on the banks of the Barron River near Herberton [inland from Cairns]. Later. when the Inkerman land was opened up for selection in 1911 [south of Townsville, on the Burdekin River plains] Sandy entered the ballot and won three selections, side by side, totaling just over 301 acres. The family was the first of the new selectors to take up their land on the southern bank of the Burdekin, arriving there on New Year's Eve 1911, and the family quickly became part of the new community. When Sandy died in 1918, Maggie took her younger children in 1922 and moved back to Mount Morgan where her sister still lived. She died later that same year and was buried in the Mount Morgan Cemetery. Condensed from 'Pioneers of North Queensland', edited by Ursula Chandler & Jan Bennett, with contributors of record being D.E. Candlish of Bayview Height, Townsville, QLD, and Mrs Vivian Egan of Ingham, QLD. |