Kate (Catherine) GOOD (1825

Kate (Catherine) GOOD (1825 - 1917)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) ATKINSON (1860 - 1912) Henry John ATKINSON (1864 - 1934) Robert James ATKINSON (1869 - 1939) Thomas Joseph Good ATKINSON (1869 - 1930)	Kate (Catherine) GOOD (1825 - 1917) + James ATKINSON (1824 - 1899)

b. 12 Feb 1825

m. 20 Mar 1860 James ATKINSON (1824 - 1899)

d. 14 Mar 1917 aged 92

Near Relatives of Kate (Catherine) GOOD (1825 - 1917)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father in Law	Henry ATKINSON	18 Aug 1772
Mother in Law	Jane GLENDINNING			1873

Self	Kate (Catherine) GOOD	12 Feb 1825		14 Mar 1917		92

Husband	James ATKINSON	02 Aug 1824	Co Armagh, Northern Ireland	19 Apr 1899		74

Daughter	Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) ATKINSON	24 Dec 1860		16 Dec 1912	Queensland, Australia	51
Son	Henry John ATKINSON	09 Jul 1864		06 Jul 1934	Ingham, Queensland, Australia	69
Son	Robert James ATKINSON	1869	Queensland, Australia	01 Mar 1939	Cardwell, Queensland, Australia	70
Son	Thomas Joseph Good ATKINSON	02 Aug 1869	Queensland, Australia	14 Jun 1930		60

Son in Law	Bryan LYNN	10 Nov 1849	Portsea Island, Hampshire, England	07 May 1922	Queensland, Australia	72
Daughter in Law	Isabel Frances MACKAY	14 Feb 1873	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	08 Oct 1953		80
Daughter in Law	Constance Charlotte LAMONT	abt 1863		11 Oct 1949	Cardwell, Queensland, Australia	86
Daughter in Law	Jessie Glennie Godschall JOHNSON	29 Apr 1879		18 Feb 1955		75

Granddaughter	female LYNN	1895	Queensland, Australia	1895	Queensland, Australia	0
Grandson	Bryan Atkinson LYNN	05 Mar 1896	Ingham, Queensland, Australia	14 Nov 1979		83
Granddaughter	Marion Elizabeth Ethel LYNN	06 Dec 1897	Queensland, Australia
Grandson	James Herbert (Jim) ATKINSON	09 May 1900	Queensland, Australia	12 Jan 1980	Queensland, Australia	79
Granddaughter	Coralie Frances ATKINSON	1902	Queensland, Australia	1920		18
Grandson	Henry Delwyn ATKINSON	10 Dec 1904	Queensland, Australia	08 Jun 1974		69
Grandson	John Reay ATKINSON	20 Oct 1910	Queensland, Australia	02 Dec 1949		39
Granddaughter	Vera Kate ATKINSON	1895	Queensland, Australia
Granddaughter	Doris Kathleen ATKINSON	20 Feb 1897	Queensland, Australia
Granddaughter	Ethel Joyce ATKINSON	06 Sep 1899	Queensland, Australia	09 Nov 2001		102
Grandson	Robert LaMont (Mont) ATKINSON	31 Jan 1902	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	02 Jul 1986		84
Grandson	Kenneth Edward ATKINSON	01 Nov 1904	Queensland, Australia	01 Oct 1990		85
Granddaughter	Eleanor Kate ATKINSON	20 Jun 1902	Queensland, Australia
Grandson	William Thomas ATKINSON	05 Oct 1905	Queensland, Australia	30 Oct 1976		71
Grandson	Leo Bruce ATKINSON	23 Jun 1907	Queensland, Australia	30 Apr 1911	Queensland, Australia	3
Granddaughter	Jessie Glen ATKINSON	11 Mar 1912	Queensland, Australia	21 Aug 2005		93
Granddaughter	Nancy ATKINSON	31 Dec 1913	Queensland, Australia	10 Feb 1988		74
Grandson	Geoffrey Good ATKINSON	17 Jun 1917		29 Apr 1995		77
Grandson	Vernon Good ATKINSON	24 Jan 1923

Nephew	Henry Glendinning ATKINSON	11 Apr 1833		1840		7
Nephew	Jackson Lloyd ATKINSON	04 Nov 1834
Niece	Caroline Elizabeth ATKINSON	24 Sep 1837
Nephew	H T Glendinning ATKINSON	13 Jun 1840
Niece	Jane ATKINSON	24 Aug 1843
Nephew	Joseph Foster ATKINSON	21 Sep 1844
Nephew	Alfrid James ATKINSON	11 Jun 1846
Niece	Milicent sophia BLACKHAM	abt 1842	Belfast, Co Antrim, Ireland	13 May 1916	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	74
Nephew	Henry Atkinson BLACKHAM	1843	Middlesex, England	1884	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	41
Niece	Louisa Jane BLACKHAM	abt 1846	Newry, Do Down, Ireland	1882	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia	36

Sister in Law	Eliza ATKINSON
Brother in Law	Henry ATKINSON
Brother in Law	John ATKINSON
Sister in Law	Mary ATKINSON
Brother in Law	Robert ATKINSON			1900
Sister in Law	Sarah ATKINSON
Sister in Law	Jane ATKINSON	1816	Camden, Middlesex, England	1888	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia	72
Sister in Law	Letitia ATKINSON	abt 1819		29 Oct 1899	Trafalgar South, Victoria, Australia	80
Brother in Law	Joseph Cope ATKINSON	12 Dec 1820		29 Sep 1853		32
Brother in Law	William Verner ATKINSON	11 May 1823

Events in Kate (Catherine) GOOD (1825 - 1917)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
12 Feb 1825		Kate (Catherine) GOOD was born
20 Mar 1860	35	Married James ATKINSON (aged 35)
24 Dec 1860	35	Birth of daughter Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) ATKINSON
09 Jul 1864	39	Birth of son Henry John ATKINSON
1869	44	Birth of son Robert James ATKINSON	Queensland, Australia	1870/O000056 & 1869/C000134
02 Aug 1869	44	Birth of son Thomas Joseph Good ATKINSON	Queensland, Australia	1869/C000135
19 Apr 1899	74	Death of husband James ATKINSON (aged 74)
16 Dec 1912	87	Death of daughter Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) ATKINSON (aged 51)	Queensland, Australia	1912/c004661
14 Mar 1917	92	Kate (Catherine) GOOD died

Personal Notes:

Burried at Gunnawarra.

http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/heritage/index.cgi?place=600544&back=1

Gunnawarra is a pastoral property first occupied by Europeans in 1865 and was an outlying part of the Valley of Lagoons run on the Upper Burdekin River, established in 1863.

Ludwig Leichhardt discovered and named the Valley of Lagoons in 1845. George Dalrymple was appointed the first Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Kennedy district in 1861. He had arrived in Australia in the late 1850s, hoping to take up land on the Darling Downs. However this proved unsuccessful and he travelled north. He chose a well-watered block in the Valley of Lagoons and set up a partnership with brothers Arthur and Walter Scott and Robert Herbert in 1863. In 1864 Dalrymple and Arthur Scott travelled to the area and blazed a trail from what was to be the port of Cardwell to the Valley of Lagoons. The Scott brothers ran the property and soon afterwards Dalrymple relinquished his interest in the run to enter politics.

Gunnawarra was originally a run of 100 square miles and was occupied from 10 April 1865. Following the Pastoral Leases Act of 1869, the run was consolidated and included the blocks of Gunnawarra, Barcoo 1, 2 and 3, Froyle, Tempe, Tempe North, Tempe West, Forrest and Borderland. It then covered an area of 555 square miles and was leased by the partnership of Dangar, Bell, Bell and Ewan. Other outlying blocks of the Valley of Lagoons were formed as the stations of Cashmere and Greenvale. In 1878 the station appeared in the Post Office Directory as 'Gunniawarra', said to mean 'little house'. Later the name was amended to Gunna-Warra and then Gunnawarra in 1890. The first buildings erected at Gunnawarra were of slab construction and included a saddle shed and adjoining quarters. The earliest section of the homestead building was constructed in 1878 and is located on Bell's Creek, a tributary of the Herbert River. Jack Broad, who also built Kirrama homestead, constructed it of slabs with locally cut cypress pine for the uprights and rafters; stringy bark was carted from over twenty miles away for the shingles and hand adzed slabs. The floor was of rammed antbed.

Gunnawarra was divided into two sections following the Crown Lands Act of 1884, becoming Gunnawarra and Forrest. James Ewan purchased Gunnawarra at auction in September 1887. He held it until his death over twenty years later, when it passed to his wife and trustees. On 9 March 1904 it was sold to a partnership of the three Atkinson brothers, Henry John Atkinson of Greenvale, Robert James Atkinson of Cashmere and Thomas Joseph Good Atkinson of Kangaroo Hills.

In 1862 their parents, James and Kate Atkinson, were part of a small group of prospective settlers who arrived in the area. They had previous pastoral experience in Victoria and took up land at Mount Surprise in partnership with Ezra Firth. After a few years, the partnership was dissolved and in 1870 Atkinson took up Farnham station at the site of Ingham. In 1880 he purchased Wairuna and about 5000 acres from the Valley of Lagoons as Abergowrie. Thomas Atkinson married in 1901 and in 1904 brought his wife, Jessie Glennie Godschall, known as Glen, and their baby daughter to live at Gunnawarra. In 1908 they added a bedroom wing of tongue and groove cedar to the house and clad the shingled roof with corrugated iron. In 1913, the buildings of the property were reported to be a house, kitchen, outbuildings, stockyard, horse and milking yards, assessed at £125 in value.

Parts of Gunnawarra were resumed for grazing selections in 1914. In 1922, the brothers' partnership was dissolved and in 1924 the lease for Gunnawarra was transferred into the name of Thomas Atkinson alone. In 1929, when the lease expired, various parties made enquiries to the Lands Department regarding further resumptions for selection. An inspection was made in 1930 and on the recommendation of the Beef Cattle Commission the lease was extended on the grounds that previous resumptions had failed and been sold back to the Atkinson family by the selectors. The area covered by the Gunnawarra lease was then 245 square miles. In 1930, the Gunnawarra Pastoral Company held numerous leases and was composed of Thomas Atkinson, his wife and other family members. After he died on 14 June of that year, Glen Atkinson ran Gunnawarra.

Picnic races had been held at Gunnawarra in Ewan's time, but were discontinued when he died. In 1918 R.L. Atkinson, a nephew, decided to form a race club using the old course, about 5 miles from the homestead. Several surrounding stations agreed to participate and a Gunnawarra Picnic Hack Race Meeting was registered for New Year's Day, 1919 followed by a ball at the homestead. After a few years of running this event annually, a concrete slab was laid down at the racetrack for the purpose of dancing as most participants camped at the course. The large room added to the homestead in 1928 is said to have also been used as a ballroom for these races. The races were discontinued after Tom Atkinson's death in June 1930.

In 1933 a small house was constructed close to the lagoon some 3 kilometres north of the homestead complex. It was built using traditional techniques and local materials by local aboriginal people and station hands. It was intended for use by senior station employees such as the head stockman and later the bookkeeper.

In 1938, 324 acres of Gunnawarra were resumed for the highway, leaving 224 square miles.

Various alterations to the homestead were undertaken in the 1950s and 60s, including the lining of the interior with masonite, the replacement of verandah boards, the addition of concrete floors and inserting a skylight in the roof. New structures have also been added and a new ranch style homestead, a swimming pool and tennis court were probably also constructed in this period.

The homestead took farm-stay guests in the 1980s, but has not been used for this purpose for some years. Gunnawarra continues as a working cattle property and is still owned by members of the Atkinson family.

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