[Index]
Robert James ATKINSON (1866 - 1939)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Daughter ATKINSON
Joyce ATKINSON
K. J. ATKINSON
R. L. ATKINSON
 Robert James ATKINSON (1866 - 1939)

+

Constance Charlotte LAMONT (1863 - 1949)
 James ATKINSON (1824 - 1899) Henry ATKINSON



Jane CLENDENNING



Catherine (Kate) GOOD (1825 - 1917) Thomas (John) GOOD (1790 - 1884) John GOOD
Catherine HAYES
Eliza CURTIS (1797 - 1875)



Robert James ATKINSON Constance Charlotte LAMONT
Robert James ATKINSON
Robert James ATKINSON Constance Charlotte LAMONT Robert James ATKINSON
Pic P1. In Loving Memory of
a devoted husband
and father
ROBERT JAMES
ATKINSON
Died 1st March 1939

Pic S1. In loving memory of
Our Darling Mother
Died 11th October 1949
Aged 86 years
"He giveth His beloved sleep."
Peace be your curtain
God's great love enfolding
Dream ye the dreams
That O'er His children sweep
Mansions of light
And loveliness beholding
For so he giveth His beloved sleep.

Pic 1. In Loving Memory of
a devoted husband
and father
ROBERT JAMES
ATKINSON
Died 1st March 1939

b. 1866 at Queensland, Australia
+. Constance Charlotte LAMONT (1863 - 1949)
d. 1939 at Queensland, Australia aged 73
Near Relatives of Robert James ATKINSON (1866 - 1939)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather Henry ATKINSON
Grandmother Jane CLENDENNING
Grandfather Thomas (John) GOOD 1790 abt 1884 Cork & Ross, Co. Cork, Ireland 94
Grandmother Eliza CURTIS abt 1797 1875 Macroom, Ireland 78

Father James ATKINSON 1824 County Armagh, Ireland 1899 Wairuna, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia 75
Mother Catherine (Kate) GOOD 1825 Coachford, Co. Cork, Ireland 1917 Queensland, Australia 92

Self Robert James ATKINSON 1866 Queensland, Australia 1939 Queensland, Australia 73

Spouse/Partner Constance Charlotte LAMONT 1863 Boronia,, Knox City, Victoria, Australia 1949 Queensland, Australia 86

Daughter Daughter ATKINSON
Daughter Joyce ATKINSON
Son K. J. ATKINSON
Son R. L. ATKINSON

Sister Elizabeth Kate ATKINSON 1861 Victoria 1912 Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 51
Brother Henry John ATKINSON 1864 Queensland, Australia 1934 Queensland, Australia 70
Brother Thomas Joseph Good ATKINSON 1869 Queensland, Australia 1930 Queensland, Australia 61

Son in Law A. J. CHAMPNEYS

Uncle John GOOD 1821 County Cork, Ireland 1907 Grassmere, Victoria, Australia 86
Aunt Sophia Louisa HEATLEY 1836 Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland 1916 Victoria, Australia 80
Aunt Margaret Curtis GOOD 1822 County Cork, Ireland 1898 Warnambool, Victoria, Australia 76
Uncle Thomas Curtis GOOD 1827 Ireland 1891 Ireland 64
Aunt Mary GOOD 1829 Rockgrove, Coachford, Cork, Ireland 1907 Glenthompson, Victoria, Australia 78
Uncle Robert Alexander FRASER 1823 1897 Glenthompson, Victoria, Australia 74
Uncle Henry GOOD 1831 Coachford, Co. Cork, Ireland 1868 Winslow, Victoria 37
Aunt Mary Jane ALLEN 1842 Dunlavin, Co Wicklow, Ireland 1934 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia 92
Aunt Annie Amelia GOOD 1832 Ireland 1914 Mortlake, Victoria, Australia 82
Uncle William Brereton ALLEN 1844 1903 Panmure, Victoria, Australia 59
Aunt Josephine Mary Ann GOOD 1834 Ireland 1907 Warnambool, Victoria, Australia 73

Cousin John GOOD 1871 Grassmere, Victoria, Australia 1912 East Melbourne, Vic, Australia 41
Cousin Sophia Louisa GOOD 1873 1961 Warnambool, Victoria, Australia 88
Cousin Leslie Emmerson GOOD 1875 Woodford, Victoria, Australia 1930 Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 55
Cousin William Henry GOOD abt 1875 1949 Warnambool, Victoria, Australia 74
Cousin John FRASER 1854 Newlands, Victoria, Australia 1938 Willaura, Victoria, Australia 84
Cousin Elizabeth Mary FRASER 1857 Warnambool, Victoria, Australia 1932 Mount Molloy, Queensland, Australia 75
Cousin Robert Alexander FRASER 1859 Warnambool, Victoria, Australia 1940 Glenthompson, Victoria, Australia 81
Cousin Thomas Henry FRASER 1860 Yangery, Victoria, Australia 1929 South Australia, Australia 69
Cousin Isabella Catherine FRASER 1862 Yangery, Victoria, Australia 1931 Ararat, Victoria, Australia 69
Cousin Lydia FRASER 1862 Yangery, Victoria, Australia 1938 Koroit, Victoria, Australia 76
Cousin Anne FRASER 1865 Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia 1945 Malvern, Victoria, Australia 80
Cousin Margaret Mary Ann FRASER 1867 Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia 1944 South Australia, Australia 77
Cousin Josephine Mary Ann FRASER 1870 Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia 1941 Victoria, Australia 71
Cousin Ethel Hilda FRASER 1874 Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia
Cousin Helena Victoria FRASER abt 1875 1954 Malvern, Victoria, Australia 79
Cousin John Thomas GOOD 1863 Warnambool, Victoria, Australia 1939 East Melbourne, Vic, Australia 76
Cousin Mary Letita GOOD 1866 Woodford, Victoria, Australia 1943 Colac, Victoria, Australia 77
Cousin Henrietta Eliza GOOD 1868 Winslow, Victoria 1950 Colac, Victoria, Australia 82
Cousin George MURCH 1875 1940 Terang, Victoria, Australia 65
Cousin Eric MURCH 1879 Glenthompson, Victoria, Australia 1963 Glenthompson, Victoria, Australia 84
Cousin Eileen MURCH 1882 Glenthompson, Victoria, Australia 1977 Mortlake, Victoria, Australia 95
Cousin Ruby MURCH 1883 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 1885 Glenthompson, Victoria, Australia 2
Cousin Elizabeth Good ALLEN 1875 1960 Coleraine, Victoria, Australia 85
Cousin William Thomas ALLEN 1876 Winslow, Victoria 1953 Portland, Victoria, Australia 77

Nephew Bryan Atkinson LYNN 1896 Queensland, Australia
Nephew Henry ATKINSON
Nephew James ATKINSON

Brother in Law Bryan LYNN 1922 Queensland, Australia
Sister in Law Isabel Frances MACKAY 1873 Brisbane, Queenland, Australia 1953 Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 80
Sister in Law Jessie Glennie "Glen" Godschall JOHNSON 1879 Gladstone, Queensland, Australia 1955 Atherton, Queensland, Australia 76
Events in Robert James ATKINSON (1866 - 1939)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1866 Robert James ATKINSON was born Queensland, Australia Burial info
1899 33 Death of father James ATKINSON (aged 75) Wairuna, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia Note 1 52, 60
1917 51 Death of mother Catherine (Kate) GOOD (aged 92) Queensland, Australia Note 2 52, 60
1939 73 Robert James ATKINSON died Queensland, Australia Note 3 60
1939 73 Burial Cashmire Station Ruins & Cemetery, Kirrama, Tablelands, Queensland Note 4 90
Note 1: Burial info

James Atkinson
in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name [James Atkinson]
Death Date 19 Apr. 1899
Death Place Queensland
Registration Date 1899
Registration Place Australia
Father Henry Atkinson
Mother Jane Clendenning
Registration Number 000855
Page number 804

North Queensland Register (Townsville) 1 MAY 1899
No doubt you have heard of the
Death of Mr James Atkinson of Wairuna
station.It occurred very suddenly last week
and much sympathy is extended for
Mrs Atkinson and the family. The deceased
gentleman came to Queensland in 1861
and has been one of the successful
pioneers of the North. He leaves a wido
w and one daughter and three sons.

Brisbane Courier 29 Aug 1899
realty and personality, £8000 James Atkinson, formerly
of Abergowrie station, near Cardwell, but
lately of Wairuna, near ingham, grazier,
to (Henry John Atkinson. Wairuna, near
Ingham, grazier, and W. McDowell, Green
-vale, near Charters Towers, grazier ; es-
tate sworn under £1830.
Note 2: Kate Atkinson
in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name Kate Atkinson
Death Date 14 Mar. 1917
Death Place Queensland
Registration Place Australia
Father Good
Mother Curtis
Registration Number 000481
Page number 66

The Argus (Melbourne) 9 April 1917
DEATHS.
ATKINSON.- On the 14th March, at Gunnawarra
Station, Mt. Garnet, N. Queensland, Kate Atkin-
son, relict of the late James Atkinson, of Port
Fairy, and Wairuna Station, North Queensland,
in her 93rd year.

Northern Herald (Cairns) 6 April 1917
A correspondent writes: The death
of Mrs. Kate Atkinson, relict of the
late James Atkinson, occurred at Gun
nawarra Station, Mt Garnet, on 14th
March, in her 93rd year. The deceased
lady was one of the oldest pioneers of
North Queensland, arriving at Bowen
with her husband in the early sixties.
Going inland on the outlook for sheep
country, their first stop was on the
Burdekin the present site of Green
vale Station, where they remained a
year or so and then moved on and
formed Mt Surprise with the late Mr.
Firth. Finding sheep a failure they
left in 1871 for the Lower Herbert,
where Ingham now is. Shortly after
arriving there the place was stuck up
by a number of wild blacks when the
men were absent, but the late Mrs.
Atkinson kept them pacified, doling
out stores till help came. In '81 they
sold out to the C.S.R. Company and
purchased Wairuna Station, where the
late 'Mr. Atkinson died. The de
ceased lady was also an old Vlictorian
Colonist, having arrived in Victoria
about the year 1850, where she lived
with her brother, the late Mr. John
Good, of Ingimira Station,Western
District, and used to relate many
thriling stories of the great fire,
known as Black Thursday.
Note 3: Burial info

Cairns Post 1 March 1939
OBITUARY.
MR. R. J. ATKINSON.
MT. GARNET, March 1.
Mr. Robert James Atkinson, owner
of Cashmere Station, on the upper
Herbert River, near Mt. Garnet, died
at the homestead shortly before 1 o'clock
this morning. He had suffered a long
and painful illness; necessitating last
year an operation in Sydney from which
he had recovered just sufficiently to be
brought home to Cashmere. Mr.
Atkinson, who was 72, was the second, son
of the Mr. James Atkinson, a pioneer
station owner, who took up grazing land
at Elizabeth Creek, in the Mt Surprise
district, where deceased was born, being
the first white child in that district.
A kindly gentleman, and first-class
cattle and horse man, he was very highly
respected throughout the North.
He leaves a widow and a grown up
family-- Mrs. A. J. Champneys (Glen
Harding Station), Mr. R. L. Atkinson
(Glen Ruth Station), Mr. K. J. Atkinson
(Wairuna Station) and Miss Joyce
Atkinson (Cashmere). The funeral will
probably be held at Cashmere Station
early this afternoon.
Mr. H. J. Atkinson, of Greenvale
Station, died a few years ago, and Mr.
T. J. Atkinson, of Gunnawarra. Station,
died in 1930.
Deceased was the last member of his
generation in the Atkinson family.

Cairns Post 4 March 1939
MR. R. J. ATKINSON.
REVIEW OF HIS LIFE.
GENTLEMAN PASTORALIST.
MT. GARNET, March 3.
It is with deep regret and a strong
feeling of personal loss that the pass-
ing of Mr. Robert James Atkinson,
of Cashmere Station, early on, Wed-
nesday morning at the age of 72, is
recorded. A kindly man with a keen
sense of humour and readiness to do a
good turn at any time, he was well
liked and respected throughout the
north.
With his exceptionally wide know-
ledge and experience, gained by a life-
time among cattle and horses, he had
built up probably the finest herd of
beef cattle and stud of thoroughbred
and draught horses in North Queens-
land.
Born of pioneering pastoralists,
James and Kate Atkinson, he was the
first white child born at Elizabeth
Creek, near where the township of
Mt. Surprise now stands. He soon came
to the fore as an outstanding horse
master and a daring rider. Leaving
the Mt Surprise district, he came to
his father's property Wairuna Sta-
ion, on the Upper Burdekin, where,
with his brothers (the late Mr. H. J.
Atkinson, of Greenvale Station, and
the late Mr. T. J. Atkinson, of Gun-
nawarra Station, who both prede-
ceased him by some years) he gained
further experience among stock. Later
he purchased Abergowrie Station on the,
the Lower Herbert, married Miss
Lamont, of Melbourne, and settled
down there for some years. Early in
this century he purchased Cashmere
Station, on the Upper Herbert River,
and with his wife and young family
commenced on the great task of mak-
ing it the beautiful home it is to-day.
Cashmere homestead is picturesquely
situated on a high basalt tableland
above the bank of the Herbert. In
the time he could spare from his many
duties on this big station Mr. Atkin-
son, who was an ardent gardener, ''
built up the famous terrace garden
with basalt, -which was lying loose on
the tableland. From annual visits to
the Sydney Royal Show, where he pur-
chased the best pedigreed animals
most suitable for the north, he gradu-
ally built up the station stock until
the Cashmere thoroughbred and
Clydesdale horses bearing the well
known 9WD brands are recognised as
possibly the best in the north. By the
judicious mating of pedigree Devon
and Shorthorn cattle, also purchased
at the Sydney Show sales, he produced
a strain, the stock from which are
eagerly sought by cattle buyers.
A fine upstanding man, nearly 6 ft
in height, in his youth he excelled
in athletics, and was noted for his
swimming ability. Many tales are
told by old hands of his daring feats.
One of them was the swimming of the
Herbert River in flood with a 50lb
bag of flour balanced on his head.
This was not a stunt but was repeat
edly done in the wet season part of
the day's work.
He treated his many employees, as
he did his guests in his hospitable
home - with the greatest consider-
tion.
Besides his widow and family
Messrs R. L. ("Montv") and K. J
Atkinson. Mrs. A. J Champneys, Miss
Joyce Atkinson - a number of em
ployees who have spent their life or a
large portion of it in his service, are
left to mourn the loss of this fine
gentleman. In the peaceful little
cemetery, within view of his home at
Cashmere, amid the surroundings he
loved so well, he was laid to rest.
Note 4: Robert James Atkinson
BIRTH
16 Dec 1866
Queensland, Australia
DEATH
1 Mar 1939 (aged 72)
Queensland, Australia
BURIAL
Cashmere Station Ruins and Cemetery
Kirrama, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia
Source References:
60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au
- Reference = (Death)
- Notes: Cairns Post 1 March 1939
OBITUARY.
MR. R. J. ATKINSON.
MT. GARNET, March 1.
Mr. Robert James Atkinson, owner
of Cashmere Station, on the upper
Herbert River, near Mt. Garnet, died
at the homestead shortly before 1 o'clock
this morning. He had suffered a long
and painful illness; necessitating last
year an operation in Sydney from which
he had recovered just sufficiently to be
brought home to Cashmere. Mr.
Atkinson, who was 72, was the second, son
of the Mr. James Atkinson, a pioneer
station owner, who took up grazing land
at Elizabeth Creek, in the Mt Surprise
district, where deceased was born, being
the first white child in that district.
A kindly gentleman, and first-class
cattle and horse man, he was very highly
respected throughout the North.
He leaves a widow and a grown up
family-- Mrs. A. J. Champneys (Glen
Harding Station), Mr. R. L. Atkinson
(Glen Ruth Station), Mr. K. J. Atkinson
(Wairuna Station) and Miss Joyce
Atkinson (Cashmere). The funeral will
probably be held at Cashmere Station
early this afternoon.
Mr. H. J. Atkinson, of Greenvale
Station, died a few years ago, and Mr.
T. J. Atkinson, of Gunnawarra. Station,
died in 1930.
Deceased was the last member of his
generation in the Atkinson family.
90. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Find A Grave, Title: Findagrave.com
- Reference = (Burial)
- Notes: Robert James Atkinson
BIRTH
16 Dec 1866
Queensland, Australia
DEATH
1 Mar 1939 (aged 72)
Queensland, Australia
BURIAL
Cashmere Station Ruins and Cemetery
Kirrama, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia
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