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Mary Cairncross Park The sixty acres of rainforest
which her daughters gave to the Landsborough Shire Council are now
adminstered by the Caloundra City Council and carry Mrs A.J.Thyne's
maiden name. When the three young gentlemen, Matthew Marsh, Charles Marsh and Charles Perrot, imbibed too heavily in rum to bolster their courage against an expected Aboriginal attack which did not, in fact, occur, they gave to the place the name of Merrylands. Matthew Marsh later changed it to Maryland. Maryvale Originally the name of a pastoral
holding belonging to the Wienholt family. Patrick Mayne, erratic and
unstable in behaviour, grew prosperous through his Queen Street
butchering business and land acquisitions. One of his properties
gave his name to a part of Brisbane where extensive railway yards came
to be built. The generous donation
by two of his children, James and Mary Emelia, of the purchase
price for the land on which the University of Queensland is built at St
Lucia is commemorated by the naming of the Mayne Hall. The suburb is named after Ambrose McDowall, a landowner in the area. McDowall gave the name of his house Everton to neighbouring suburbs. Meadowbrook Meadowbrook was gazetted as a place
name in October 1991 although the estate had been marketed under the name of
Meandowbank. The name is formed from the
English word meander which in turn comes from the name of a river in
Turkey. An aerial view of the Brisbane River twisting and turning on
its way to Moreton Bay well illustrates the meaning of the word. The area now called Meldale was once owned by Major Mellish and the name derives from the first syllable of his name. The meaning is given by Queensland Railways as scrubby tree. Meridan Plains Richard and William Westaway named
their property Meridan Plains in the 1860s. It had some connection with their
father's home county of Devon. The name is a corruption of the Aboriginal words Moorin Gandan, meaning fire clay. Mermaid Beach This part of the Gold Coast was named
after the cutter Mermaid which carried Oxley, Stirling and Uniacke from
Sydney in 1823. Behind the name of Merrimac
stands the Stephens family. Thomas Stephens had made his money out of
newspapers and wool when he took up a large tract of mostly low-lying
land along by the Nerang River in 1876. He had been the second Mayor of
Brisbane, and for the last two years of his life was a member of the
Queensland Legislative Council. He died the following year at the age
of 58 leaving the property to his wife, Anne, but it was his son,
William, who was mainly instrumental in developing his dream of
draining the swamps and turning them into good agricultural land. Messines Named after an Allied victory in the First World War.
Samuel Griffith's rise from
poverty in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, to wealth and prominence as a
Queensland judge, Australian statesman and Father of Federation, is
represented by the name he gave to his Brisbane house with its spacious
riverside grounds,
Merthyr. Miami The Miami Shore development took place
prior to the Great Depression in the 1920s. The Hotel Miami opened 1925. Some people called the area One Eye after an Aboriginal shepherd who had only one good eye, but the Aboriginal term for one-eye came to be accepted. Middle Ridge The teamsters used to graze their bullocks and horses on the ridge between East and West Creeks in the 1860s and from this time on the area which is now a suburb of Toowoomba was known by this name. |