Coulter, Courtenay and Heiniger family papers and photographs
Collection
Photographs, correspondence, family papers, maps and ephemera relating to the Courtenay, Coulter, and Heiniger families of Mount Morgan and Mount Larcom in Central Queensland. The collection includes First World War items associated with Corporal Richard Henry Coulter, Private George Heiniger and Private Douglas Hugo Courtenay. Other material relates to the career of Nurse Rose Heiniger who trained at the Mackay District Hospital. The collection also includes: Rose Hardie (nee Heiniger) war widows' guild badge; a trench art silver Second World War match case engraved "Port Moresby 1942 H.D.J. from Lyall"; sketch of a Belgium nurse by Corporal Richard Henry Coulte; panoramic photograph of Douglas Ralston's property in central Queensland; marriage certificate of Harold Milo Mortimer Courtenay and Lily Una Stella Jones, 1905. Also included are items of ephemera relating to the Second World War.
Leonard James Cotton Courtenay was born in Bristol, England, in 1849. He married Sarah Maynard in Portsea, Hampshire, in 1875. The couple had three children born in England; Leonard Harry Linton (born 1878), Harold Milo Mortimer (born 1878), Alice Louise D'este (born 1880), as well as two children born in Australia; Douglas Hugo (born 1884) and Gladys Maynard (born 1891). The family emigrated to Australia on the ship, Duke of Buckingham, arriving in Brisbane on 10 September 1884. After first settling in Mount Morgan in Central Queensland, by 1916 they had moved to Wynnum, Brisbane, where Leonard worked as a clerk. He died in Hemmant on the 14th October 1940. His second son, Harold Milo Mortimer Courtenay, worked at the Lakes Creek Meat Works near Rockhampton before training as a fitter and turner. In 1905 he married Lily Una Stella Jones. The couple had five sons. With his brother in law, Harry Jones, the two families became the first settlers in the Butlerville District, outside Mount Larcom, Queensland. He eventually owned a property of over 5000 acres. He sold the property in 1950 and after a short retirement died in the Nambour Hospital on 20th May 1953.
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