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Carbrook
Before the white invasion, the area was called Tablabuba
or Tabooba which meant bitter water in the language of the Yaggapols who
lived there. German settlers in the 1860s called it Gramzow after a town in
Germany, but this was changed during the First World War when anything German
was suspect to Carbrook, the name of a town in South Yorkshire. The local
residents were presented by the postal authorities with a short list of names to
choose from and this is the name they selected.
Carina
Carina homestead was named by Ebenezer Thorne after his
only child, Kate Carina Thorne, and thence it passed on to become the name of
the suburb. Thorne was a journalist and author of the book, Queen of the
Colonies, published 1876.
Carindale
Carindale was developed in 1982 from the earlier Carina, used
since the 1880s
Carrara
The short-lived Manchester Cotton Company selected land in this
area the main feature of which was its swamp which covered a long, treeless
plain. The name is from an Aboriginal dialect meaning long. The first Carrara
post office was opened in 1902.
Carseldine
For an illiterate labourer, migrating at the age of 38 from
Huntingdonshire, England, William Carseldine made a very significant impact on
the history of Queensland. Over nine hundred descendants were accounted for at
the family reunion in 1958.
In England the family name is spelt Castledine. It is said that when William
went to register his claim for land at Bald Hills he was asked how he spelt his
name. Not knowing how to reply he turned to his young son, Jonathan, and asked
him how to spell it, and it was the lad who gave the spelling as
Carseldine.
Cecil Plains
Cecil Plains grazing run was named by Henry Stuart Russell and
his brother Sydenham after their mother, Cecil Charlotte nee Pemberton.
Cedar Creek
Considering the value placed on the red cedar trees growing in
the rainforests in the early days of settlement its not surprising that more
than one place today is known as Cedar Creek.
Chambers Island
Charles and Thomas Chambers (brothers) were early timber-getters in the Buderim
and Yandina districts.
Chances Plain
A little girl was lost and the searchers kept looking for her
in the chance that she could be found in this area about 8 kilometres from
Chinchilla.
Chandler
John Beale Chandler was born at Bunwell, Norfolk, England, 21
February, 1887. He migrated at the age of twenty and went into business as an
electrician and electrical goods retailer. He was successful in business as the
string of Chandler stores still testifies, but he also started Brisbane�s
first commercial radio station.
He went into both local government and state politics. He was Lord Mayor of
Brisbane 1940-1952, and leader of the Queensland People�s Party (which later
became the Queensland Liberal Party) 1943-1946. He died 1962.
Chapel Hill
The name for this suburb draws attention to the existence of the
people called Methodists. Back in 1873 one of the Methodist Churches which later
united to form the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Primitive Methodist
Church, bought land and in the next year built a chapel on the hill in such a
prominent position that it became a landmark for people travelling out along
Moggill Road. The area gained its name from this chapel on the hill.
Charleys Creek
The creek was named by Leichhardt (1844) after the leading
Aborigine in his expedition. It's Aboriginal name was Docabura.
Charlton
This locality on the Darling Downs was named after a local
settler.
Chelmer
The name seems to be derived from Chelmer River in Essex, the
stream on which Chelmsford was built. It was the name given to the railway
station when the railway line opened in the 1880s.
Cherbourg
This French name came about by accident. Richard Jones, the
second owner of Barambah holding, wrote to the Government in Sydney
suggesting Cherbury as the name for this block, this being where his family came
from in England. But his handwriting was not clear, and some official read it as
Cherburg. Then someone else thought to correct what he took to be a misspelling
of the name of the French seaport and wrote Cherbourg. So Cherbourg it became.
Richard Jones, who had Sydney business interests as well as pastoral interests,
became the first member of parliament for Moreton Bay in the New South Wales
Legislative Assembly.
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