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Ekibin
Thomas Stephens gave the name
to a swampy area along Logan Road formerly known as Burnett Swamp when
he established a felmongery business there in 1962. It has assumed a
number of forms :
Ekibbon, Yeekabin, Yekibin, but in its Aboriginal origins it meant
'good eating' and referred to the good supply of edible roots there.
The underground, horizontal stems of the Bungwall fern (Blechnum indicum)
featured prominently in the diet of the Aboriginal people around
Moreton Bay. The stem was dug out with a sharp stick, partly
dried in the sun, roasted, and then pounded with a stone.
T.B.Stephens
had already owned woolen mills in Rochedale, England, before migrating
to Australia. He set up a woolscour and fellmongery near Cleveland
before transferring it to the Ekibin site. He later added a tannery. He
served as an alderman for South Brisbane, was Brisbane's second Mayor,
served in the Queensland Parliament for most of the 1860s and 1870s. He
was a strong Baptist, son of a Baptist minister. Their family home
Cumbooquepa is now part of Somerville House college.
Elanora
The name is supposed to mean a camp by
the sea.
Elimbah
The area was known to the Kabi
people as the place of the grey
watersnake, Elimbah. The teamsters knew it was The Six Mile, a place to
camp and rest their horses or bullocks. But when the railway came
through, 1890, the rail stop was simply known as '36miles 68chains'. It
was officially named Elimbah, 20 September, 1902, at the urging of
local residents.
Ellangowan
This was the name given to his run by John Thain when he took it up around 1842. His
wife's name was Ellen.
Ellen Grove
Property developers have the
opportunity to suggest names for new subdivisions, and Ellen Grove was
one of these. It was named in 1952 after the grandmother of the
developer,
R.P.Spinks, who as Ellen Dobing had been a long term resident in the
area.
Enoggera
It seems that the Aboriginal name
Youggeraoriginally referred to the area around the mouth of
Breakfast Creek. Europeans applied it to the upper reaches of the
stream, but in the survey office the u was mistaken for an n so that it
became Enoggera. The name was first used of the creek. Then later for
the suburb. Some say it was an Aboriginal word meaning plenty of wind,
although Watson suggests that it is a corruption of
yauar-ngari referring to a corrobboree ground. The Aboriginal name for the area which is now Enoggera was
booloorchambinn, the turpentine tree (Suncarpia procera).
Ernest
Southport Junction was re-named Ernest
Junction after Ernest Stevens, Member of Parliament.
Esk
James Ivory and David Graham settled at
Eskdale. It seems that the property was named by the Ivory
family after their home in Scotland although there are at least four
rivers in Britain with this name. Its Celtic root was a word simply
meaning water.
Etonvale
The station was named by
Arthur Hodgson who squatted there in 1840 together with Gilbert
Elliott. Thomas Hall's stories were not always to be relied upon, but
he had a story that Hodgson and Elliott found a knife in an abandoned
Aboriginal camp that was stamped 'Made in Eton' and they took that
suggestion as the name for the property.
Eudlo
This Aboriginal name
refers to eels although it probably did not come from the local Aboriginal
people.
Eukey
This name for what was previously known as Paddock Swamp, suggested by W. A.
Petzler, is said to be a Chinese word for dog.
Eumundi
The first Europeans to settle in the area were Joseph and Eleanor Gridley who arrived out from England on board the
James Fernie, 24 January, 1856, with their five children. The family moved to the district in 1870 and called their property
Beniah. The district was known by that name until the railway
came through in the early 1890s. It was then that the name Eumundi was
chosen. Eumundi was an Aboriginal leader who figured in the story of
Eliza Fraser and her rescue from enslavement by an Aboriginal clan.
Stuart Russell, an early pioneer-explorer, called him a great fighting
man who was well inclined toward the whites. The Noosa River was, at
one stage, called Huon Mundy's River, a variation on the Eumundi name,
and a creek in the district still bears this
name.
Eurong
This Fraser Island place name comes
from yurong meaning rain or rainforest.
Evergreen
The settlement declined after it was
by-passed by the railway line out from Oakey, but the district retains the name,
a reminder of Evergreen House once occupied by Stephen Patch and the
Hurleys.
Everton Park, Everton Hills
Ambrose McDowall named his house after Everton, the suburb of Liverpool from which he came. Like other English
Evertons, this one derived its name from the Old English evfar, meaning wild boar, and
tun, meaning a farm or village. From the 1890s the Everton name
has been used for the area, but Everton Park saw its major development
around 1957 at the hands of Willmore and Randall. The name of Everton
Hills was officially gazetted, 1 August,
1972.
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