Coalstoun Lakes, Queensland
Coalstoun Lakes is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.[2][3]
Coalstoun Lakes Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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Population | 423 (2011 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 4621 | ||||||||||||||
Location | |||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | North Burnett Region | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Callide | ||||||||||||||
Federal Division(s) | Flynn | ||||||||||||||
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History
The lakes (from which the district takes its name) were named by local pioneer, Nugent Wade Brown, in 1894.[4]
Coalstoun Lakes Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a receiving office had been open from 1910) and closed in 1976.[5]
Coalstoun Lakes State School opened on 25 July 1910.[6]
In the 2011 census, Coalstoun Lakes had a population of 423 people.[1]
Name origin
The meaning of the name is not positively known but it has been speculated that Coalstoun is the corruption of an Aboriginal word Goanalganai.[2][3]
That origin is unlikely because the name 'Coalstoun' is a corruption of the word 'Colstoun', which was the ancestral home of the Brown family in Scotland. Colstoun is located south of Edinburgh and remains in the Brown family.[7] Nugent Wade Brown's father, John Brown (1787–1860), emigrated to the Colony of New South Wales and established a property named Colstoun near what is now Gresford in the Hunter Valley in 1838.[8]
According to Queensland Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing "The lakes were named after Coalstoun in Scotland by Wade Brun, manager of nearby Ban Ban Station." [9] There is no doubt that Nugent Wade Brown and Wade Brun were the same person.[10] His wife, Margaret Campbell-Antill, was an aunt of Major-General John Macquarie Antill CB, CMG.[11]
Geography
The Isis Highway passes through the locality from north-east to south, also passing through the town. The Coalstoun Lakes National Park is in the north-east of the locality.[12]
Heritage listings
Coalstoun Lakes has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
References
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Coalstoun Lakes (SSC)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- "Coalstoun Lakes (entry 7541)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- "Coalstoun Lakes (entry 47367)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- "QUEENSLAND ROYAL SOCIETY,". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 17 March 1894. p. 6. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- "Opening and closing dates of Queensland Schools". Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- "Colstoun". Colstoun House, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
Colstoun is also the Ancestral Home of the Broun Family.
- "Brown, John (1787–1860)". Obituaries Australia. 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- "Coalstoun Lakes National Park - About Coalstoun Lakes". Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing. Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
- "Brown, Nugent Wade (1841–1919)". Obituaries Australia. 14 July 1919. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- "Margaret Cambell-Antill". Geneanet. Renaud BROWN de COLSTOUN. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- "North Burnett Local Heritage Register" (PDF). North Burnett Regional Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.