Individual Details

Baptism

Son James' birth certificate has him born in Dublin Ireland in about 1823.

Jade M Whelan and Nicole Bills have his parents as Val Whelan & Mary Pearson with no sources.

Bee Callinan and Nicole Bills have birth about 1834 and parents as James Whelan & Margt Miss (Whelan). Source is:
Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915
Name James Whelan
Baptism Age 0
Event Type Baptism
Birth Date 1834
Baptism Date 28 Jul 1834
Baptism Place St Mary's (Pro-Cathedral), Dublin city, Dublin, Ireland
Parish Variants St Mary's Pro-cathedral, Diocese Dublin
Father James Whelan
Mother Margt Whelan

Birth

Based on Sarah Anne's birth certificate.

Birth

Son James' birth certificate has James born in Dublin Ireland in about 1823.

Because he wasn’t literate he may have lost track of his age or reported being younger when he immigrated to qualify for assisted passage.

Birth

Based on James' age reported by his employer when registering the birth of son Thomas. (James probably lowered his age when applying for work.)

Baptism

Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915
Name James Whelan
Baptism Age 0
Event Type Baptism
Birth Date 1834
Baptism Date 28 Jul. 1834
Baptism Place St Mary's (Pro-Cathedral), Dublin city, Dublin, Ireland
Parish Variants St Mary's Pro-cathedral
Diocese Dublin
Father James Whelan
Mother Margt Whelan

DUBLIN (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation - ST. MARY, PRO CATHEDRAL
Baptism of JAMES WHELAN of N/R on 28 July 1834
Name JAMES WHELAN
Date of Birth N/R N/R N/R
Address N/R
Father JAMES WHELAN
Mother MARGT WHELAN
Further details in the record
Sponsor 1 MARGT MC CARTNEY
About the record
Book Number Page Entry Number Record_Identifier Image Filename
N/R 277 N/R DU-RC-BA-546662 st.mary's-pro-cath_mf_1826-1837_ba_0765

Occupation

Based on son Thomas' birth registration.

Occupation

Based on son James' birth certificate.

Marriage

NSW Reg: 1849/1859 & Qld Reg # 1859/C/56. The NSW cert was recorded when the Colony of NSW covered the whole of the eastern side of Aust. Aft the state of Qld was proclaimed, it created its own BDM records for events occurring in the new Qld area.
On 6 June 1859, Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent to form the colony of Queensland. A proclamation was read by George Bowen on 10 December 1859 whereupon Queensland was formally separated from New South Wales.

James occupation given as shepherd.
Death certificate has marriage location as Dawson, Queensland.

Coranga Inn was located upstream from the Cooranga homestead on the Boyne River.

Cynthia Berthelsen says: The Cooranga holding was large but I believe the inn was close to the homestead. The inn the Dog and Duck was on our Cooranga from 1852 to 1860. The Cory family recorded on certificate were here until recently but think all descendants have now left or died out. As you are most likely aware Queensland has two Boyne Rivers and the old homestead was on the bank of our Boyne along with a small cemetery plot.

There is a Whelan male who is perported to be a son of James & Anne who lived in Galah St, Longreach who married an Edna May ...
I can't find any recorded so have unlinked.

Residence

Probably Dykehead Station

Event-Misc

First name(s) James
Last name Whelan
Publication year 1870
Date 7 December 1870
Topic Stolen from his tent, Ravenswood, £85, principally in £5 notes on Australian Joint Stock Bank
Volume VII
Page 102
State Queensland
Country Australia
Record set Queensland Police Gazettes
Category Institutions & organisations
Subcategory Courts & Legal
Collections from Australasia, Australia

First name(s) James
Last name Whelan
Year 1872
Date 31 August 1872
License number 51648
Record type Records
Gold field Cape Rv., Broughton & Charters Towers
Type Miner's Right
Page 1383
Volume XIII
State Queensland
Country Australia
Record set Queensland Licences
Category Institutions & organisations
Subcategory Courts & Legal
Collections from Australasia, Australia

Residence

First name(s) James
Last name Whelan
Date 1 March 1873
Year 1873
Address Charters Towers
Letter code c
Volume XIV
Page 323
Reference 60
State Queensland
Country Australia
Record set Queensland Unclaimed Letters
Category Institutions & organisations
Subcategory Postal Service
Collections from Australasia, Australia

Occupation

It is possible that James WHELAN, being a shearer, was involved in the 1891 Shearers Strikes. Some of the leaders were tried and imprisoned on St Helena Island in Morton Bay. There is a record of a James Whelan being an inmate at St Helena Island Prison in the 1890s.

A State Library of Queensland blog says:
After several months the strike was ultimately unsuccessful for the shearers, with many falling on hard times due to a lack of money. Thirteen of the strike ringleaders were arrested and sentenced to three years hard labour at St Helena Island prison. The strike however would eventually lead to the formation of the Australian Labor Party. You can find more detail about the 1891 Shearers' Strike in Shearers On Strike by R.C.Sharman (1963 - Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland).

Will

First name(s) James
Last name Whelan
Year -
District Southern
Will number 3945
Queensland Archive reference SCT/P113
Microfilm number Z130
Item ID 741917
Country Australia
State Queensland
Record set Queensland Wills Index 1857-1940
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Wills & Probate
Collections from Australasia, Australia

Occupation

Occupation on death certificate

Death

Can't be the death on the Darling Downs due to drowning on 19 Sep 1896 aged 45 as this would have made him 8 years old when he married Anne Cherry in 1859.

Occupation on death certificate is Shearer.

The Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum, located near Woogaroo Creek, was run by the State of Queensland. It opened in 1865 and in the 1880s the name was changed to Goodna Asylum for the Insane.
The Goodna Asylum for the Insane, situated at Wacol, Queensland, was a State run facility.

On March 3rd 1945, the first body exhumed from Brisbane Mental Hospital cemetery arrived for burial in Goodna General Cemetery. Over the next 4 years approximately 200 bodies (names can be found here) would be taken from the Asylum cemetery and reinterred at Goodna. No records were kept in relation to the positioning of these graves on any of the maps held by the Trust (although 2 bodies were exhumed from Goodna Cemetery within weeks of their reburial).

In the early 1970's, hundreds of crude concrete grave markers transitioned to the Goodna Cemetery grounds and in 2006, after receiving Government funding, a Commemorative Space was built to memorialise the grave markers and the thousands of people whose final resting place is now unknown.  If you are interested in ordering a memorial plaque for a loved one, please contact us for further information.
 
One of the "icons" of Goodna General Cemetery is the "Headless Angel" monument originally erected by Atillio Costa in memory of his wife Theresa in 1922.  No further details of Theresa are available as her burial is not recorded in the cemetery's Register.  The head, forearm and wings of the statue have been missing for many years due to numerous bouts of vandalism within the cemetery.
 
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living" Marcus Tulliuis Cicaro HISTORY OF GOODNA GENERAL CEMETERY

Jade M Whelan has his death as 18 Sep 1896, Queensland, Australia but no source. Also has different parents.

Record set Queensland Deaths 1829-1964
Death date 08 Aug 1895
First name(s) James
Last name Whelan
Registration year 1895
State Queensland
Country Australia
Mother's first name(s) -
Mother's last name -
Father's first name(s) -
Registration number 1895/003234
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials
Collections from Australasia, Australia
 
{Queensland, Australia, Death Inquest Index, 1859-1897
Name: James Whelan
Death Year: Abt 1895
Inquest Year: 1895
Death Place: Queensland, Australia
File Number: 246
Item ID: 348833
Film Number: 91067
QSA Reference Number: JUS/N234
Record set Queensland, Inquests 1859-1897
Category Institutions & organisations
Subcategory Courts & Legal
Collections from Australasia, Australia

Queensland, Australia, Death Inquest Index, 1859-1897
First name(s) James
Last name Whelan
Year 1896
State Queensland
Country Australia
File number 380
Item ID 348844
Microfilm number 91102
Reference JUS/N245
Record set Queensland, Inquests 1859-1897
Category Institutions & organisations
Subcategory Courts & Legal
Collections from Australasia, Australia

Hospitals for the Insane.
THE ANNUAL REPORT.
In his report on the hospitals for the Insane at Goodna and Toowoomba the inspector of asylums. Dr. Scholes, says:- The number of patients on the official registers of Queensland on the 31st December 1896, was 1462—938 males and 624 females ;
and they were located as follow :—Goodna, 554 males, 358 females ; total, 912. Ipswich, 120 male-3 ; total, 120. Dtamantlna,
90 males ; total, 90. Toowoomba, 174 male*, 166 females ; total, 340. The numbers under care on the 31st December, 1895, were 1877 — 875 males and 602 females. The increase therefore during 1896 was 85—63 males and 22 females. This Increase is greater than last year, and is not to be attributed to any special cause, but is accounted for by the small number of deaths in all institutions.
There were admitted during 1896, 268 persons —173 wales and 95 females. Of these 223— 159 males and 74 females—were admitted for the first time, while 35 —14 males and 21 feales—had at some previous time been under treatment in a Queensland hospital for the insane.
The number of admissions for the previous year, 1895, was in all 240, so that the increase for 1896 was 28.
The proportion of insane to the population of Queensland on 31st December, 1896, was 3.09 per thousand, or one in 322 —or of males 3.64, or 1 in 281 ; and females 2.52, or 1 in 896. The estimated population on that date (computed by the Registrar-General) was 472,179 persons—264,613 males and 207,566 females. The proportion last year was 2.98 per thousand, or 1 in 334. The discharges during 1896 numbered 109, of whom 98 — 49 males and 49 females — had recovered, while the remainder were so far improved as to be able to return to their homes under the care of their friends. The recoveries give a percentage on the total admissions of 36.6, or on the number admitted for the first time of 42.
The deaths in all hospitals for the Insane amounted to 72, a decrease on each of the past two years, which were In 1894, 80 ; and in 1895, 95. The percentage of deaths on the average number daily resident, 1430, was 5.03. The percentage last year was 6.95. The death rate at the different hospitals for the insane was - Goodna, &c, 5.64 ; Toowoomba, 8.00.
The cost of maintenance of patients in Queensland hospitals for the insane for 1896 was as follows :—The total amount expended
during 1896 was £36,135 1s. 7d. The amount collected from friends, relatives, estates of patients, sales of produce, &c, was £2604 6s. 3d. The average number of patients daily resident was 1430, and the net cost, deducting collections, tec, £33,631 6s. 4d.
These figures show a gross cost per head per year of £25 5s. 4 3/4d.. or per week of 9s. 8 3/4d., and a net cost per head per year
of £23 8s. 11 1/2d., or per week of 9s. 2d.
The admissions, 222 in number, show an in crease on last year of 22, and call for remark owing to the increasing number of Asiaticsand other black races which are yearly admitted. This year there have been admitted to Woogaroo 4 aboriginals, 2 Cingalese, 6 Malays, 3 Polynesians, 1 Indian, and 5 Chinese. These people are very difficult to dispose of, as when they recover they are not desirable people to be turned loose in the country, and it is difficult to return them to their homes (except in the case of the Polynesians, who are always sent to their islands by the immigration authorities). There are now here, the accumulation of years—Chinese, 65 ; Indians, 6 ; Cingalese, 9 ; Malays, 8 ; Polynesians, 5 ; aboriginals, 4 ; negroes, 4 ; in all 91. I think something might be done towards returning many of them to their own countries, there are several steamers now. running regularly to China and India. The amusements have been more varied and numerous. The new cricket ground is now in good order, and daily practice and weekly matches have taken place. Football during the winter caused considerable amusement and interest. The fortnightly dances were regularly held ; concerts were provided by various companies of amateurs from Brisbane and Ipswich, to whom we are much indebted. A new library has been formed, which now numbers 300 volumes ; and I wish to thank many friends who have contributed by donations of books, periodicals, &c.

The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939)
Sat 9 Oct 1897
Page 687
Hospitals for the Insane.

Alt name

This spelling only shown on the Queensland marriage certificate. Probably a transcription error.

Alt name

Based on Sarah Anne SETTER (nee WHELAN) death certificate. Informant was Matron at Longreach Base Hospital, but unknown whether she was advised by family.

Alt name

On James Junior's birth registration