Wilsons Pocket

Wilsons Pocket
Wilsons Pocket; Queensland
	Wilsons Pocket
Coordinates	26°07′29″S152°48′14″E / 26.1247°S 152.8038°E Coordinates: 26°07′29″S152°48′14″E / 26.1247°S 152.8038°E
Population	197 (2016 census)
• Density
Postcode(s)	4570
Area	18.0 km2 (6.9 sq mi)
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10:00)
LGA(s)	Gympie Region
State electorate(s)	Gympie
Federal Division(s)	Wide Bay
	Suburbs around Wilsons Pocket:

Last updated February 03, 2021

Wilsons Pocket is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia.^[2] In the 2016 census Wilsons Pocket had a population of 197 people.^[1]

History

The locality was named after Albert Henry (Shepherd) Wilson, (1845 to 1886), one of the earliest landholders in the area. Wilson was born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, and he immigrated to New South Wales on the "Bolton" in 1853. He married Mary Cahill at Proston station on 8 June 1869 and they had two sons. He selected Portion 1120, Parish of Goomborian on 20 July 1878 which was granted on 1 March 1883. From 1875 to about 1882, he worked at the Golden Crown gold mine in Gympie, but may have been farming his selection on Tinana Creek at the same time. He obtained a tin miner's licence in Herberton in April 1882 and died at the Mount Wells tin mine in the Northern Territory in 1886. Following Albert Wilson's death, the title for the property on Tinana Creek was transferred to his wife, Mary Wilson on 29 April 1887.^[2]

Wilson's Pocket Provisional School opened in 1924.^[3] By 1930 it had become Wilson's Pocket State School.^[4] It closed in 1962.^[5]

In the 2016 census Wilsons Pocket had a population of 197 people.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Wilsons Pocket (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
1 2 "Wilsons Pocket – locality in Gympie Region (entry 46400)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 27 December 2020.
↑ "GYMPIE". The Brisbane Courier . Queensland, Australia. 31 May 1924. p. 10. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2020– via Trove.
↑ "COORAN". The Brisbane Courier . Queensland, Australia. 4 January 1930. p. 19. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2020– via Trove.
↑ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0

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[Census2016-1] 1 2 3 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Wilsons Pocket (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.

[qpnl-2] 1 2 "Wilsons Pocket – locality in Gympie Region (entry 46400)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 27 December 2020.

[3] "GYMPIE". The Brisbane Courier . Queensland, Australia. 31 May 1924. p. 10. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2020– via Trove.

[4] "COORAN". The Brisbane Courier . Queensland, Australia. 4 January 1930. p. 19. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2020– via Trove.

[qfhs2-5] Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0

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