The current name, Nindooinbah, has been adapted from the name Nindoomba or Nindooimba, recorded in the earliest government records, which may indicate the usual Wangerriburra pronunciation. Wangerriburra names persist in features in the Nindooinbah landscape, and in...
The Beaudesert pastoralists of the 1840s created family and land-holding networks which became influential in the history of Queensland’s pastoral industries, particularly the beef industry. In 1847, John Collins bought out William Humphreys who took up Wetherton...
Compigne also had an interest in the thoroughbred horse industry. In 1852, the thoroughbred, Plenipotentiary, was advertised as standing at Nindooinbah.10 Thoroughbred horses played an important part in the development of Nindooinbah in subsequent periods, and...
Respected as a beef cattle expert, William Collins intended to use Nindooinbah to fatten cattle for the frozen meat trade which he had helped to pioneer in the 1870s. He was also a co-founder of the North Australian Pastoral Company with his brother in law, Douglas...
‘Captain Towns sold the stations with 2800 head of cattle about 200 horses – six hundred and forty acres purchased land with a house which cost £3000 and other improvements and is worth £1000 more than £7400 sold to Ernest last Christmas; he does not pay any cash, his...
Further changes to the house were prompted by the Prince of Wales proposed visit to Nindooinbah in July 1920. Dods’ entry porch was replaced by a ‘tented ballroom’, usually referred to in subsequent decades as the morning room or the sunroom. A shorter pergola...
The main bedroom was always reserved for her. Mr and Mrs Persse used the adjoining bedroom and Margaret used the nursery bedroom with Miss Lucy Morgan, her nurse/ governess in the adjoining room. Beryl Persse was keenly interested in the garden. Photographs from this...
In the 1940s and 1950s, horses were kept on both sides of woolshed. Although the main drive into Nindooinbah remained in the alignment marked by the avenue planted by Gwendoline Collins, the fence-line on the western entrance and the entrance gates were moved further...
Margaret Persse married the well-known Australian artist, Patrick Hockey in 1983. Nindooinbah was valued in 1981 in order to finalise William Collins’ estate in September 1983. His heirs were Gwendoline Collins and her three daughters and one son. John Collins had...
Patrick Hockey came from a grazing background, having grown up on Abercorn near Eidsvold in the Burnett district, where many earlier owners of Nindooinbah had taken up stations. Hockey became a well-known artist, whose work is featured in major public collections in...