T E Bonney Reserve, Beachmere (Qld.)

Thomas Edwin Bonney was born in Tasmania. He and several of his siblings, including Askin Edward, moved to mainland Australia. Thomas and Askin settled in the Caboolture/Toorbul area where they took up land. Harriet joined her sons in Queensland, and until her death in 1886 lived with Henry Albert Bonney in Wickham Street, Brisbane. Thomas Edwin Bonney, the first homestead owner of Beachmere, died in 1907. As far as we have been able to determine, he did not marry and left no descendants. The family buried him in the same grave as his mother Harriet. THOMAS EDWIN BONNEY was one of the first settlers to take up the land which started the community of Beachmere. The town takes its name from his homestead