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"Nylets",
Union Street,
Toowong,
August 9th, 1941.
Mr. Sydney May,
Hon. Secretary,
Q.P.N. Committee
University of Queensland,
Dear Sir,
With reference to your request of 8th inst. regarding
the place names Toowong and Indooroopilly, I fancy my information
thereon was given some ? forms and not by letter.
Re. Toówong. According to Tom Petrie, the place so named
was the bend of the Brisbane River below the Indooropilly
bridge, i.e. the point of the peninsular now called Long Pocket.
Petrie also said that Toówong was the blacks name for the black
goat-sucker, by which, there is little doubt, is meant the
Koel cuckoo or Cooey bird (Eudynamys orientalis). The present site of Toowong was
given it name by a Mr. Drew, who, in early days, owned a block
a block of land which extended back from the Regatta Hotel to
some distance on both sides of Sylvan Road. A daughter of
Mr. Drew, Mrs Brennan, still has her home there.
Indooroopilly, which should Nyińdūrūpi'lly. According to
late Mr. David M'Connel, who owned Witton Manor nearby, the
place so-called was a small creek between his house and Toowong
Railway Station, and the meaning of the name, leech creek.
This information was given by Mr. D. M'Connel to Mr. A. M'Connel
of Clayfield some sixty years ago.
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