Peter

This sort of thing interests me. I'm trying to find one for Sydney, but the first one Google threw up wouldn't load.

Anyhow, here's a great one for SE Queensland. <-- URL

Enjoy!

Ceri

Just a few off the top of my head that I know without looking, or searching:
Petrie - after a brit named Petrie
Albion - it comes from Britain, ancient name.
Doles rocks - (pronounced Dollies by Australians.. which is wrong! and get's up my goat... it is prouncenced as in Dole with an S) after a scot who settled the place

Some towns Ipswich have a few Welsh names.. can't for the life remember the place that someone in work thought was an Aborigine name..lol .. I had to tell him it is Welsh. named after one of the coal mining towns in S Wales.

Peter

That'd be Ebbw Vale right? I've never heard Dohle's Rocks pronounced Dollies by anyone before. That's new to me. You sure it's a Scot name?; looks awfully Germanic to me.

Edit: Prussian according to http://www.ucaqld.com.au/~piula/Placenames/page20.html

Ceri

nope he's a scot.. ever been right down Dohles rocks.. at the front of the river.. there is a statue dedicated it to him.. he's a scot.

Everyone around me I know in Brisbane pronounces it dollies... oooh it goes right through me it does..lol
No it wasn't Ebbw Vale the place I'm thinking of.. I wish I could remember it now, the guy who said it.. isn't here ... I'll get back to you on that one.

Ceri

No - I'm wrong, I've just found this :
Johann and Catherine Dohle migrated from Prussia, 1863, and set up a timber business at Breakfast Creek. Much of the timber came from the Pine River area, and in 1903 they took up residence on land there purchased from Tom Petrie. In time, his sons, Henry and Johann Jnr, took over the business. They harnessed the power of the wind to drive a saw for cutting timber. They transferred their boat building activities to Dohle's Rocks as well. Later they went into growing sugarcane, pineapples and vegetables together with dairying.


. There is a statue dedicated to the man down at the river front right at the end of dohles rocks road .. I always thought he was a Scot for some reason. well I never

diddy

Carnarfon?

diddy

I know this is spelt wrong, but think this is how Aussies spell it?

Peter

Carnarvon?

diddy

Ta.

Writing more coz of ten character thing.

Quinkana

Abbotsford:

"Sir Walter Scott’s home near Melrose in Scotland was called Abbotsford, and the name was used, first for a land holding and then for a parish and for a road in the North Brisbane area to honour that distinguished early 19th century poet and novelist."


Zillmere:

"This was once known at Zillman's Waterhole, named after Johann Leopold Zillmann, one of the German missionaries brought out by John Dunmore Lang to establish the mission at Toombul, but who stayed on to farm in the area after it closed down. When the railway came through the name was changed to Zillmere by the Railway department."

Placenames of South-East Queensland: Abbotsford - Zillmere

Ceri

Caernarfon is the correct Welsh name for it.. you are not wrong with your spelling of it's correct name in Welsh ( except you should have had an E in there) .It's the original Welsh name for it.
Caernarvon and Carnarvon are the anglicised/English terms mostly used by anglicised people in the UK.. most towns and villages in Wales have two names.. one Welsh and one English .. sometimes the anglicised version takes preference depending on the town. Like Swansea. Most people call this Swansea and not Abertawe.
Put a F in a word and it b*ggers some people up ( One F in welsh is a V sound in English) . And this is the spelling ( the English spelling of it) they have taken in Aus

Mt Caernarvon ( Aus) has taken the anglicised version .. the v should be an F if they wanted to name it by it's correct/original Welsh name - Caernarfon.



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One for NSW - Swansea ( I used to live near there in Newcastle area) .. named after the original Swansea (Abertawe) in Wales.. I think there is also a Swansea in Tassie too. . It used to be called Pelican flat apparently in the 1800's then the name changed to Swansea ( the one by Newcastle) .

Jaykay

Found this website.

http://www.ourindooroopilly.com/oisuburbs.html

Peter

That's a good one too. The one for Sydney now seems to work.
And here it is

moneypenny20

Like you, I love things like that. Thanks, it has now been bookmarked and will no doubt waste even more of my time

Peter

I'll be tackling Melbourne next. Glad I could help out.