McNabb

DESCRIPTION

NameMcNabbAlternative NameMcNabDescriptionJames McNabb/McNab was born in 1834 in County Tyrone, Ireland. It is not known when James came to Australia.

James married Ellen McGettigan at Kiama in 1859.

Ellen McGettigan had arrived in Australia from Fermanagh, Ireland aged 2 years, aboard ‘Margaret’ in 1841, with her parents John and Bridget (nee McQuade) and brother Barney (Bernard) aged 4 years.

John and Bridget McNabb had several children in Australia;

Mary b.1844 (married Mary Kenny, died Toolijoa 1903)
Sarah b.1845 (married Irvine Martin, died Dunmore 1914)
Bridget b.1848 (died 1909, Rookwood)

James and Ellen McNabb reared ten children at the family farm ‘Seaview’, Swamp Road, Dunmore;

Bridget b.1860 (died 1940, Shellharbour)
George b.1891
John b.1863 (married Margaret McDonald, died 1930, Tweed Shire)
Thomas b.1864 (died 1936, Shellharbour)
Catherine b.1865 (died 1939, Shellharbour)
Philip b.1867, died 1916, Bundaberg, QLD)
James b.1868
Lucy b.1870 (married John Rankin, died 1944, Ryde)
Margaret b.1872 (married John Thomas Gleeson, died 1955, Wollongong)
Sarah b.1883 (died 1951, Shellharbour)

The McNabb’s were tenants of George Laurence Fuller and lived at his Dunmore Estate.

James McNabb died in 1899, a result of spinal injuries received through he overturning of a dray. He was buried at Albion Park Catholic Cemetery.

After their parents’ deaths in 1899 and 1900, James, Bridget, Catherine and Sarah remained at ‘Seaview’ farm for the next 37 years.

When James Jnr purchased 'The Blackbutt' (land Blackbutt Forest) they moved there in retirement. James Jnr took an active part in public life and served as Alderman on Shellharbour Council for 22 years. He was Mayor 1934-1937.

James Jr was member of the Country Milk Suppliers Association and the local delegate and served on the committee of the Primary Producers Union. He was a staunch advocate for the rights of dairyman. James was a great debater, and took a keen interest in local government matters of which he possessed wide knowledge. He was described as ‘honesty personified, a careful guardian of the interests of rate payers and dairymen whom he so long represented’, ‘his word was his bond and there was never a need for any written guarantee for anything he undertook to do’.

His friend Hector Fraser said of James ‘As one who has watched closely the careers of our public men, I say the country would be the better for it if we had more men of the calibre of Alderman McNabb.’
Information - 'A Jewel in the Illawarra Stella Maris Catholic Church', 1986.

External LinkMr James McNabb 1899Mrs James McNabb 1900Youth Drowned 1923Late Miss Bridget McNabb 1940Obituary Mr James McNabb 73 Years 1941Obituary Alderman James McNabb 1941Obituary Miss Sarah McNabb 67 Years 1951Estate John Emery McNabb 1988

Object

Illuminated Address George Couch

Shellharbour Municipal Council 1937

Shellharbour Municipal Council 1933

Place

McNabb Park

Seaview - Dunmore

Blackbutt Forest Reserve

Photograph

Seaview, Dunmore

Shellharbour Municipal Mayor James McNabb 1934-1937

Family

McNabb

Locality

Blackbutt

Shellharbour Municipal Council 1930.

Back l-r: Ald J W McBarron, Gabriel Timbs (Town Clerk), Ald William M Buchanan, W Darcy Dunster (Chief Health Inspector).
Centre l-r: Ald James McNabb (Jnr), Ald Con F O'Keefe (Mayor), Ald Thomas James, Ald John Burns, Ald George Langley.
Front l-r: .?, Hector Fraser.

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CollectionFamiliesLocalityDunmoreOrganisationShellharbour City CouncilPlaceSeaview - DunmoreBlackbutt ReserveRelated ItemSeaview - DunmoreMcNabb ParkMcNabb

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