John Hoolan
1842 — 15 June 1911
John ‘Plumper’ Hoolan (7A‑34‑2)
Hoolan was born in 1842 in Tipperary, son of James Hoolan and Margaret Kennedy. He married Ellen Lawler in 1871 in King’s County, Ireland and had two sons and two daughters. In a varied career, he was a carpenter in Bathurst, a miner in Charters Towers, a newspaper proprietor in Georgetown and leased a farm in North Queensland in 1896. Hoolan was the MLA for Burke from 1890 to 1894 and again from 1896 to 1899. He died in the Diamantina region on the 15 June 1911.
