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 | | Rainworth, the name of the home of Queensland’s first Surveyor General, A. Gregory (later Sir Augustus Gregory) and subsequently the name of the suburb which grew up nearby comes from Raungwarth, a Scandinavian name used in England meaning a clean ford. |
 | | The railway siding put in, 1910, as the Sixteen Mile Siding, two years later was renamed Ransome’s Siding because he was the principal user of it, loading his firewood for transport for sale in Brisbane. |
 | | Queensland’s Rathdowney is named after the town of Rathdowney in Ireland, north-east of Kilkenny. |
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