Australian Capital Territory
Public Place Names 2002, No. 18 (Street Nomenclature – Gungahlin) 
Disallowable Instrument DI2002-192
made under the
Public Place Names Act 1989, section 3 (Minister to determine names)

I DETERMINE the names of the public places that are Territory Land as specified in the attached schedule and as indicated on the attached plan.

Lincoln James Hawkins
Delegate of the Minister

Dated the 7 day of November 2002.

SCHEDULE
PUBLIC PLACE NAMES 2002, NO. 18 (Street Nomenclature - Gungahlin)
Division of Gungahlin: Australian Industrialists and Aspects of Industry, Gungahlin Pioneers 
NAME
	ORIGIN
	SIGNIFICANCE
	
Boon Lane	The Boon Family

David Boon (1836‑1912)
Mary Anne Boon nee Gutteridge (1836-1906)

	Gungahlin Pioneers

David Boon arrived in the colony on the ship called the John Bunyan on 27 October 1857.  He and Mary Ann Plummer married at Camden in 1860.  
The couple lived in the Campbelltown area until about 1870 when they moved to Weetangera in what is now known as the ACT. David established himself as a farmer growing some of the finest wheat in Australia.
David and Mary Anne were leading members of the Wesleyan Church where David taught and acted as Superintendent of the Sunday School.  David was a member of the Ginninderra Cricket Club.  

Together they raised 10 children:
David William (1861-1925)
Lucy (1862-1960)
Arthur Levi (1866-)
Frances Mary Ann (1868-)
Eliza May (1871-1946)
Ada Ruth (1873-1951)
Frederick John (1875-1959)
Ernest Lliwellin (1877-1941
Isaac Walter (1879-1946)
Clement Edward (1881-1937)
	
Margrie Lane	Henry William Margrie (1861-)
 
Evalina Jane Margrie (nee Gale)
(1858-1938)	Gungahlin Pioneers

Evelina Gale, born at Bland Plains and Henry (Harry) William Margrie were married on 12 October 1883 in Queanbeyan, NSW. 
Henry was the teacher at Jeir and Bedellick Half-Time Schools in 1880 to 1882.  He subsequently taught at various other schools in the region including Demondrille, Collector and Tharwa.	
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