John Flynn (minister) of the Aerial Medical Service was in 1928 from Cloncurry, Queensland. A museum commemorating the founding of the Royal Flying Doctor Service is located at John Flynn Place in Cloncurry. Flynn married the secretary of the AIM, Jean Blanch Baird, on 7 May 1932 at the Presbyterian Church in Ashfield, Sydney. He was 51 years old and the marriage reportedly came as a surprise even to his close friends. He retired and died in Sydney on 5 May 1951. He was 70 years old. He was cremated and his remains were placed under a large boulder from the Devils Marbles.
Duchess, Queensland Mairindi. In the 1911 census, the town had a population of 397. By 1915 the population boomed to over 1000. By the 1920s, the town's population dropped. At its peak and for a while afterwards, Duchess was home to four pubs, a school, a post office, a train station, and four automobile garages. Duchess currently has a population of 2 which consists of the owners of the now standalone "Duchess Pub". Duchess, Queensland Duchess is a town and a locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. The town is in the east of the locality. The Cloncurry Duchess Road