by Felicity McDonald | Dec 19, 2020 | Profiles
Lieutenant Colonel Henry John White (1777-1844) began a station on the Ovens River in early 1838. John Conway Bourke, the first mailman wrote of seeing Col White and his son Ned (Edward Riggs White 1817-1853) with their wagons pulled up by the river near the crossing...
by Felicity McDonald | Dec 18, 2020 | Profiles
In 1837 EPS Sturt was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Murray District, a vast tract of territory that extended from the left bank of the Murrumbidgee River in what is now New South Wales, to the right bank of the Ovens River in Victoria. He...
by Felicity McDonald | Dec 18, 2020 | Profiles
Dignum and Comerford were convict shepherds belonging to Charles Hotson Ebden who absconded from service to become notorious murderers and bushrangers on the Sydney Road in mid-1837. In the early part of 1837, Charles Hotson Ebden decided to establish a station closer...
by Felicity McDonald | Dec 18, 2020 | Profiles
Dr. George Edward Mackay was born in Caithness, Scotland, in 1811, Trove article about Dr George Mackay AF Mollison wrote in his Overlanding Diary that when he crossed the Murray River on 22nd June 1837 he met Mr Hamilton Hume who was accompanied by Mr George Barber...
by Felicity McDonald | Nov 24, 2020 | Profiles
Robert Brown arrived at the crossing place on the Murray River in mid-1838 (1) and opened a store and inn. Merriman showed Brown where to plant a garden and sow his crops above flood level and by April 1839 Brown’s corn crop was over 12 feet high. (2) According to...
