by Felicity McDonald | Jan 26, 2021 | Profiles
David Reid took up ‘Carraragarmungee’ station in September 1838. He was just 18 years of age. (1) (2) His father, Dr David Reid was appointed doctor on convict ships and made 3 or 4 journeys with considerable improvement to the health of convict passengers and with...
by Felicity McDonald | Jan 24, 2021 | Profiles
Lady Jane Franklin travelled from Melbourne to Sydney in April 1839 making detailed entries in her diary describing the scenery, plants, animals and the places they camped but most importantly, she wrote of her impressions of the indigenous people she met. Her diary...
by Felicity McDonald | Dec 19, 2020 | Profiles
According to JFH Mitchell, Elliot Heriot was in charge of Dora Dora when the station was attacked by blacks led by Merriman and Jackendebby. But the attack was unsuccessful as King George, a senior Wiradjuri man warned Elliot Heriot before the event giving the white...
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...
