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| As labour was scarce in the hotter, more isolated parts of Queensland, squatters like TLM-P supported schemes to employ cheap labour. They urged the renewal of convict transportation((Helen Gregory, 'Squatters, selectors and - dare I say it - speculators', //Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland//, XI:4, 1983, p.83.)) and encouraged the migration of Asian and Pacific Islander labourers to Australia. Maxine Darnell has compiled a list of Chinese labourers brought to Australia to work on a fixed contract; she points out that only a minority of these men have been identified. Court records account for an over-representation of men who fell foul of the legal system. Her list is at {{https://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/pdf/indentured.pdf}}. TLM-P is given as the employer of 19 Chinese men between December 1848 and May 1857 at Bugrooperia (Bromelton) and Hawkwood. For more information about individual employees, click on [[Darnell list]].\\ | As labour was scarce in the hotter, more isolated parts of Queensland, squatters like TLM-P supported schemes to employ cheap labour. They urged the renewal of convict transportation((Helen Gregory, 'Squatters, selectors and - dare I say it - speculators', //Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland//, XI:4, 1983, p.83.)) and encouraged the migration of Asian and Pacific Islander labourers to Australia. Maxine Darnell has compiled a list of Chinese labourers brought to Australia to work on a fixed contract; she points out that only a minority of these men have been identified. Court records account for an over-representation of men who fell foul of the legal system. Her list is at {{https://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/pdf/indentured.pdf}}. TLM-P is given as the employer of 19 Chinese men between December 1848 and May 1857 at Bugrooperia (Bromelton) and Hawkwood. For more information about individual employees, click on [[Darnell list]].\\ |
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| By 1854, TLM-P decided that he had to look to Brisbane and also further north for opportunities. He sold the lease to Bromelton and, as shown, bought considerable land in and around Brisbane((e.g. //New South Wales Government Gazette//, 4 August 1854, p.1679)). Also in 1854, he applied to select 640 acres on the west bank of the [[wp>Albert_River_(South_East_Queensland)|Albert River]].((Helen Gregory, 'Squatters, selectors and - dare I say it - speculators', //Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland//, XI:4, 1983, p.81.)) His most significant acquisition was a property called Hawkwood (its indigenous owners called it Naraigin) on the Auburn River, a tributary of the Burnett river (north of what is now the Sunshine Coast).\\ | By 1854, TLM-P decided that he had to look to Brisbane and also further north for opportunities. He sold the lease to Bromelton and, as shown, bought considerable land in and around Brisbane((e.g. //New South Wales Government Gazette//, 4 August 1854, p.1679)). Also in 1854, he applied to select 640 acres on the west bank of the [[wp>Albert_River_(South_East_Queensland)|Albert River]].((Helen Gregory, 'Squatters, selectors and - dare I say it - speculators', //Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland//, XI:4, 1983, p.81.)) His most significant acquisition was a property called Hawkwood (its indigenous owners called it Naraigin) on the Auburn River, a tributary of the Burnett river (north of what is now the Sunshine Coast).\\ |
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| For more see entry on Lizzie Jardine under heading Matilda and TLM-P's children.\\ | For more see entry on Lizzie Jardine under heading Matilda and TLM-P's children.\\ |
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| ==== Land dealing and selections ==== | |
| TLM-P's land dealings were extensive and it is near impossible to follow them all. As shown above, he started to buy urban blocks in the 1850s. \\ | |
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| The next table is from Angella Collyer who sourced it from the Queensland State Archives. It shows his land dealings in the 1860s.((Angella Collyer, //Rathdowney: federation history of an Australian rural border community// Rathdowney, Qld.: Rathdowney Area Development and Historical Association, 2001 p.128.)) \\ | |
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| |Leases 201-203| 16 November 1868| Portions No.1-3| Melcombe parish| 2,530 acres |\\ | |
| |Leases 371,372| 2 June 1869 | Portions No.5-6| Telemon parish | 9,863 acres |\\ | |
| |Lease 1129 | 8 September 1870| Portion No.4 | Melcombe parish| 674 acres |\\ | |
| |Lease 1506 | 19 April 1872 | Portion No.13 | Palenn parish | 325 acres |\\ | |
| |Lease 1522 | 29 April 1872 | Portion No.15 | Palenn parish | 1,000 acres |\\ | |
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| A total of 14,392 acres (5,824 hectares).\\ | |
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| TLM-P's son also made numerous selections, see [[thomas_de_montmorenci_florence_mary_m-p|Thomas de Montmorenci, Florence and Mary M-P]]. \\ | |
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| Angella Collyer found that in 1867, TLM-P leased Melcombe (it had 60 square miles available for pasture improvement; 16 square miles unavailable, "PP nil') and Heads of Logan (20 square miles available; 16 square miles unavailable; PP nil.) In 1869 he consolidated the two as 'one large property of 100 square miles' then in 1874 he separated them again, calling one property of 54 square miles Melcombe/Maroon and the other Palen. It is unsure, she states, if Palen and Heads of Logan had the same boundaries.((Angella Collyer, //Rathdowney: federation history of an Australian rural border community// Rathdowney, Qld.: Rathdowney Area Development and Historical Association, 2001.))\\ | |
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| In the 1860s, with governments resuming land to break up into smaller farms, landowners such as TLM-P secured their (leased) land by buying it freehold. TLM-P had been 'freeholding [i.e. converting to freehold] parts of his run, including 2560 acres on 16 November 1868 alone. In 1876 he allowed what was left of the leasehold to lapse or revert to the government.' From then on, Maroon comprised entirely of freehold land.((Angella Collyer, //Rathdowney: federation history of an Australian rural border community// Rathdowney, Qld.: Rathdowney Area Development and Historical Association, 2001 p.17.))\\ | |
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| Note: the Beaudesert Museum has numerous holdings relating to the Murray-Prior family, see __ BROKEN-LINK:[[https://beaudesertmuseum.org.au/main/images/BEAUDESERT%20HISTORICAL%20MUSEUM.pdf]]LINK-BROKEN__\\ | |
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| ==== Murray Prior Range ==== | ==== Murray Prior Range ==== |