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 ==== German migrants ==== ==== German migrants ====
-There are a number of German-sounding names in these ledgers, and others who were listed as German. This reflects the influx of Germans who settled in south-west Queensland mostly from the 1850s onwards. The 1901 census found that 38,352 Australians (of a total of 3,788,123) had been born in Germany. Of these, 13,163 lived in Queensland. Some of the possible or known German employees given below are\\ +There are a number of German-sounding names in these ledgers, and others who were listed as German. This reflects the influx of Germans who settled in south-west Queensland mostly from the 1850s onwards. TLM-P wrote to the Colonial Secretary from Bromelton station on 10 November 1851 'For permission to import' three families of Germans under the Regulations of 7 April 1847. Permission was granted but it seems that the families did not arrive until 12 January 1852.((Colonial Secretary's papers 1822-1877, no.? 33054,Queensland State Library))   
-   * **James Wilson**\\ +The 1901 census found that 38,352 Australians (of a total of 3,788,123) had been born in Germany. Of these, 13,163 lived in Queensland. Some of the possible or known German employees given below are\\ 
-  * **Kinbracker and his wife**\\ +**Kinbracker and his wife**\\ 
-  * **Eza(?) Woolfadl(?)** \\ +**Eza(?) Woolfadl(?)** \\ 
-  * **Andreas Schmidt and his wife**\\ +**Andreas Schmidt and his wife**\\ 
-  * **A. Yager\\ +**A. Yager**\\ 
-  * **Gaydens** listed as German\\ +**Gaydens** listed as German\\ 
-  * **Sydney Lynds or Ling or Linds** (likely Gordon Reid's Sydney Ling a German doctor)\\ +**Sydney Lynds or Ling or Linds** - a German doctor?((Reid, A Nest of Hornets, Masters thesis))\\ 
-  * **Henry Kann and wife**\\ +**Henry Kann and wife**\\ 
-  * **Henry Appel and wife**\\ +**Henry Appel and wife**\\ 
-  * **Henry Van Homerigh**\\ +**Henry Van Homerigh**\\ 
-  * **Andreas Rucker and his wife**\\ +**Andreas Rücker and his wife**\\ 
 +**Maēr**(German)\\ 
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 ==== Rosewood Station 1843-44 ==== ==== Rosewood Station 1843-44 ====
 TLM-P started an account book (ledger) for his first station, //Rosewood//, on 23 June 1843 ((MLMSS3117/box 6/item 4. Though it is catalogued as from 24 June, the first entry is for the 23rd)). On its first page he recorded items he bought at a Brisbane sale on 23 June. These items include necessities such as fustian trousers, blankets, guns and knives, but also indicates that he aspired to gentility with silk handkerchiefs and two tablecloths.\\ TLM-P started an account book (ledger) for his first station, //Rosewood//, on 23 June 1843 ((MLMSS3117/box 6/item 4. Though it is catalogued as from 24 June, the first entry is for the 23rd)). On its first page he recorded items he bought at a Brisbane sale on 23 June. These items include necessities such as fustian trousers, blankets, guns and knives, but also indicates that he aspired to gentility with silk handkerchiefs and two tablecloths.\\
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 4  **Andreas Schmid** paid £30.10.0 for 'passage'\\ 4  **Andreas Schmid** paid £30.10.0 for 'passage'\\
 5. **Yager(?)** paid £25 pa.(possibly A. Yager, listed as German, see below) \\ 5. **Yager(?)** paid £25 pa.(possibly A. Yager, listed as German, see below) \\
-6  **Achow** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\+6  **Achow** (or Achen?) see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list) and below at Hawkwood\\
 7 **Tan See (or Tan Sue?)** see above under Chinese indentured labourers\\ 7 **Tan See (or Tan Sue?)** see above under Chinese indentured labourers\\
 8 **Bundoo** see above under Chinese indentured labourers \\ 8 **Bundoo** see above under Chinese indentured labourers \\
 9 **Lye** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\ 9 **Lye** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\
 10 **Boon** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\ 10 **Boon** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\
-11 **H.? Davies** The entry is unclear but he was the likely person employed at £50 pa.\\+11 **H.? Davies** The entry is unclear but Henry Davies the overseer is likely given he was employed at £50 pa.\\
 12 **John Slack**\\ 12 **John Slack**\\
-13. **John Wolmsley[check sp]**\\ +13 **John Wolmsley[check sp]**\\ 
-14. number of shearers (p.40)\\+14+ number of shearers (p.40)\\
  
  
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 19 **Sydney Lynds** Possibly Reid's Sydney Ling a German doctor, see below; also possibly 'S. Linds' later in the Hawkwood accounts; Mr Sydney Linds was listed in 1856 as charge of cattle for £50 pa.\\ 19 **Sydney Lynds** Possibly Reid's Sydney Ling a German doctor, see below; also possibly 'S. Linds' later in the Hawkwood accounts; Mr Sydney Linds was listed in 1856 as charge of cattle for £50 pa.\\
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-The next ledger is also for Hawkwood station.((MLMSS 3117/Box 7X)) There is also a list of the shearers employed in 1855 including John Black who sheared 1600 sheep), 1856 and 1857. C. Daly and A. Rucker were contracted in 1856 and 1857 to build a kitchen with a shingle roof as well as 3 shepherd huts with two rooms 10x6 feet each, door and window. He also did business with a number of people and firms, such as John Powers & L. Hugham, carriers.Not all employees are listed, but some that were are:\\+The next ledger is also for Hawkwood station.((MLMSS 3117/Box 7X)) There is also a list of the shearers employed in 1855 including John Black who sheared 1600 sheep), 1856 and 1857. C. Daly and A. Rucker were contracted in 1856 and 1857 to build a kitchen with a shingle roof as well as 3 shepherd huts with two rooms 10x6 feet each, door and window. He also did business with a number of people and firms, such as John Powers & L. Hugham, carriers; Con. Daly, for shingles etc of new building; and Hughan & Smith. Not all employees are listed, but some that were are:\\
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  1 **Alexander (Alex) Brown** employed as overseer in 1856, paid £50 pa, later increased to £70 pa;\\  1 **Alexander (Alex) Brown** employed as overseer in 1856, paid £50 pa, later increased to £70 pa;\\
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 19 **Poki** (Coolie) see above under Chinese indentured labourers.\\ 19 **Poki** (Coolie) see above under Chinese indentured labourers.\\
 20 **Tinko** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list).\\ 20 **Tinko** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list).\\
-21 **Hughs**(?) 1855\\+21 **Hughs**(Hughan?) 1855\\
 22 **On**(?) employed at £35 pa, 1854.\\ 22 **On**(?) employed at £35 pa, 1854.\\
 23 **Ubi** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list).\\ 23 **Ubi** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list).\\
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 26 **James Morsan**(?)\\ 26 **James Morsan**(?)\\
 27 **Kaun**(Kann ?)\\ 27 **Kaun**(Kann ?)\\
-28 **Ruiker & Son** (?)\\ +28 **Ruiker & Son** (Rucker?)\\ 
-29,30 **Kinbracker(?) and wife**, 1855, £40 pa (combined wage) - see also above for //Bromelton//+29,30 **N. Kinbracker and wife**, 1855, £40 pa (combined wage) - see also above for //Bromelton//\\
 31 **G. Publes**(?) (Stockman)\\ 31 **G. Publes**(?) (Stockman)\\
-32 **James Dugan**(?)\\ 
 33 **McCoy**\\ 33 **McCoy**\\
 34 **Ubi**(?) 1855, 1856, 14/- a week as a hutkeeper. See above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list).\\ 34 **Ubi**(?) 1855, 1856, 14/- a week as a hutkeeper. See above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list).\\
 35 **Lewis**\\ 35 **Lewis**\\
-36 **James Dagan**(Dajan?)\\+36 **James Dagan**(Dugan or Dajan or Dagar?)\\
 37 **washers** of wool.\\ 37 **washers** of wool.\\
-38 **A. C. Thomas** Esq (earlier written as Thesmas Esq)\\ +38 **A. C. Thomas Esq** (earlier written as Thesmas Esq)\\ 
-39 **Mr J.B. Stephens**\\ +39 **J. Gregory**(?)\\
-40 **J. Gregory**(?)\\+
 41 **James Morris**, 1856, employed 3 months at £50 pa\\ 41 **James Morris**, 1856, employed 3 months at £50 pa\\
 42 **Lye** Chinaman, 1856, employed for 6 months at £35 pa, one months hutkeeping deducted. See above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list).\\ 42 **Lye** Chinaman, 1856, employed for 6 months at £35 pa, one months hutkeeping deducted. See above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list).\\
 43 **Morley** (?) B[ullock] driver\\ 43 **Morley** (?) B[ullock] driver\\
-44 **E.C. Davies**, 1856 - Ernest Davies who worked as a jackeroo for £40 pa; his brother Henry Davies was the overseer. \\+44 **Mr E.C. Davies**, 1856 - Ernest Davies who worked as a jackeroo for £40 pa; his brother Henry Davies was the overseer, hence he rated the honorific 'Mr'. \\
 45 **Munday** TLM-P wrote (p.59) that Munday 'came up to Hawkwood with a mob of cattle and worked well whilst he was at it and herded at the Cattle Station for a short time, but hearing some thing about his wife he went away and thinking him sufficiently punished I gave his discharge.'\\ 45 **Munday** TLM-P wrote (p.59) that Munday 'came up to Hawkwood with a mob of cattle and worked well whilst he was at it and herded at the Cattle Station for a short time, but hearing some thing about his wife he went away and thinking him sufficiently punished I gave his discharge.'\\
-46 **Kinker** (?), 1856\\+46 **Kinker** (short for Kinbracker?), 1856\\
 47,48 **Weip and wife**, he employed as stockman.\\ 47,48 **Weip and wife**, he employed as stockman.\\
-49  **Ganmies**(?) listed as a Coolieman, 1855. \ +49  **Ganmies**(Gannini?) listed as a Coolieman, 1855. \\ 
-50 **Bundoo** paid £50 pa\\+50 **Bundoo** paid £50 pa as shepherd and watch\\
 51 **Charles Hunter**\\ 51 **Charles Hunter**\\
-52 **Tam Ha**\\ +52 **Tam Ha** see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\ 
- +53 **George Weis** 1856, employed as stockman at £60 pa\\ 
 +54 **Andreas Rücker and son**, general servants at £30\\ 
 +55 **Henry Walker**, general servant at £30\\ 
 +56 **Dampe** listed as (Chinaman)employed as hutkeeper at £25 pa. see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\ 
 +57 **Peter Piggott Esq** 
 +58 **Sericold**(?) 1856 
 +59 **Cameron Esq**\\ 
 +60 **Benson Esq**\\ 
 +61 **John Powers**, shearer, 1856 (and other shearers)\\ 
 +63 **Yung** listed as Chinaman and shearer. see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\ 
 +64 **Mortlock**, washer , -? and wool presser\\ 
 +65  **G. Ellworthy**\\ 
 +66,67+ shearers, washers\\ 
 +68 **Godfrey Cott**, 1857, general servant\\ 
 +69 **William Wilson**, bullock driver and general servant employed at £45 pa. 
 +70 **Brady**(?) driving cattle\\ 
 +71 **Achen** (Chinaman) (or Achow?) see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list) and above at Bromelton\\ 
 +72 **Maēr** (German), shepherd or hutkeeper at £25 or £30 pa.\\
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 In his private journal for 1858-60((MLMSS 3117/Box 7X)), TLM-P noted another employee:\\ In his private journal for 1858-60((MLMSS 3117/Box 7X)), TLM-P noted another employee:\\
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