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| The ledgers also showed the dependency of those who were able to select land on or near //Maroon//. Ezra Harvey was one such who appears heavily reliant on //Maroon//'s stores as the following pages show:{{:ezra_harvey_20231019_133928.jpg?300|}} {{:ezra_harvey_ledger_p.jpg?350|}} {{:ezra_harvey_20250422_113029.jpg?300|}}((display, Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum, April 2025))\\ | The ledgers also showed the dependency of those who were able to select land on or near //Maroon//. Ezra Harvey was one such who appears heavily reliant on //Maroon//'s stores as the following pages show:{{:ezra_harvey_20231019_133928.jpg?300|}} {{:ezra_harvey_ledger_p.jpg?350|}} {{:ezra_harvey_20250422_113029.jpg?300|}}((display, Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum, April 2025))\\ |
| Ezra married Mary Ann Langdon in England in 1857 on her 21st birthday. They emigrated to Morton Bay,arriving 16 February 1858. Ezra worked on Maroon when it was owned by James Collins. One of their children, Jain Harvey, was reputedly the first white child born on Maroon. In 1870, Eliza was one of the first selectors of blocks carved from //Maroon// with he, Mary Ann and their children living in a slab hut with an earthen floor. Between 1858-78, they had 11 children, three of whom died in childhood. Mary Ann died on 10 February 1884 from heat exhaustion after she and Ezra had ridden from Maroon to Tamrookum Creek to visit her brother george Langdon and his family who were newly arrived emigrants.(( Information from display at The Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum, April 2025; Harvey Family re-union. From England to Australia (Booklet) 1984, courtesy Ross Drynan.)) | Ezra married Mary Ann Langdon in England in 1857 on her 21st birthday. They emigrated to Morton Bay,arriving 16 February 1858. Ezra worked on //Maroon// when it was owned by James Collins. One of their children, Jain Harvey, was reputedly the first white child born at //Maroon//. In 1870, Ezra was one of the first selectors of blocks carved from //Maroon// where he, Mary Ann and their children lived in a slab hut with an earthen floor. Between 1858-78, they had 11 children, three of whom died in childhood. Mary Ann died on 10 February 1884 from heat exhaustion after she and Ezra had ridden from Maroon to Tamrookum Creek to visit her brother George Langdon and his family who were newly arrived emigrants.((Information from display at The Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum, April 2025; Harvey Family re-union. From England to Australia (Booklet) 1984, courtesy Ross Drynan.)) |
| ===== First Nations workers ===== | ===== First Nations workers ===== |
| The ledger books that have survived from TLM-P's various properties indicate that First Nations people were normally not employed on a regular basis but rather paid on an occasional and casual basis, perhaps fitting in with their traditional obligations as much as TLM-P's needs. TLM-P recalled that at //Hawkwood//, for example, he employed First Nations people as shepherds including as least one women who he called 'Biddy'(p.45). Typically, they are rarely named (and certainly not given their First Nations name) and any payments are very low. //Hawkwood//'s ledger simply refers to 'Black Boys'. In //Maroon//'s ledger for 1867-68, for example, an entry under Tom de M. M-P, simply notes that in May 1860 he paid 'Blackboy' 5 shillings.((MLMSS 3117/box 8)) Similarly there is a reference in 1879 of one of the employed stockman paying 'Hughie Black Boy’ 17 shillings.((MLMSS 3117 Box 10, Item 2, pp.6-7)) Note that these payments were made in cash, the only viable option for an irregularly paid First Nations worker.\\ | The ledger books that have survived from TLM-P's various properties indicate that First Nations people were normally not employed on a regular basis but rather paid on an occasional and casual basis, perhaps fitting in with their traditional obligations as much as TLM-P's needs. TLM-P recalled that at //Hawkwood//, for example, he employed First Nations people as shepherds including as least one women who he called 'Biddy'(p.45). Typically, they are rarely named (and certainly not given their First Nations name) and any payments are very low. //Hawkwood//'s ledger simply refers to 'Black Boys'. In //Maroon//'s ledger for 1867-68, for example, an entry under Tom de M. M-P, simply notes that in May 1860 he paid 'Blackboy' 5 shillings.((MLMSS 3117/box 8)) Similarly there is a reference in 1879 of one of the employed stockman paying 'Hughie Black Boy’ 17 shillings.((MLMSS 3117 Box 10, Item 2, pp.6-7)) Note that these payments were made in cash, the only viable option for an irregularly paid First Nations worker.\\ |
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| ==== Employees at Hawkwood Station 1854-1858 ==== | ==== Employees at Hawkwood Station 1854-1858 ==== |
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| {{:1857_hawkwood_.jpg?300|}} A page from the ledger kept by TLM-P in 1857 showing he had 13,342 sheep. A. Brown is the overseer and it also lists, somewhat indistinctly now, eight employees.((MLMSS 3117/Box 7X)) | {{:1857_hawkwood_.jpg?300|}} A page from the ledger kept by TLM-P in 1857 showing he had 13,342 sheep. A. Brown is the overseer and it also lists, somewhat indistinctly now, eight employees.((MLMSS 3117/Box 7X)) |
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| 72 **Maēr** (German), shepherd or hutkeeper at £25 or £30 pa.\\ | 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:**Jemima Fraser** hired on 17 September 1858 as a nurse at £25 pa with a months' notice required. A nurse was needed as he and Matilda at that stage had six surviving children the eldest of whom was 10 years old. As well, Matilda would give birth the following month. \\ |
| 1 **Jemima Fraser** hired on 17 September 1858 as a nurse at £25 pa with a months' notice required. A nurse was needed as he and Matilda at that stage had six surviving children the eldest of whom was 10 years old. As well, Matilda would give birth the following month. \\ | |
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| In TLM-P's reminiscences to Rosa, he mentions that he employed three Aboriginal men and one woman (from the coast, not from the local area, one named Billy Hayes and another just referred to as Freddy) at //Hawkwood// as well as Ernest Davies, Sydney Ling a German doctor, and 'one or two others'. He wrote that 'We had a sheep station about 2 miles up 'Oakey Creek' where only a single Chinese shepherd was in charge of a large flock, indicating how difficult life could be the Chinese indentured labourers. //Hawkwood//'s ledger simply refers to 'Black Boys' giving no names.((pp.146-47))\\ | In TLM-P's reminiscences to Rosa, he mentions that he employed three Aboriginal men and one woman (from the coast, not from the local area, one named Billy Hayes and another just referred to as Freddy) at //Hawkwood// as well as Ernest Davies, Sydney Ling a German doctor, and 'one or two others'. He wrote that 'We had a sheep station about 2 miles up 'Oakey Creek' where only a single Chinese shepherd was in charge of a large flock, indicating how difficult life could be the Chinese indentured labourers. //Hawkwood//'s ledger simply refers to 'Black Boys' giving no names.((pp.146-47))\\ |