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| ==== Dalwood ==== | ==== Dalwood ==== |
| The first thing TLM-P needed was to gain colonial experience, a form of internship to learn the ways of the colony. He did so on a property Dalwood, near Maitland in the [[wp>Hunter_Region|Hunter Valley]], north of Sydney.((Introduction in Rosa Praed, My Australian Girlhood, Tom's copy; {{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282|Australian Dictionary of Biography}})) Dalwood House (pictured) {{ http://www.dalwood.org.au/assets/images/dalwood-house.jpg?300}} is now a National Trust Property, but located within the Wyndham Estate Winery - as at 2016, it was not open to the public.(({{ http://www.dalwood.org.au/dalwood-house.html}}))\\ | The first thing TLM-P needed was to gain colonial experience, a form of internship to learn the ways of the colony. He did so on a property Dalwood, near Maitland in the [[wp>Hunter_Region|Hunter Valley]], north of Sydney.(({{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282|Australian Dictionary of Biography}})) Dalwood House (pictured) {{ http://www.dalwood.org.au/assets/images/dalwood-house.jpg?300}} is now a National Trust Property, but located within the Wyndham Estate Winery - as at 2016, it was not open to the public.(({{ http://www.dalwood.org.au/dalwood-house.html}}))\\ |
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| How and why did he end up at Dalwood? The likely reason is his school network. Dalwood was owned by George Wyndham and his wife Margaret. Her father, John Jay, after business losses during the Napoleonic Wars, had 'conducted a school for English boys in Brussels'.(({{http://www.dalwood.org.au/founders.html}})) Was this the one associated with the Rev Drury that TLM-P had attended, or another one? It seems likely that it was this connection that resulted in him going to Dalwood. TLM-P was lucky as George Wyndham was generally admired: 'Respected for his leniency to his assigned labour in the early days and himself a hard worker in the field, George Wyndham considered himself mainly a farmer and pastoralist. He was highly respected within both the local and wider community.'(({{http://www.dalwood.org.au/founders.html}})) George Wyndham kept a diary from 1830-40, and Wyndham family letters have also survived, but these have not yet been checked for any contain a reference to TLM-P.((D. E. Wilkinson, Extracts from Dinton-Dalwood Letters 1827-53 , 2nd Edition. Sydney. Privately printed, 1964; G. Wyndham, Diary from 1830-1840. Mitchell Library.)) TLM-P was also lucky in encountering George in the 1840s and not Wadham Wyndham, who 40 years later in a frenzy of religious mania, slaughtered his entire family.((//The Bulletin//, 19 September 1887.))\\ | How and why did he end up at Dalwood? The likely reason is his school network. Dalwood was owned by George Wyndham and his wife Margaret. Her father, John Jay, after business losses during the Napoleonic Wars, had 'conducted a school for English boys in Brussels'.(({{http://www.dalwood.org.au/founders.html}})) Was this the one associated with the Rev Drury that TLM-P had attended, or another one? It seems likely that it was this connection that resulted in him going to Dalwood. TLM-P was lucky as George Wyndham was generally admired: 'Respected for his leniency to his assigned labour in the early days and himself a hard worker in the field, George Wyndham considered himself mainly a farmer and pastoralist. He was highly respected within both the local and wider community.'(({{http://www.dalwood.org.au/founders.html}})) George Wyndham kept a diary from 1830-40, and Wyndham family letters have also survived, but these have not yet been checked for any contain a reference to TLM-P.((D. E. Wilkinson, Extracts from Dinton-Dalwood Letters 1827-53 , 2nd Edition. Sydney. Privately printed, 1964; G. Wyndham, Diary from 1830-1840. Mitchell Library.)) TLM-P was also lucky in encountering George in the 1840s and not Wadham Wyndham, who 40 years later in a frenzy of religious mania, slaughtered his entire family.((//The Bulletin//, 19 September 1887.))\\ |
| ==== Rocky Creek ==== | ==== Rocky Creek ==== |
| Having gained colonial experience, TLM-P was appointed manager of Rocky Creek Station, in the [[wp>Nandewar_Range|Nandewar Ranges]], neatr Tamworth, in the Northern Tablelands of NSW.((Introduction in Rosa Praed, My Australian Girlhood, Tom's copy))\\ | Having gained colonial experience, TLM-P was appointed manager of Rocky Creek Station, in the [[wp>Nandewar_Range|Nandewar Ranges]], near Tamworth, in the Northern Tablelands of NSW.((Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa!// p.10.))\\ |
| {{http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0crDQ5lNqNg/VRecfAy2nGI/AAAAAAAABoA/8cyBEZ6AI-E/s640/22.Rocky%2BCreek%2BPastoral_small.jpg?300}} A contemporary view of Rocky Street Station by artist Mick Pospischil.\\ | {{http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0crDQ5lNqNg/VRecfAy2nGI/AAAAAAAABoA/8cyBEZ6AI-E/s640/22.Rocky%2BCreek%2BPastoral_small.jpg?300}} A contemporary view of Rocky Street Station by artist Mick Pospischil.\\ |
| The station appears to have been owned by the Pringles, but to date, no further information is known about the station, its owners, or how long TLM-P worked as its manager. Historian Gordon Reid states that, in May 1843, TLM-P met up with Leichhardt and they rode to the Moreton Bay district.((Gordon Reid, A Nest of Hornets: the massacre of the Fraser family at Hornet Bank Station, on the Upper Dawson River, central Queensland, 1857 and related events, Masters, ANU, 1981, p.132.))\\ | The station appears to have been owned by the Pringles, but to date, no further information is known about the station, its owners, or how long TLM-P worked as its manager. Historian Gordon Reid states that, in May 1843, TLM-P met up with Leichhardt and they rode to the Moreton Bay district.((Gordon Reid, A Nest of Hornets: the massacre of the Fraser family at Hornet Bank Station, on the Upper Dawson River, central Queensland, 1857 and related events, Masters, ANU, 1981, p.132.))\\ |
| ==== Rosewood ==== | ==== Rosewood ==== |
| Despite the sacrifice his mother had to make to give him a few sovereigns, in 1843 he had enough capital to acquire and stock a property, Rosewood at Moreton Bay (near present day Ipswich). From this stage he lived in what became, from 6 June 1859, the colony of Queensland.((PRIOR, T L M, Rosewood, Moreton Bay, 18/09/1843, http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/searchhits_nocopy.aspx?table=Depasturing%20Licenses&id=67&frm=1&query=Surname:Prior)) He was too late to be given a free land grant as those had ceased in 1831. Until 1836, the only land that people could legally buy was within [[wp>Nineteen_Counties]], an area bounded by Kempsey in the north, Batemans Bay in the south and Wellington to the west. From 1836, the situation of the large numbers of people who broke that law, called [[wp>Squatting_(pastoral)|squatters]], was regulated: from then they could occupy the land as theirs (regardless of traditional owners) for £10 per year. TLM-P became one of these squatters. When he wrote to the Ludwig Leichhardt in September 1843, he mentioned that he intended 'selling my station and believe I have already got a purchaser'. He had stocked it with sheep and horses.((TLM-P to L. Leichhardt, 27 September 1843, MLMSS683, pp.105-08)) For more on TLM-P's friendship with the German explorer, click on [[Leichhardt]]. | Despite the sacrifice his mother had to make to give him a few sovereigns, in 1843 he had enough capital to acquire and stock a property, Rosewood at Moreton Bay (near present day Ipswich). From this stage he lived in what became, from 6 June 1859, the colony of Queensland.((PRIOR, T L M, Rosewood, Moreton Bay, 18/09/1843, http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/searchhits_nocopy.aspx?table=Depasturing%20Licenses&id=67&frm=1&query=Surname:Prior)) He was too late to be given a free land grant as those had ceased in 1831. Until 1836, the only land that people could legally buy was within [[wp>Nineteen_Counties]], an area bounded by Kempsey in the north, Batemans Bay in the south and Wellington to the west. From 1836, the situation of the large numbers of people who broke that law, called [[wp>Squatting_(pastoral)|squatters]], was regulated: from then they could occupy the land as theirs (regardless of traditional owners) for £10 per year. TLM-P became one of these squatters. When he wrote to the Ludwig Leichhardt in September 1843, he mentioned that he intended 'selling my station and believe I have already got a purchaser'. He had stocked it with sheep and horses.((TLM-P to L. Leichhardt, 27 September 1843, MLMSS683, pp.105-08)) For more on TLM-P's friendship with the German explorer, click on [[Leichhardt]].\\ |
| | TLM-P and Matilda were now living in isolated conditions and needed to be reasonably self-sufficient. That included not only medical books but also at least one on the law.\\ |
| | {{:scan_20171014.jpg?250|}} This book, courtesy Sarah Godden, is inscribed, 'Thomas Lodge Murray Prior/ Logan River Moreton Bay./January 1845'. |
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| ==== Broomelton ==== | ==== Broomelton ==== |
| TLM-P went into partnership to acquire his second property on 24 September 1845. His partner, Hugh Henry Robertson Aikman((Hugh Henry Robertson Aikman,{{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282}})), had owned Broomelton since 1842, but presumably needed to share the load.(({{http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/searchhits_nocopy.aspx?table=Depasturing%20Licenses&id=67&frm=1&query=Surname:%}})). Broomelton was on the Logan River, 35 miles from Brisbane: TLM-P bought out Aikman's share of the property in 1850.(({{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282}})){{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282}})) He subsequently sold it in September 1853((Reid, A Nest of Hornets, p.146.\\ | TLM-P went into partnership to acquire his second property on 24 September 1845. His partner, Hugh Henry Robertson Aikman((Hugh Henry Robertson Aikman,{{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282}})), had owned Broomelton since 1842, but presumably needed to share the load.(({{http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/searchhits_nocopy.aspx?table=Depasturing%20Licenses&id=67&frm=1&query=Surname:%}})). Broomelton was on the Logan River, 35 miles from Brisbane: TLM-P bought out Aikman's share of the property in 1850.(({{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282}})) He subsequently sold it in September 1853((Reid, A Nest of Hornets, p.146.))\\ |
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| ==== Hawkwood ==== | ==== Hawkwood ==== |
| Information about the Hornet Bank massacre has been complicated not only by an unwillingness to acknowledge that it was a result of a war between white and black for the possession of land, but also by the unreliable recollections of Rosa Praed. As Reid (pp.iv,77) comments, Rosa in her memoirs((//Australian Life: Black and White//, London, 1885 and //My Australian Girlhood//, London, 1904)), was an unreliable witness, much more a novelist than an accurate witness.\\ | Information about the Hornet Bank massacre has been complicated not only by an unwillingness to acknowledge that it was a result of a war between white and black for the possession of land, but also by the unreliable recollections of Rosa Praed. As Reid (pp.iv,77) comments, Rosa in her memoirs((//Australian Life: Black and White//, London, 1885 and //My Australian Girlhood//, London, 1904)), was an unreliable witness, much more a novelist than an accurate witness.\\ |
| TLM-P sold Hawkwood a year after the Hornet Bank massacre. The cause was an outbreak of scab among his sheep: he was apparently popular with his neighbours as they are said to have gifted him some 900 sheep to help replenish his flock.((Reid, A Nest of Hornets, pp.214-15.))\\ | TLM-P sold Hawkwood a year after the Hornet Bank massacre. The cause was an outbreak of scab among his sheep: he was apparently popular with his neighbours as they are said to have gifted him some 900 sheep to help replenish his flock.((Reid, A Nest of Hornets, pp.214-15.))\\ |
| | (to do: Clarke, Patricia. Turning fact into fiction: the 1857 Hornet Bank massacre, M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia.) |
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| ==== Cleveland/Ormiston ==== | ==== Cleveland/Ormiston ==== |
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| (to do: Clarke, Patricia. Turning fact into fiction: the 1857 Hornet Bank massacre, M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia.0 | |
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