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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.(({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.))\\ |