Francis McCrae Cobham - diary of trip to Upper Darling River and North-West New South Wales, 1863, with enclosures, 1862, 1881, transcribed by Jeanne Mackay Mims, 1996

MLMSS 6218

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1862-1881, transcribed 1996

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134803

Photocopy : MLMSS 6218

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - computer printouts, photocopies

Francis McCrae Cobham (1823-1902) was born in Barbados, educated in Scotland and came to Australia in 1839. In Melbourne he met up with his mother's McCrae relatives. He took up a grazing run, 'Burandudu', on the Upper Murray, and while there he married Catherine Synnot in 1851. Two years later, after the run had failed, he joined the Victorian Police. In 1863, while stationed at Swan Hill, he made the journey which is the subject of this diary. Cobham's great-grandson, Hadden Philip Mims, holds the original diary which was transcribed by his wife, Jeanne Mackay Mims.

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