'Reminiscences of a pioneer. In New South Wales. By Edmond Morey, of Maryborough, Queensland. Extracted from the Sydney Mail of 30-10-'07 to 29-1-08'

DLMSQ 326

fonds

1907-1908

946541

1 volume of textual material - 32.5 cm. - typescript with manuscript corrections

Edmund Morey came to New South Wales from England in 1842. He was a bank clerk in Sydney and Maitland for two years before taking up properties; Neston at Gundaroo, Euston on the Murray River and Tintanallogy on the Darling River, New South Wales. He later became a police magistrate in Queensland

Describes the author's first years in Australia in Sydney, West Maitland and South-Western New South Wales in 1840-1850s. Including description of Sydney 1842, pioneering life, overlanding, aborigines, bush inns, station life, the beginning of steamer services on the Murray River by the Lady Young, a steamer up the Murray River in the Gemini with the Governor of South Australia Sir Richard Greves Macdonnell and Australian notables including Ludwig Leichhardt, James Tyson and Captain Sturt

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

Transferred from DLSPENCER 143