1179018
- TitleA record of life on a sheep station at Coonamble, Western N.S.W. ca 1880-1900
- Call numberPXE 1639
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1880-1900 - Type of material
- Reference code1179018
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description39 photographic prints (1 box) - 16 x 11 cm; 15 x 20 cm - albumen
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Terembone, and a neighbouring property Billeroy, were Crown leases in the Coonamble area of New South Wales. Billeroy was owned by John Colwell (died 1887) and Terembone by George and Jessie Lloyd who with their daughter, Ethel, in 1868. Terembone like most properties in the district were sheep farms and in the 1870s sheep were washed in a waterhole in the creek that flowed through the station.
About 1878 Jessie began writing for Sydney periodicals under the name of 'Silverleaf'. Her book, The Wheel of Life: A Domestic Tale of Life in Australia, was published in Sydney in 1880, based on her life at Terembone. She also wrote for periodicals and newspapers such as the Echo and Illustrated Sydney News. On 30 July 1885, after an illness of six weeks, she died at Terembone. George remarried and died in Sydney in 1921. After Jessie's death the property was managed by Joseph Siddins who married Ethel Lloyd in 1887.
There was an Aboriginal camp on Billeroy and they were periodically employed on Terembone working with cattle. Jessie Lloyd was very close to Sally who claimed to be the mother of Youie Jimmie, the King of Terembone.
References:
Australian Dictionary of Biography
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lloyd-jessie-georgina-4031 (Accessed 25.9.14)
www.coonambleshire.nsw.gov.au (Accessed 25.9.14)
Silverleaf, the story of Jessie Lloyd, pioneer writer of north western New South Wales by Joan McKenzie. Coonamble, N.S.W., J.M. McKenzie, ca 1986. - Collection historyThe donor's wife, Ruth Rider was probably the great-granddaughter of Jessie Lloyd. From research in "Silverleaf, the story of Jessie Lloyd pioneer writer of North Western New South Wales by Joan McKenzie", it states that Jessie's daughter, 'Ethel married Joseph Siddins. Their 3rd daughter, Isa, went to New Zealand, married and had one daughter, Ruth', p. 118.
- Scope and ContentCollection of albumen prints, photographer unknown, ca 1880-1900 of sheep properties, Billeroy, Coolbaggie and Terembone, between Coonamble and Dubbo, N.S.W. Prints have been mounted onto board and probably a part of an album.
1. Coolbaggie Creek, 20 miles from Dubbo
2. Coolbaggie Creek
3. Aboriginal grave near Gilgandra. Carved tree in background.
4. Youie Jimmy – King of Terembone
5. Sam Hull – Aboriginal tracker
6. Bush post office. [A bush mailbox on Terembone allowing the mailman to deliver from his horse]
7. Lunch on the Castlereagh, May 19
8. Beefwood Tree, Couth’s paddock
9. Breakfast table, 14 May
10. Breakfast. [Joseph Siddins at the head of the dining table at Terembone]
11. Scrub in Couth’s paddock
12. Selector on … paddock
13. Big Plain Dam
14. The Big Plain
15. Rams, aged 3 years, purchased from Warrah
16. Ram hoggets, station hut
17. Aboriginal camp
18. Aboriginal Australians on Billeroy Station. [Aboriginal camp near Terembone Station, Youie Jimmie wearing the crescent shaped insignia of leadership issued by the administration]
19. Aboriginal Australians playing card game
20. Aboriginal camp
21. Conn’s Dam, Terembone
22. Conn’s Dam, higher up
23. Stud ram hoggets, station hut
24. Stud ram hoggets, station hut
25. Home Dam, Terembone, near embankment
26. Oaks in scrub paddock, back of Home Dam
27. Men classing wool near river probably Terembone Station
28. Grape vine
29. Grave monument to Herbert Liddell Cortis, death 28 December 1885 (Carcoar, N.S.W.)
30. Sheep in paddock outside shearing shed
31. Farm beside river. [Terembone Station, the waterhole in the creek, buildings, vegetable garden and windlass for hauling water. In 1885 the homestead buildings were officially listed as ‘dwelling 10 rooms, kitchen 3 rooms, store, stable, cart shed, office, tool and saddle rooms, bachelor’s room, laundry and men’s cottage 4 rooms’]
32. Farm with outbuildings. [At the rear of the Terembone Station buildings]
33. Portrait of 3 unidentified men
34. Homestead with fence
35. 2 women, 1 man having tea in yard
36. Sitting room with woman reading
37. Horse and carriage with 2 women
38. Farm beside river probably Terembone Station
39. Farm beside river, man standing in boat probably at Terembone Station - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - Description source
Most photographs titled below image. Numbers 27-39 are titled by cataloguer.
Numbers 6, 10, 18, 27, 31, and 32 have been reproduced in "Silverleaf, the story of Jessie Lloyd pioneer writer of North Western New South Wales by Joan McKenzie". Titles in brackets are from this book. - Date note
Images are undated. Dates based on Lloyd's arrival at Terembone in 1868; Jessie Lloyd's death in 1885; the probable age of the men and women and their dress in images 35 to 37; and, Joseph Siddin's death in 1898. - Name
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