BH 3.3 Early Landowners Benjamin and Robert Cribb

These early land owners seem to be well known to each other.  By now there are relationships and threads which are drawing them together.

Robert Cribb and his brother Benjamin Cribb both have a biography, and more snippets of information is becoming known with each new person being researched.

The land holdings of Robert Cribb are

Robert Cribb      Lot 17    72.5 acres    1st November 1851
Robert Cribb      Lot 18    86.3 acres    21st November 1853
Robert Cribb      Lot 19   179 acres      17th  May 1852
Robert Cribb      Lot 24   179 acres      17th May 1852
Robert Cribb      Lot 26    69.2 acres    8th June 1850
Robert Cribb      Lot 33    76.1 acres    1st March 1852
Robert Cribb      Lot 43   107.8 acres   13th February 1855
Robert Cribb      Lot 57     72.5 acres    1 November 1851
Robert Cribb      Lot 68    182 acres     20th August 1853
Robert Cribb      Lot 82     93.2 acres    11th May 1854
Robert Cribb      Lot 111  199 acres      2nd April 1855
Robert Cribb      Lot 112  199 acres      2nd April 1855
Robert Cribb      Lot 113  199 acres      2nd April 1855

He owned over 1700 acres of land.

Robert Cribb

Cribb, Robert (1805–1893)

by Margaret Bridson Cribb

This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, (MUP), 1969

This is a shared entry with Benjamin Cribb

Robert Cribb (1805-1893), baker and politician, and Benjamin Cribb (1807-1874), businessman and politician, were born at Poole, Dorset, England, sons of John Galpin Cribb, master mariner, shipowner and designer, and Mary, née Dirham. The family, long resident in the area, were rigid Nonconformists and foundation members in 1670 of the Poole Independent Church. J. G. Cribb was killed in action at sea in the Napoleonic wars. His widow opened a dame's school and apprenticed the two boys to merchants.

By 1832 the family was settled in Covent Garden, where Robert (b.7 January 1805) owned a confectionery and baking business and Benjamin (b.7 November 1807) manufactured blacking and sold household appliances and matches. At 22 Robert married Sarah Sanson of Wareham, Dorset, and on 28 August 1839 Benjamin married Elizabeth Brideson of Douglas, Isle of Man. Robert joined the Anti-Corn Law League and was associated with the work of Cobden and Bright.

Strongly influenced by the ideas for the development of John Dunmore Lang's 'Cooksland' the brothers emigrated to Moreton Bay. Robert, his wife, four of their five children and three relations arrived on 20 January 1849 in the first Lang ship, Fortitude. Benjamin, with his wife and three children and Robert's daughter Mary, reached Moreton Bay four months later in the second Lang ship, Chaseley.

Robert settled in Brisbane where he had a bakery for about six years but later acquired extensive land holdings in and around Brisbane through his commission and land agency. Lang's Nonconformist liberal ideas, tinged with radicalism in the English tradition, had a lasting influence on both brothers. Robert, tagged by the press 'Robert the Restless', skilfully used popular meetings and public agitation to win support for his policies. He was one of the leaders of Brisbane's so-called 'merchant group' and a founder of the Queensland Liberal Association which supported such parliamentary candidates as the two Cribb brothers. Robert represented East Moreton in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 18 June to 10 December 1859, sitting with the Liberal group. He worked for separation from New South Wales, but a separation without forced labour, whether Kanaka, coolie or convict. Elected to the first Queensland parliament, he represented North Brisbane in 1860-63 and East Moreton in 1863-67. On 13 October 1859 he became an alderman of the first Brisbane Council, holding office till  1861, although he had strongly opposed incorporation before separation was achieved.

Critics have suggested that Cribb's early motive was purely desire for office. If so, he was disappointed; but he achieved much through helping such organizations as the Liberal Association and from 1870 the Political Reform Association. He was an ardent supporter of the eight-hour day and instrumental in persuading some of the town's most important contractors to concede it. At 55, after his wife died, he married Sarah Walton. He died at his home in Milton on 16 April 1893, survived by three children of his first marriage.

Short of stature, thin, loquacious and contentious, he threw himself vigorously into political fights against any revival of convictism, large-scale Catholic immigration, state aid to religious establishments, but for manhood suffrage, National education and the separation of church and state.
Benjamin, who had brought goods with him, began business in Ipswich as a general merchant in 1849. From 1 February 1858 to 11 April 1859 he represented Stanley Boroughs in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly where, like his brother, he supported separation and opposed any revival of convictism. In Queensland's Legislative Assembly he represented West Moreton in 1861-67 and Ipswich in 1870-73, but his major achievements lay in the economic and social development of Ipswich. Although he opposed its incorporation as a municipality, he later served several terms as an alderman. His wife died in 1852 and next year he married Clarissa, sister of John Clarke Foote, who became his business partner.

Benjamin Cribb did much to found the Moreton Bay Immigration and Land Co., incorporated by private statute in December 1855 to promote immigration, buy land and resell it for cotton growing. Shares were £25 each and total capital was set at £1,000,000. The twenty-nine original shareholders included Lang, the Cribb brothers and J. C. Foote. Though directors' meetings were held, the company did not seem to flourish and it was largely left to Benjamin, through Cribb & Foote, to promote cotton growing in West Moreton. From 1862, helped by government provision of a free land bonus for cotton exports, the firm financed farmers and built ginneries at Fernvale and Churchbank.

In one good year seven thousand bales were exported. The cotton industry in Queensland declined after the American civil war but Cribb & Foote continued to expand as a merchant banking house. In 1863 a German immigrant, Jacob Born, was employed as the firm's agent to the local German farmers; for long he attended all Ipswich Land Court sittings to help farmers in difficulty with their rents.
Benjamin Cribb died on 11 March 1874 at Ipswich, survived by ten children from his two marriages. Two sons, Thomas Bridson and James Clarke, sat in parliament, the former being treasurer in the Philp ministry in 1901-03. They and other descendants of the founding partners continued to guide the expansion of Cribb & Foote.

Benjamin Cribb

Benjamin Cribb    Lot 1     117.2 acres  30 August 1855
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 16     86.3 acres  21st November 1853
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 17     86.3 acres  21st November 1853
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 31   118.3 acres  31st October 1855
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 73    90.7 acres   11th May 1854
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 77   104.5 acres  15th March 1855
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 78   104.5 acres  15th March 1855
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 90     89.6 acres  11th May 1854
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 91     89.6 acres  11th May 1854
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 111   89.6 acres   11th May 1854
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 114   90.7 acres   11th May 1854
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 122   94.3 acres   1st June 1854
Benjamin Cribb    Lot 145   94.3 acres   1st June 1854

A total of over 1,100 acres of land.

Cribb, Benjamin (1807–1874)

by Margaret Bridson Cribb

This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, (MUP), 1969

This is a shared entry with Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb (1805-1893), baker and politician, and Benjamin Cribb (1807-1874), businessman and politician, were born at Poole, Dorset, England, sons of John Galpin Cribb, master mariner, shipowner and designer, and Mary, née Dirham.

The family, long resident in the area, were rigid Nonconformists and foundation members in 1670 of the Poole Independent Church.

 J. G. Cribb was killed in action at sea in the Napoleonic wars. His widow opened a dame's school and apprenticed the two boys to merchants. By 1832 the family was settled in Covent Garden, where Robert (b.7 January 1805) owned a confectionery and baking business and Benjamin (b.7 November 1807) manufactured blacking and sold household appliances and matches.

At 22 Robert married Sarah Sanson of Wareham, Dorset, and on 28 August 1839 Benjamin married Elizabeth Brideson of Douglas, Isle of Man. Robert joined the Anti-Corn Law League and was associated with the work of Cobden and Bright. Strongly influenced by the ideas for the development of John Dunmore Lang's 'Cooksland' the brothers emigrated to Moreton Bay. Robert, his wife, four of their five children and three relations arrived on 20 January 1849 in the first Lang ship, Fortitude. Benjamin, with his wife and three children and Robert's daughter Mary, reached Moreton Bay four months later in the second Lang ship, Chaseley.

Robert settled in Brisbane where he had a bakery for about six years but later acquired extensive land holdings in and around Brisbane through his commission and land agency. Lang's Nonconformist liberal ideas, tinged with radicalism in the English tradition, had a lasting influence on both brothers. Robert, tagged by the press 'Robert the Restless', skilfully used popular meetings and public agitation to win support for his policies. He was one of the leaders of Brisbane's so-called 'merchant group' and a founder of the Queensland Liberal Association which supported such parliamentary candidates as the two Cribb brothers.

 Robert represented East Moreton in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 18 June to 10 December 1859, sitting with the Liberal group. He worked for separation from New South Wales, but a separation without forced labour, whether Kanaka, coolie or convict. Elected to the first Queensland parliament, he represented North Brisbane in 1860-63 and East Moreton in 1863-67. On 13 October 1859 he became an alderman of the first Brisbane Council, holding office till 1861, although he had strongly opposed incorporation before separation was achieved.

Critics have suggested that Cribb's early motive was purely desire for office. If so, he was disappointed; but he achieved much through helping such organizations as the Liberal Association and from 1870 the Political Reform Association. He was an ardent supporter of the eight-hour day and instrumental in persuading some of the town's most important contractors to concede it. At 55, after his wife died, he married Sarah Walton. He died at his home in Milton on 16 April 1893, survived by three children of his first marriage.

Short of stature, thin, loquacious and contentious, he threw himself vigorously into political fights against any revival of convictism, large-scale Catholic immigration, state aid to religious establishments, but for manhood suffrage, National education and the separation of church and state.
Benjamin, who had brought goods with him, began business in Ipswich as a general merchant in 1849.

From 1 February 1858 to 11 April 1859 he represented Stanley Boroughs in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly where, like his brother, he supported separation and opposed any revival of convictism. In Queensland's Legislative Assembly he represented West Moreton in 1861-67 and Ipswich in 1870-73, but his major achievements lay in the economic and social development of Ipswich. Although he opposed its incorporation as a municipality, he later served several terms as an alderman. His wife died in 1852 and next year he married Clarissa, sister of John Clarke Foote, who became his business partner.

Benjamin Cribb did much to found the Moreton Bay Immigration and Land Co., incorporated by private statute in December 1855 to promote immigration, buy land and resell it for cotton growing.

Shares were £25 each and total capital was set at £1,000,000. The twenty-nine original shareholders included Lang, the Cribb brothers and J. C. Foote.

Though directors' meetings were held, the company did not seem to flourish and it was largely left to Benjamin, through Cribb & Foote, to promote cotton growing in West Moreton. From 1862, helped by government provision of a free land bonus for cotton exports, the firm financed farmers and built ginneries at Fernvale and Churchbank. In one good year seven thousand bales were exported. The cotton industry in Queensland declined after the American civil war but Cribb & Foote continued to expand as a merchant banking house. In 1863 a German immigrant, Jacob Born, was employed as the firm's agent to the local German farmers; for long he attended all Ipswich Land Court sittings to help farmers in difficulty with their rents.

Benjamin Cribb died on 11 March 1874 at Ipswich, survived by ten children from his two marriages. Two sons, Thomas Bridson and James Clarke, sat in parliament, the former being treasurer in the Philp ministry in 1901-03. They and other descendants of the founding partners continued to guide the expansion of Cribb & Foote.

BH 3.2 Early Landowners Tom Dowse

Thomas Dowse

Thomas Dowse owned a huge portfolio all over Brisbane including these in the Sandgate and North Brisbane areas.


Thomas Dowse      Lot 8    170 acres      27 December 1845
Thomas Dowse      Lot 10  107.8 acres   16 April 1855
Thomas Dowse      Lot 11  107.8  acres  16 April 1855
Thomas Dowse      Lot 53  182 acres      23 December 1853
Thomas Dowse      Lot 54  182 acres      23 December 1853
Thomas Dowse      Lot 63   90.7 acres    11 May 1854
Thomas Dowse      Lot 168  96.5 acres    2 June 1854

 In 1853 there was a sale of town lots on Cabbage Tree Head. The sale attracted Thomas Dowse, entrepreneur, auctioneer and a future town clerk of Brisbane, who became a forceful advocate of Sandgate until his death in 1885.

By 1858 there were a native police encampment and a hotel at Sandgate. Signal Row, Shorncliffe, was used to receive messages from passing ships. Little else was added until a bridge was opened across Cabbage Tree Creek in 1865 and roads were improved. A school was opened in 1874. In 1880, when Sandgate had about 500 people, it was proclaimed a town by severance from Nundah shire, and a Church of England was opened. In 1882 Sandgate was connected by railway to Brisbane, enabling it to become a destination for beach bathers and excursionists. Its population trebled during 1881-91. 

The census records of the Suburb show the population and how quickly it increased. 

Sandgate & Shorncliffe	1871	132
	1881	555
	1891	1756

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Thomas Dowse

As a former convict his rise and worth in the Colony is best described in the following passages.

So many of the original convicts overcame the obstacles of their beginnings, including Tom Dowse, sent to Australia at the age of 14, 

(Town Clerk of Brisbane and convict)

"The writer's recollections of the days of Auld Lang Syne, dates back to the year 1827 – when a boy in his teens, he landed upon the shores of Port Jackson, in the despised colony of New South Wales – more familiarly known in the Old Country as Botany Bay." – Thomas Dowse's memoirs OM79-68/17

(Image available from State Library of Queensland, Neg. 63310)

 

Born:	1809, Hackney, England
Convicted:	16 September 1824 in Middlesex
Sentence:	Transportation for life (originally sentenced to death)
Ship:	Florentia
Transported:	Arrived in New South Wales on 3 January 1828
Died:	9 November 1885 in Milton, Brisbane. Buried in Toowong Cemetery.
Notes:	Ticket of Leave issued on 6 April 1836 Conditional Pardon issued in 1839

"Perhaps no one in Brisbane had a greater horror of the degrading convict system than Mr Dowse" – The Queenslander, 7 August 1909, p.19

THE LATE MR DOWSE

By An Old Friend

Yesterday, in early morning, at his residence, Milton, there quietly passed away from amongst us, at the ripe age of 75, Mr. Thomas Dowse.  When the present Queensland was Moreton Bay, he was always in the front of every political movement, and indefatigable in co-operating to achieve our separation from New South Wales.  With very scanty advantages of education, his natural intelligence stood him in good stead.  For some years he was the unknown correspondent in Brisbane to the Sydney Morning Herald, and was a free and fluent writer on passing topics, while his energy never failed him in his efforts to promote the general good.

For a long time he has lived privately, but there are many who will hear of his decease with regret.  With him passes into oblivion a rich store of colonial experiences and reminiscences, which it could be wished could have been published.  Latterly his eyesight almost completely failed, and this was the sorest privation possible, for his interest in current events never lost its edge.  Many who never knew him are unaware of the labour, toilsome and unacknowledged, which Mr. Dowse cheerfully endured when in the prime of life, with no other aim than the progress and welfare of this colony.

He was singularly disinterested, in fact, far too much so for the advancement of his own personal interests.  Though he has gone, the work he helped to do abides, and we daily enjoy social, municipal, and political privileges and advantages, which, if we searched into their origin, we should find associated with the name of Thomas Dowse.  His private character was unblemished, and he bequeaths to a widow and family – not much money, certainly – but the memory of a husband and father which they may worthily and truthfully cherish and revere.

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Biography of Thomas Dowse, convict Queenslander

Transcribed from the newspaper The Queenslander, 7 August 1909, p.19

FIFTIES FIGHTERS

THOMAS DOWSE.

Mr. Dowse arrived in Brisbane six years before the introduction of Dr. Lang's immigrants, having come from Sydney in 1843. Perhaps no one in Brisbane had a greater horror of the degrading convict system than Mr. Dowse, and he worked to obtain the complete cessation of the inhuman trade. Many of the public meetings held to protest against transportation took part in his little auction mart in Queen-street.

Under the nom de plume of "Old Tom," he was a frequent contributor to the "Courier," in the Sixties, and he has described in graphic terms the demoralising scenes that took place in the archway of the old convict barracks, in Queen-street, where men were strapped to the triangles and publicly flogged.

He had heard the shrieks and groans, and the horrible curses of the victims, as the lash cut pieces of flesh from quivering backs, and has told us how he protested to the authorities against public flagellations, but without avail. Mr. Dowse, on one occasion was reported to have been bailed up in a hut in Sandgate, by a number of blacks belonging to the notorious Joondoobarrie tribe, from Bribie Island.

This was before the days of glass windows in the pretty little seaside township; the opening that served as a window was covered by a thick wooden shutter, which fitted into the slab wall like a hatchway. The hut was therefore spear proof, and he escaped. Mr. Dowse was the first town clerk of Brisbane Municipal Council.

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Memorial of Thomas Dowse

This memorial was written by Thomas Dowse to Governor Gipps on 15 September 1838 requesting the mitigation of his sentence.

To His Excellency Sir
George Gipps C.B.
Governor in Chief &c &c

The respectful memorial of Thomas Dowse
I humbly maketh known,

That Fourteen years has this day elapsed since memorialist was at the early age of 14 years, sentenced to Transportation for Life, and pursuant to sentence was sent to this Colony where he arrived on the 2nd of January 1828, by the Ship Florentia (1), and was immediately after arrival placed in the Office of the Harbour Master where memorialist still remains.

That memorialist after serving the usual probationary period of Eight years, received a Ticket of Leave, and has married a young woman a native of the Colony by whom he has Two Children, both Boys, his mother an aged woman has also joined him in this Colony and is depending upon him for support.

Memorialist is induced to hope that after Fourteen years, continued good conduct without one single fault being charged against him, and the earnest desire memorialist has always evinced to atone for his one youthful error, that altho' the specified time has not elapsed since obtaining his Ticket of Leave, to entitle memo' to a Conditional Pardon, yet he humbly prays your Excellency to take into consideration the fact of his having been detained on board the Hulk in England; for Three years, and his having been Eleven years in the one situation, with every satisfaction to the Head of the Department (John Nicholson Esq) to whom he begs to refer,

That your Excellency will consider him deserving of being recommended to Her Most gracious Majesty for a mitigation of sentence, which will be a source of joy to an aged mother, and an inestimable blessing to Memorialist and family

And for which your Memorialist will for ever pray

Thomas Dowse
Assistant Clerk in the Office
of the Harbour Master
Sydney 15 Sept 1838
Letter 38/9729

This transcription has been published with the kind permission of State Records New South Wales who are the custodians of the original documents. A copy of the original can be viewed at the State Library of Queensland on microfilm.

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Dowse Lagoon


My memories of the Lagoon, were of an abundance of waterfowls strutting around the edges, the ducks swimming among the weeds, the turtles that popped their heads out for a feed, and it was a place that our children loved to visit, when we went to Sandgate to shop.   However over time there were many occasions when the waters receded.

This migration often occurs en masse, much to the amazement and consternation of local people. In 2003, residents rushed to rescue turtles fleeing Dowse Lagoon, Sandgate in inner city Brisbane which - succumbing to a prolonged drought - had almost dried up for the first time in 50 years. As water levels plunged, turtles abandoned the sticky mud and began trying to cross busy streets surrounding the wetland in an attempt to find water. About 500 turtles were rescued and relocated to other waterways around the city. Arthur Georges says turtles have also been on the march around the eastern states of Australia, as rains return to some drought-affected areas.

DROUGHT and human error have turned Sandgate's former wildlife-rich Dowse Lagoon into a mere puddle.

But there are hopes a Brisbane City Council plan to rehabilitate the lagoon will attract wildlife back to the once picturesque area.

Fifth-generation Sandgate resident Laurie Jeays believes changes to drainage, combined with the drought, have caused the lagoon to dry out faster than ever before.

• ALEXANDRA KOSZO
• THE COURIER-MAIL
• DECEMBER 01, 2006

BH 3.1 Bald Hills Early Landowners From the township to the Wetlands

The next section of the lands were owned by Bridges Gray Jeays Buckby Cameron  Fahey Harrison

John Bridges owned the land where the township of Bald Hills is today. 

   

The road to the station from Bracken Ridge is an extension of Barbour Road, it used to be just an overgrown path, with a tunnel under the highway.   

John Bridges

According to the Elector List of 1856, one John Bridges was eligible to vote.  He resided in Queen Street and earnt £100 per annum.

AMENDED LIST OF ELECTORS FOR THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF THE STANLEY

The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 - 1861) Saturday 16 February 1856 p 2 Detailed Lists, Results, Guides  ... Brown David Brown John Brewster Wm Brown Wm Brookes John Bridges Alex Brown Henry Brown Daniel Brian ... AMENDED LIST OF ELECTORS FOR THE ELEC

He was the Manager of the Bank of New South Wales

His property was sold by Robert Cribb, and he was making plans to leave Brisbane.  As a bank manager he fitted the profile of a speculator, and he had an association with Robert Cribb.

The was a John Bridges who was a Wool and Produce Agent in Sydney

North of John Bridges' land was lot 27, owned by Janet Gray. 

Janet Gray was the daughter of  William Stewart and Margaret Livingstone.  Janet was born 23rd December 1814 and was baptised on 26th December 1814.  

She arrived in Australia on 17th January 1842 on board the "Ann Milne".   She came from Logierait, in Perthshire in Scotland.    Janet died in 1900, in Brisbane  

She married Thomas Gray in 1845 in New South Wales.  

Thomas Gray was born around 1817, the son of Roderick Gray and Anne Young. 

 He also arrived on 17th January 1842, on the Ann Milne, from Scotland.   He died 19th January 1877, and is buried at Toowong Cemetery in Brisbane.

Initially Thomas Gray was a stockman, in the Wide Bay area, but soon established his bootmaking business in George Street Brisbane.

Along with John Stewart, and others, the Scots on the Ann Milne, were known as The Black Isle contingent.

Thomas Gray purchased Lot 26, next to his wife's land, on 22nd January 1857, and may have persuaded his brother-in-law John Stewart to move into the area. 

Thomas Gray won a prize for his crops, another won a prize for wine!





His brother in law John Stewart was an executor of his will.




 But at the time, there was a severe problem with the local aboriginals, and it was reported that it was "too dangerous" to travel into Sandgate.

At the time, William Loudon, who owned huge tracts of land, was clearing land at Sandgate, using about 20 men, and the lure was cotton growing.   A prominent resident and politician, George Raff was encouraging the growing of agricultural crops, including sugar cane and cotton.   George was another Scottish immigrant.

....Raff returned to Sydney and in January 1851 moved to Brisbane, probably representing Lamb, Parbury & Co. but soon established George Raff & Co. He also founded the Queensland Mercantile and Agency Co. and in 1861 became a director of the Queensland Steam Navigation Co. The direct wool trade between Brisbane and London was mainly due to his efforts. At Morayfield plantation near Caboolture he experimented with sugar and other crops and contributed to a prize for commercial sugar production. He employed Kanaka labour but was commended for his treatment of the men by Rev. John Dunmore Lang and gave influential evidence to a select committee on Pacific islands labour in 1869. ......

In 1859, an agricultural community was formed at Bald Hills which was known as 'the Scotch settlement'. Adjoining the new district of Sandgate, this settlement was founded by John and Margaret Stewart, the latter being the sister-in-law of Brisbane bootmaker Thomas Gray. They were accompanied by David, Charles and Jane Duncan who was to marry Stewart. 

All had been fellow passengers aboard the Anne Milne. This extended family with connections to Mackenzie's Black Isle contingent formed one of the strong strands of the Scottish network with links to David McConnel of Cressbrook.

Next to Janet Gray going north Lot 30, originally purchased by Joshua Jeays, then owned by  John Buckby  Snr

Joshua and his wife Sarah and their 3 children arrived in 1853 on board the Agricola.  He was listed as a Carpenter.  He died in 1881

Joshua Jeays (1812–1881) was a Leicester-born carpenter who became a successful developer, an alderman and mayor of Brisbane, his grandson was a very well known identity in Sandgate, Charles Jeays.

John Buckby  Senior

Classified Advertising

The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Saturday 16 March 1867 p 8 Advertising... of tho BALD HILLS. To be sold in consequence of the death of Mr. Buckby, senior. ARTHUR MARTIN has ... U who know it to be the PICK OF THE BALD HILLS, and tho public may feel assured that nothing but tho

John Buckby married Mary Wood, in England, he was a widower when he came to Australia, on the Monsoon, along with Hannah, Mary  John and David  James and George were already in Australia.

George Buckby married Eliza Hall




He was friends with the Stewarts.

He owned Lot 30, and a Portion of Lot 98, the parcel Whitehall, Norris and Barbour,  with a total of 133 acres.

North of John Buckby's land was Lot 37, originally owned by William Loudon, then purchased  by Archibald Cameron.

Archibald Cameron, was a Master Mariner. 

Archibald and his wife Mary Lamont and their children arrived in Australia on the "Duke of Newcastle" in 1863.  The children were Kate, Janet, Elizabeth, Angus , Margaret, Mary, Mary Anne and Alice.

In 1867, his daughter, Janet Amelia Cameron, married James Carseldine, of Bald Hills.  

Family Notices    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Friday 8 March 1867 p 2 Family Notices... bride's father, Mr. James Carseldine, of Bald Hills, to Miss Janet Amelia, daughter of Captain Archibald ... Cameron, of Fortitude Valley.

Family Notices       The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 -
 1934) Saturday 28 April 1877 p 16 Family Notices... , aged 3 years. CAMERON*/—On 27th March, at her sister's residence. Bald Hills, Annie, youngest daughter ... of Archibald Cameron, Brunswick-Street, Valley, aged 17.  
  . 

His daughter Alice Martha Cameron died in 1863, and Elizabeth died in 1880.   His only son Angus Lamont Cameron died in 1865. 

Family Notices

The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Thursday 21 December 1865 p 2 Family Notices

... 19th December, of decline, Angus Lamont, only surviving son of Captain A.Cameron,  

In Brisbane at the same time, there were several Captain Camerons, as there were world- wide, all making the headlines for all sorts of reasons.  

One had his ship-wrecked because he was drunk, another was in jail in Africa, another was doing something else that brought attention.  

Whatever Captain Cameron was doing, he became very wealthy, and owned considerable amount of property.

His wife Mary died in 1875.

 He then went to Maryborough, and sadly was attacked by a person of the name of Job in 1883.  He sustained injuries, and later died apparently as a result.  Mr Job was arrested.

MARYBOROUGH. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] January 20, 1883.

The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Tuesday 23 January 1883 p 6 Article

... MARYBOROUGH. [FROM OUR OWN Correspondent January 20, 1883. committed by a man named Job, who having previously quarrelled with Captain Cameron, an elderly gentleman ... 1951 words

Classified Advertising

The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Monday 29 September 1884 p 8 Advertising

... . Date within which Caveat may be Lodged,-2nd November, 1881. Name of Deceased Propritor.-Mary Cameron ... unsold balance of the East Stratton Estate, Valley. To bo sold in one lot, 30 Allotments in the Town of 
..

The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947) Friday 28 November 1884 p 8 Advertising ... CAMERON has received instructions tf from the Trustees in ' the Estate of the late Mrs. Mary Cameron, to ... CATHOLIC CHURCH, VALLEY. (2.) SUBDIVISIONS 55 and 56 or POR. TIONS 167 and 169, SOUTH BRISBANE. TOHN  

The children were listed as the beneficiaries.   Katherine, Janet, Mary and Margaret.    

Archibald Cameron was listed as the owner of a huge property.

Michael Fahey owned the property north of William Carseldine. Lot 35

Mr Fahey died on 15th January 1887.  He was the son of Peter Fahey and Margaret Manning.  He had a son Patrick Fahey

Michael grew pumpkins and maize as per the newspaper report.

Putting the maps in perspective, Bracken Ridge Road, used to be Bald Hills Road.

It ran from Bald Hills at the end of Lot 39, owned by David Blackether Duncan, in a straight line to Sandgate.    The Radio Mast appears to be on  Archibald Cameron's land.

Ralph Harrison was the original owner of Lot 38.    Ralph was a businessman in Brisbane, and had a few mentions in the newspaper. 

Classified Advertising

The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 - 1861) Saturday 16 August 1856 p 3 Advertising

... from such charge Yours obediently, (Signed) RALPH HARRISON. Brisbane, 14th August, 1856. -.-- ' g ... ton. ' A. J. HOCKINGS, , Produce Merchant,'Bnsbaue . . *. . - ,ir li

These are now all the landowners on the south side of Bald Hills Road, as it was known.  

This map shows the area surrounding the Bald Hills Creek, which runs behind Brighton (Nashville) and crosses the current Bracken Ridge Road at the Lagoons near Hoyland Street.

This land is at the mouth of the Pine River, and is now the wet lands.  Deepwater Bend was always a lovely spot, and to live on the River has a distinct advantage.





 I do remember some interesting times there, particularly in relation to some heavy rains in the late 1980's and the affect of water releases.  Couldn't have been very deep, because my Statesman had no problems!


It is interesting to note Michael's Island, there obviously was a settlement there at some stage, as in an electoral roll, several people were recorded as living at Greenwood's Pocket, and being oystermen.   

Party at Mosquito Creek, Pine River, 1 mile from Sandgate, Easter Monday, 1923.