Log in

Search Results

Advanced Search
KML CSV GeoJSON RO-Crate
KML CSV GeoJSON
3D Viewer Cluster Journey Route Werekata Flight by Route Temporal Earth

Note: Layers are contributed from many sources by many people or derived by computer and are the responsibility of the contributor. Layers may be incomplete and locations and dates may be imprecise. Check the layer for details about the source. Absence in TLCMap does not indicate absence in reality. Use of TLCMap may inform heritage research but is not a substitute for established formal and legal processes and consultation.

Log in to save searches and contribute layers.
Displaying 1 result from a total of 1:

SORT: Placename | State | LGA | Feature_term | Latitude | Longitude | Start Date | End Date |

Mackay abandons station retreats to Nurengong/Hume River/Murray River

Placename
Nurengong/Hume River/Murray River
Layer
Colonists Retreat From Aboriginal Raids On The South Road
Link back to source:
https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromvicto00publiala/lettersfromvicto00publiala_djvu.txt
Type
Other
3D Viewer Temporal Earth Google Maps Trove Search

Details

Latitude
-36.1008
Longitude
146.909
Start Date
1838-04-19
End Date
1838-04-19

Description

"I arrived at the Ovens in March 1838, on the evening of the day on which Mr. Faithfull's party were attacked by the blacks at Broken River...In a few days Mr. G. Faithfull selected the lands he now holds Oxley Plains and I occupied the lands immediately opposite Myrrhee, now the station of J. W. Chisholm. A panic seized the servants and they deserted their employers. Bowman, Faithfull, and White, abandoned their cattle on the runs, and I was left alone with three assigned servants, my freemen having absconded. In a few days these assigned men told me that they would stay no longer, but offered to assist me back to the settled districts with the stock. I was thus compelled to leave the Ovens. I took my stock back to the Hume River (Nurengong). On my return to the Ovens in about six months' time, I found that Chisholm had -taken possession of Myrrhee, and I settled at Warrouley, which I still hold."pp187-189 George Edward Mackay to His Excellency C. J. La Trobe, Esq. in Thomas Francis Bride (ed) Letters from Victorian Pioneers Melbourne: Librarian of the Public Library Victoria, 1898https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromvicto00publiala/lettersfromvicto00publiala_djvu.txt

Sources

ID
t1c2e9

Extended Data

DateNote
A few days' after the Faithful massacre selected land, then a few days later staff deserted so he followed, so est. 1 week after massacre.
Location Source
Hume River' aka Nurengong, now known as Murray River, the point is taken to be where the South Road crosses the Murray, ie: Albury/Wodonga. On p330 letter from Mackay indicates he is at Lewis's station 'left bank of the Hume River' but I can't figure out where Lewis' station was.