BRANSON Titchmarsh, Alma, South Australia 1876
The Branson family left Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire and made the perilous sea journey to South Australia. Purchasing several blocks of land on the rolling plains north of Adelaide in 1876. Still later this land near Stockton was traded in 1898 for other blocks, which today form “Titchmarsh” and are central to the Branson’s grain and livestock [...][...read more ]
read moreDEERAN Woodlawn, Bromelton Queensland 1873
James Darren Jnr. born in the Province of Leister, Eire, 1849, and was part of the vast migration out of Ireland post the Great Famine. Escaping hunger and dire poverty, 1.5 million Irish citizens sailed to other lands hoping for a better future. In 1871 James took up a lease of what had been Bromelton [...][...read more ]
read moreFRENCH Gilberton Station, Einasleigh, Queensland 1869
The story of Gilberton Station is a tale of three interwoven cultures, European, Aboriginal and to a lesser extent that of the Chinese. Tom and Lydia Martel were the founders of Gilberton circa 1869 they acquired the property more or less by squatting, as you did, as you could! The family’s stone fortress completed in [...][...read more ]
read morePast News: His Excellency the Governor General praises ACFSA
His Excellency the Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC was recently invited to become Patron of our organisation. Senator Matt Canavan Minister for Resources and Northern Australia kindly wrote the recommendation for us. Although the request was declined, as he will leave the office early next year, Sir Peter expressed a hope that he could [...][...read more ]
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