Kelly Aitken – Page 2 – Century Farms

POIDEVIN ‘Braemar’ Goulburn, New South Wales | 1921

Unlike so many farming families who trace their history back to the United Kingdom and Ireland, this family’s story begins in the Channel Island of Guernsey. French national Pierre Le Poidevin, arrested by the English during the Napoleonic Wars ostensibly for forging passports and currency, was shipped to the colony in 1835. Eventually he found his [...][...read more ]

BLAIR Proserpine, Queensland | 1919

Alfred and his bride Wilhemina Blair commenced sugarcane farming in the North Gregory district in 1918. They farmed the total area of 45 acres, all of which was cleared by hand. In 1920 they built their home where they raised their five children Edward, George, Alfred, Robert and Mabel. In the beginning the farm work [...][...read more ]

BANFF “Clinton” Coominya, Queensland | 1880

The Bond Room at Banff Brothers Clinton Winery, Coominya Queensland circa early 1900. Pictured: Henry, and John Banff left and on the right Mr Serisier, who was both winemaker and Excise Officer. Brandy was stored in the Bond Room and only Mr.Serisier had a key! Founder Jacob Banff originally from Ernsthausen, Hassan, Germany, at that time [...][...read more ]

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 ]

DEERAN Woodlawn, Bromelton Queensland | 1873

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FRENCH 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 ]