The Gray, Bull & Baker Families – New Freugh to the Folly It needs to be remembered that the population of these areas are very small, people would travel further to see neighbours and organise social activities where they could all meet and spend time together. So it is important to look at the proximitiesContinue reading “New Freugh to Waratah”
Category Archives: NEW FREUGH
Benjamin Baker – New Freugh Station
When recalling an encounter with a fearsome Aboriginal man who he called ‘Better Bread’, George Abner Gray: ‘My sister, brother and I were sitting at the end of our hunt and sister was reading … Better Bread was at his camp as usual and seems to think we were teasing him; all at once heContinue reading “Benjamin Baker – New Freugh Station”
George Gray – New Freugh Station
George Gray – New Freugh It was after the death of Frances and George’s insolvency, that George and Ann Gray set out to emigrate to join his brother in law, now a widower, Edmund Bull and his family of three young children. The story recent family conveys, is that Edmund Bull wrote to his brotherContinue reading “George Gray – New Freugh Station”
Edmund Bull – New Freugh Station
Frances and Edmund Bull in Sydney When they came to Australia under the bounty scheme via the ‘Herald’ in 1845, Edmund Bull recorded his occupation as ‘farm labourer’, his wife as Frances as a ‘Cook’. Frances’s place of birth was Whitwell and her parents were Morris and Anne Lot [sic]. Like the Gray’s the BullContinue reading “Edmund Bull – New Freugh Station”
New Freugh Station
John Crichton Stuart McDouall and New Freugh Station Terry Callahan complied on his history and genealogy website place names in the Singleton district and states: “New Freugh [was] a property approximately 3 km east of Singleton on the Hunter River. The original landholder was John Malcolm who received a grant of 2050 acres on theContinue reading “New Freugh Station”
Arrival in New South Wales
Arrival in Sydney Cove The ‘Thomas Arbuthnot’ arrived in Sydney on the 17th January 1849 with a family bereaved and depleted. Sarah Ann was 7 years of age, Maurice 5 years and George Abner 2 ½ years old, George was without his wife and baby son, the children without a mother. There were a seriesContinue reading “Arrival in New South Wales”
George Gray - Stonemason & Builder 