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From: "Denise" <>
Subject: Re: [AQ-WESTERN] Mount MORRIS and Jackson
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:54:42 +1000
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Thanks Tony for all this
I was on these sites this evening and they take some reading but are
fantastic and I love to read of the places marked along the way. Dickens
the son is now buried in Moree I believe. Things just keep ringing bells.

As for Cobb - yes that was my first reaction to Peleg heading to Qld and of
course Charleville was the base for Cobb - I have the book here also.
I've always been interested in Coaching lines - my great-grandfather
started one in northeast Victoria and I have been researching that in depth
for the past 6 years, official documents, balance sheets, Director's
reports, diaries newspapers whatever I could find. Whilst I knew of Peleg
for years, imagine my surprise when he turns up in the 1870s as a partner to
my great-grandfather, in Beechworth! After heading for the wilds of
Queensland Peleg's wife Anna remained for a couple of decades a major
shareholder in the firm.

Interesting industry but a confusing one with the selling, buying, merging
and trading under names which had no relation to the new owner. The firm
Cobb & Co. as we know it, is one prime example of confusion. You have
Clapp, Cobb, Crawford from the same area of Massachusetts. Other Americans
like Peleg Jackson from Vermont, pop up as coaching owners. Makes a tough
job of it, sorting a from b and z. However, my gg'f is done. I've been in
touch with Cobb Museum in Toowoomba and await a reply from that end.

All is proceeding well and quickly. Thanks for the input I appreciate all
the effort from everyone. Just to think that this morning all I could find
was ANNA JACKSON lived in Mt Morris in Qld in 1890 - and this information
came from shareholders list of Crawford & Co. From there it just fell into
place.

Denise
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Moore" <>
To: <>; "Denise" <>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AQ-WESTERN] Mount MORRIS and Jackson


> Dear Denise,
>
> My great grandfather William Robert MOORE was in that general area
> around the time frame you mention. He business was a carpenter-
> bridgebuilder and general construction. He is known to have built,
> under contract, a number of bridges, homesteads and ground tanks on
> the various cattle and sheep properties from Goodooga through to
> Charleville.
>
> Many of the properties both north and south of the border were
> squatters runs.
>
> W R Moore "won" (or became a "selector" of ) the property "Mogila"
> at Goodooga (NSW) which sits astride the border on the NSW side,
> later purchasing Currawillinghi on the Qld side.
>
> He " won" this in the first land ballot held in NSW in 1884 after
> legislation was passed to break up the squatters stranglehold on land
> ownership. Qld adopted the same type of legislation a few years
> later. "Mogila" today is still a Merino sheep stud.
>
> When you look at a map it may help you ........
> Mt Morris Station / settlement is north of Charleville.
> http://www.multimap.com/wi/126460.htm
>
> In a more modern time frame, Mount Morris has postcode 4470
> It shares this postcode with all these stations / settlements /
> villages / towns, all centred around Charleville:
>
> Ambathala 4470
> Arabella 4470
> Ardgour 4470
> Ardnaree 4470
> Auburn Vale 4470
> Authoringa 4470
> Bakers Bend 4470
> Barduthulla 4470
> Barrimornie 4470
> Baykool 4470
> Bayrick 4470
> Bicton 4470
> Billoola 4470
> Bonella 4470
> Boondoon 4470
> Boothulla 4470
> Box Creek 4470
> Bronte 4470
> Bullecourt 4470
> Burrandilla 4470
> Byrgenna 4470
> Cairns Station 4470
> Calabah 4470
> Calourie 4470
> Canegrass 4470
> Charleville 4470
> Collaroy 4470
> Combanning 4470
> Coongoola 4470
> Croxdale 4470
> Cunno Creek 4470
> Dillalah 4470
> Dunstan 4470
> Dunvegan 4470
> Fortland 4470
> Glanworth 4470
> Glengarry 4470
> Glenyarron 4470
> Gowrie 4470
> Gowrie Old 4470
> Guestling 4470
> Kahmoomulga 4470
> Kenmore 4470
> Kennedys 4470
> Kiaora 4470
> Langlo Downs 4470
> Lansdowne 4470
> Loddon 4470
> Lurnea 4470
> Mangalore 4470
> Manning 4470
> Maxvale 4470
> Meecha 4470
> Miegunyah 4470
> Molonga 4470
> Monamby Park 4470
> Moruya 4470
> Mount Morris 4470
> Mount Pleasant 4470
> Mulga Forest 4470
> Murweh 4470
> Myendetta 4470
> Newholme 4470
> Nive Downs 4470
> Noella 4470
> Norah Park 4470
> Nungil 4470
> Oak Park 4470
> Oakwood 4470
> Offham 4470
> Pinnacle 4470
> Pretty Pines 4470
> Quilberry 4470
> Ravenscourt 4470
> Riversleigh 4470
> Rosebank 4470
> Sandford Park 4470
> Shelbourne 4470
> Sherwood 4470
> Sommariva 4470
> Thurlby 4470
> Toliness 4470
> Toolmaree 4470
> Varna 4470
> Vera Park 4470
> Wadeholme 4470
> Wallal 4470
> Wallen 4470
> Walton Downs 4470
> Wanko 4470
> Wansey Downs 4470
> Wardilla 4470
> Warilda 4470
> Warrego 4470
> Wellclose 4470
> Werrina 4470
> Westgate 4470
> Wyoming 4470
> Yalamurra 4470
> Yallamurra 4470
> Yallara 4470
> Yandarlo 4470
> Yanna 4470
> Yarrawonga 4470
>
> Notwithstanding the above you can get a pictorial glimpse of what
> you asked of Mt Morris and why it is famous ......... BUT .........
> looks like you'll have to do a belated interview with a famous guy
> called Clancy of the Overflow, (now deceased), or his nemesis, a
> certain Mr H Lawson(also deceased). I warn you that you'll have to do
> some serious reading here !
> This will be an extraordinary glimpse for you all about Mt Morris,
> but it also explains your mobile man ...........
>
> Chapter 8
> As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing.
> (A.B. "Banjo" Paterson, "Clancy of the Overflow")
>
> In 1896, Henry Lawson published "While the Billy Boils". One of the
> short stories in it is entitled "Hungerford". Here is an excerpt
> from that story:
>
> http://www.webcore.com.au/clancy/p08_chapter_8.php
>
> I'll leave more of the tracking to you, but if you use
> http://www.google.com.au
>
> Copy and paste: "cobb and co" charleville ........
> in the box you will also be interested to know that Charleville was
> the actual centre or hub for Cobb & Co. in Queensland
>
> Mere speculation, but spossibly another alternative, look at putting
> your man Jackson on an outstation (or a horse relay point) or staging
> point for Cobb & Co. He certainly had intimate knowledge of its
> transport and passenger requirements.
>
> Cheers for now,
>
> Tony Moore
> (Balgo, Western Australia)
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>
> On 23 Feb 2005 at 12:27, Denise wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm Denise and I live in Brisbane but all my research until today has
>> been Victorian based. I have just followed one of my research
>> subjects over the border and into Qld.
>>
>> I found that during the late 1880s and early 1890s, Peleg W Jackson
>> and his wife Anna and their daughters lived at Mt. Morris.
>>
>> A quick Google challenge and I found two references that it flooded
>> about this time, and that it's in the middle of Queensland. I found
>> nothing else, and if anyone can give me some clues on what went on in
>> Mt. Morris in that period and if they have anything at all on the area
>> and in particular my mobile Peleg Jackson, I would love to hear.
>>
>> He left Victoria around about 1885, was a coach proprietor and also
>> had been involved in the Murray River steam boat trade.
>>
>> When he arrived in Australia in 1853 he worked we think for Cobb
>> before buying out part of that business when Cobb himself left for
>> America in 1856.
>>
>> Fingers x'd.
>> regards
>> Denise
>>
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