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From: Douglas Burbury <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] EASTERN MARSHES
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:55:37 +1000
References: <3.0.6.32.20010905221102.0082d100@vision.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <00d701c136c8$ee9fe560$9c0136cb@mwise>


Margaret,

At 05:33 PM 6/09/01 +1000, Margaret Wise wrote:
>Dear Douglas,
>Knowing your link with the Southern Midlands I was awaiting your reply to
>this query. Am I right in saying that Eastern Marshes included the area
>that is now called Whitefoord? The reason I ask is that William Joseph
>Storey had quite a large land grant in that area, including the properties
>(named later) of Ponsonby Vale and Ponsonby Park which were purchased by
>George Wilson. I believe that district is now called Whitefoord.

To tell the absolute truth, I don't know.

I think that Eastern Marshes must have been a fairly spread-out place
without definite boundaries. Helen Brown also mentioned a few properties
that make up the area, but she missed out the Tabart grants that became
"Fonthill" which definitely make up part of Eastern Marshes. And I
questioned my own inclusion of "Ashgrove" in this area because (although I
think this particular area was originally granted to Peter Roberts), the
name "George Wilson" is more or less synonymous with "Mount Seymour", which
is the similarly amorphous district to the (north-)west of Eastern Marshes.

And as I mentioned in another message, Thomas Burbury leased 12,000 acres
of Crown Land at Eastern Marshes, which was by definition separate from the
various properties in the district which had already been granted to
various people such as William Nicholls Junior, Peter Roberts and Francis
Tabart. So the area known as Eastern Marshes must have been somewhat bigger
than the (off the top of my head) 15,000+ acres that made up properties
such as Inglewood, Fonthill, Spring Cottage, Crighton and Ashgrove.

Whether Parattah and Whitefoord and Stonehenge and those other places south
of the Little Swanport River were also part of Eastern Marshes is something
that I can't say for certain. But I feel that at least the district known
as Eastern Marshes must have extended further east of "Fonthill" and
towards Tooms Lake.

Douglas


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