Thomas Peel of Swan RiverHistory of the Swan River Settlement, W.A. and its founder Thomas Peel 1768-1865; Settlement founded 1829; p.77- 78; Contact & reactions between the first Swan River settlers and the Aborigines; Chp.IX; Settlers difficulties with the Murray River Aborigines - murder and plunder - police force formed - Pinjarra area; Effort to civilize Aborigines; Institution for natives founded at foot of Mount Elna 1837 under F.F. Armstrong; Attitude of settlers improved. |
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Page 58
... wife , eight children , and a brother , Mr Peyton Gamble Meares , four men servants , three women and a boy . His freight included four mares , forty sheep , nine sows and a boar , three bullocks , four cows , ten pairs of fowls , six ...
... wife , eight children , and a brother , Mr Peyton Gamble Meares , four men servants , three women and a boy . His freight included four mares , forty sheep , nine sows and a boar , three bullocks , four cows , ten pairs of fowls , six ...
Page 66
... wife Mary Charlotte Dorking Peel and for my reputed Child Frederick Peel now of the age of eleven years who is about to sail with me to the said Settlement as well as for my three Children by her my said wife viz . Julia Peel now of the ...
... wife Mary Charlotte Dorking Peel and for my reputed Child Frederick Peel now of the age of eleven years who is about to sail with me to the said Settlement as well as for my three Children by her my said wife viz . Julia Peel now of the ...
Page 140
... wife and child ; W. and Mary Adams and two children ; R. Robinson and his family ; W. Ledgard , and quite a few others whose names are not available from documents but who must be presumed to have been there both from family legend and ...
... wife and child ; W. and Mary Adams and two children ; R. Robinson and his family ; W. Ledgard , and quite a few others whose names are not available from documents but who must be presumed to have been there both from family legend and ...
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aborigines acres of land Adam Armstrong appeared arrived Association Australind became brother Captain Meares Captain Stirling Clarence Clifton Co-partnership coast Cockburn Sound Colonial Office Colonial Secretary Cooper and Levey cousin Daniel Cooper daughter debt December Deed Despatches Dora Dunnage Elmslie Emancipists emigrants England establishment Frederick Peel Fremantle Garden Island gentlemen Gilmore Government Governor Stirling grant of land Hall ibid indentured James Stirling January knew labour Land Titles Office later letter Levey's Location 16 London Mandurah Mandurah House Mary Charlotte ment months Murray River natives party Peel's Peelfold person Perth Gazette Pinjarra received reported Robert Peel Rockingham sailed Serpentine Farm servants settlement scheme settlers shillings ship Sir George Murray soldiers Solomon Levey South Wales Stirling's Swan River colony Swan River Guardian Sydney Thomas Peel townsite Twiss Wakefield Western Australia wife William wrote