Robe. In the town cemetery the grave of John Ormerod. His brother George Ormerod established Naracoorte and was a wool shipping agent from Robe. He died in 1872 aged 49 years. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Robe. In the town cemetery the grave of John Ormerod. His brother George Ormerod established Naracoorte and was a wool shipping agent from Robe. He died in 1872 aged 49 years. / denisbin
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| 説明 | George Ormerod was born in Rochdale Lancashire in 1822. He arrived in Victoria in 1842 at the age of 19 years with his older brother John who was 35 years old. They travelled overland to the Naracoorte region. He acquired Naracoorte station, a leasehold run of 87 square miles, not long after arriving in the Naracoorte region in 1842. He lived in a reed hut on the banks of Naracoorte Creek until he built a stone two roomed cottage which still exists. Naracoorte run could carry 14,000 sheep. He obtained an occupation license in 1846 for the Naracoorte run which was located in the district of Mosquito Creek. A few years later Ormerod added a second cottage to his homestead property. On 7 November 1850 he married Mary McKeand. By 1859 his Naracoorte run had been sold to William MacIntosh. Be then built a substantial two storey homestead to complement the earlier stone cottages erected by Ormerod. After 1864 the Surveyor General George Goyder had the annual rent of the Naracoorte leasehold raised to £966 per annum up from the original £130. Narracoorte House, as it is known today, using the old spelling of the town name, is set in three acres of gardens. One large sandstone block in the house has 1859 scratched into it indicating when it was built But George Ormerod also several other runs nearby including Mount Scab leasehold run near Kingston which was 36 square miles in size; Marcollat (near Padthaway) which was 60 square miles; Biscuit Flat ( near Reedy Creek) which was 17 square miles; and Lake St Clair ( near Nora Creina) which was 33 square miles and just south of Robe. He held other South East leaseholds in conjunction with partners including some with Thomas Tilley and others with Edward Stockdale. George Ormerod was an energetic and influential pastoralist and he got others to move their wool shipping from Portland to Robe in 1846 beginning his own wool shipping business there. His pastoral base was wide spread but his wool shipping business was centred on Robe. In 1853 he bought several freehold town blocks in Robe. Here he built the 12 roomed Moorakyne House in 1856. In 1853 Ormerod took his wife and family of at least three living children, which included a daughter born in 1853, back to England for several years during the construction of the house which began in 1853. They occupied it after their return from England in 1856. After their return from England another son was born in 1856 and a daughter in 1857.Their youngest son was born in 1861. In the early days Ormerod shipped wool direct from Robe to London but soon changed it to a cheaper system of shipping it to Melbourne and then using other shipping companies to transport it to London. Virtually all wool shipped from Robe was done so by Ormerod. In 1856 this amount was 3,580 bales but by 1867 it was 8,100 bales. The value of exports handled by Ormerod between 1856 to 1865 was valued at £1,096,700. Ormerod also imported British goods for station owners. George Ormerod partially retired around 1868 and before his death in 1872 he sold his shipping business to John Grice and Co of Melbourne. But when Naracoorte was linked to Kingston by railway in 1876, four years after Ormerod’s death, South East wool shipping was moved from Robe to Kingston by John Grice and Co. George Ormerod died in Robe on 10 April 1872 at just 49 years of age. George married a woman called Mary and had nine children including at least three sons and several daughters. George Ormerod was a supporter of the Robe St Peters Anglican Church and was instrumental in it being built. He attended the laying of the foundation stone in 1859 and its opening in 1860. After her husband’s death Mary Ormerod continued to live in Robe in Moorakyne House for a short time. Then she took her children back to England for their education for some years. Upon her return to the Australian colonies she moved to Heidelberg in Melbourne although she kept Moorakyne House for some years. It became the Anglican rectory in Robe in 1909. Mary Ormerod died in 1929 at the age of 96 years. She was just 40 years old when her husband died. When she died there were only four surviving children of the marriage. Back in 1872 George Ormerod was buried in a simple grave in Robe cemetery with a small simple headstone stating his death and not mentioning his wife or children or businesses. His brother died prior to George and was buried in the same side. George Ormerod was community minded person and in the 1840s was a Justice of the Peace for the Naracoorte region until his resignation in 1850. He was appointed again as a Justice of the Peace in Robe in 1860 which included presiding over court hearings with the Government Resident of Robe and some court sessions in Naracoorte. In 1859 he sent his ship the Ant to assist the survivors of the wreck of the Admella at Cape Banks but without success. He was also a member of the Roads Board of the South East and he was on the Licencing Bench for the South East and he was involved with the first few Naracoorte Agricultural and Pastoral Shows. When the Guichen Bay boiling down works and company was established in 1868 Ormerod was one of the financiers and directors of the company. Newspapers reported he was seriously ill in late 1868 and he resigned from the Roads Board and appears to have not continued with his run for a parliamentary seat. In 1871 George Ormerod gifted two reserves, never to be built upon, for the centre of the town of Naracoorte the town where he began his pastoral business exploits. |
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