Week 13 - The Old Homestead

Building the Homestead


Ironbarks Today


Do you have an old homestead that means something to your family? Tell me about it in the comments below.
Bibliography
- 1. Fremantleprison.com.au. ‘Convict Database’. https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/history/the-convict-era/. Accessed 16 May 2016.
- 2. Geraldton Hospitality Inn, 'Ironbarks Old Forge', https://www.geraldton.wa.hospitalityinns.com.au/ironbarks, Accessed 16 May 2016.
- 3. City of Greater Geraldton, 'Greenough Heritage Places', https://www.cgg.wa.gov.au/Profiles/cgg/Assets/ClientData/Document-Centre/Planning/Heritage/Part_3_-_Greenough.pdf, Accessed 26 March 2018.
- 4. Erickson, Rica. The Brand on his Coat: Biographies of some Western Australian Convicts. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1983.
- 5. Ancestry.com. Western Australia, Australia, Crew and Passenger Lists, 1852-1930 [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2010. Source Citation: SRO of Western Australia; Albany Passenger list of Assisted Emigrants showing names of emigrants and from which countries selected; Immigration Record for Isabella, David, Isabella, Andrew, and George Brand, Accession: 115; Roll: 214. Accessed 5 June 2016.
- 6. Trove. ‘Herald’. (1879, September 21). Fremantle, Western Australia (Fremantle, WA: 1867 – 1886), p.3. https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114441153. Accessed 31 May 2016.
- 7. Realestate.com.au, '1237 Company Road', https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-greenough-122381634, Accessed 26 March 2018.
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- 9. Wedding Bells." Geraldton Express (WA : 1906 - 1919) 14 September 1914: 3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211762264, Accessed 12 August 2016.
- Adb.anu.ed.au. ‘Sir David Brand’. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brand-sir-david-9571. Accessed 10 June 2016.
Image Credits
- a. ‘Ironbarks’, Greenough, Western Australia. https://www.panoramio.com/photo/19112398. Accessed 15 June 2016.
- b. 1867 Isabella Brand’s Wedding at ‘Ironbarks’. https://mv.ancestrylibrary.com/viewer/d6d7fd4b-8c41-4714-83d7-f2758cf874f5/54394119/13802447848? _phsrc=gqo97&usePUBJs=true. Accessed 10 June 2016.
- c. Ironbarks Homestead. Geraldton Property Group, https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-greenough-122381634, Accessed 4 April 2018.
- d. Ironbarks Kitchen. Geraldton Property Group, https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-greenough-122381634, Accessed 4 April 2018.
- e. Ironbarks Vegetation. Geraldton Property Group, https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-greenough-122381634, Accessed 4 April 2018.
I have really enjoyed reading all your stories of George Brand – especially as I have many connections to the family via my own Western Australian convict families and my proximity to Greenough. I have been able to add some fascinating “bits” to my own story of the Brand family – I did not realise that his misdemeanours were so wide……..
When I travel to my own family home at Northampton I pass through Geraldton and Greenough, so this week I will be thinking of Ironbarks through that area. Another quirk of fate is that I was in Brisbane only last week too.
Hello Susanne
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment about your link to George Brand. I am glad that his story added some dimension to your family history. This is what genealogy is all about – finding the interesting bits and sharing them with others. I have never made it as far as Geraldton in my previous travels to Perth as I spend so much time visiting close family but my goal is to definitely travel to that part of the state in the future. Which families of yours connect to George – Criddle, Waldeck, Eaton, Patton, Gould? I would be very interested to know.
Regards
Megan
Hello Megan, I am a great great great grandchild of George and was born in 1971 Morawa.
Hello Peter
Wonderful to hear from another George Brand descendant! I, too am a third great grandchild of his. Just out of curiousity, which of his children do you descend from – David, Andrew, George, or John?
Regards
Megan
Megan,
I descend from John.
Hello Peter
Wow! So good to hear from you. So where did John’s descendants end up? Did they stay in the Greenough region or move on?
Regards
Megan
I have included your blog in INTERESTING BLOGS in FRIDAY FOSSICKING at
https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2018/04/friday-fossicking-20th-april-2018.html
Thank you, Chris
Hi Chris
Thank you so much – I am humbled.
Regards,
Megan
Megan,
When you contacted the real estate agents did you ask them for the link to the pages and information about the property when last for sale. Last year I received a message, via my blog, from the real estate agent selling Rosemount, the property belonging to my grandparents in the 1950s and 1960s. As well as having access to the information they had posted they contacted the owner at the time, passing on the link to my blog, and he contacted me asking for further information about the house and took photographs of the property and house as it is today for me.
Cheers, Vicki
Hi Vicki
The real estate agent sent me links to some information about the house that is on the web that I was able to include in the article. I will contact again to see if he can pass any further information or photos on. Thanks for the suggestion.
Regards,
Megan
I can just imagine what a wonderful experience it would be to visit the homestead, to touch the same walls that George himself handled, and walk the same floors (well almost) that his family did. Breathing in the ancestors so to speak.
Hi Jen
I know! I contacted the real estate agent currently selling the property to see if he had any further information about the house and told him my connection to it. He invited me to inspect it but alas a trip from Brisbane to Western Australia is not doable at the moment! In a bit of a coincidence a home I always loved looking at heading into Brisbane city is currently up for sale. I’m waiting for the open house for this one as it was the home of my children’s great-great-grandparents. I would love to look around it!
Regards,
Megan
It’s so cool that you have the option of going and seeing such a beautifully preserved homestead of your ancestors! I love that vaulted ceiling, I wonder how it will feel when you’re in there. There’s a mountain range just south of me named after my ancestors, and also up in there somewhere an abandoned mining town. I have yet to go explore it, don’t know what I’m waiting for, and I wonder how I’ll feel when I’m there. 🙂
Hi Penelope
I really want to go see this homestead but it is 4500km from my home, on the other side of the country! I think next time I make a trip to Perth (400km south of Greenough) I need to make a concerted effort to travel up there! You need to go see that mountain range if it is close to you. Let me know how you go.
Regards,
Megan