Monthly Archives: August 2018

Another Glengallan Picture

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The Australian Town and Country Journal printed an article on Glengallan on 19 June 1875. The article was accompanied by an engraving showing the homestead and the then new wool shed.

Someone clipped the engraving out of the Journal and carefully coloured it with what appears to be water colours to produce a very attractive view of the property.

The article provides a good description of the property and its workings so I have kept them together. Interesting reading. Good descriptions of the layout of the wool shed and the facilities for the cattle stud.

The painting has been included with the Martens, Lloyd and Marshall pictures and can be seen HERE.

The pictures are in chronological order so this one is at the bottom.

©Alun Stevens 2018

Did Charles Henry Marshall go to the Turon goldfields?

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Nehemiah Bartley (pictured above left) was the brother-in-law of Edmund Barton, the first Australian Prime Minister. He travelled widely across Australia and in August 1851 went to the Turon goldfields in New South Wales. There he met “Marshall … and his West Indian friend, Davson.”

Some biographers have claimed that this was Charles Henry Marshall and that his efforts on the goldfields yielded the capital that allowed him to prosper at Glengallan where Bartley definitely did meet him and Charlotte in July 1858.

The link between the two meetings seems to have been made because Charles’s brother, William, was a cashier at the Bank of England, and the Marshall at Turon claimed to be the son of the Chief Cashier of the Bank of England.

The Chief Cashier of the Bank of England at the time was indeed a Marshall; Matthew Marshall (pictured above right). He was not related to Charles and William. So, did Bartley meet Charles? Or did he meet someone else?

It took some digging by Megan, but the true story is HERE

©Alun Stevens 2018