OBJECT TITLE / NAME

The Letters of Henry Howard Meyrick.

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AUTHORTranscribed by Jeremy Hales and Marion Le Cheminant

PUBLISHERJJB Publishing, Maffra, Victoria

COLLECTIONBalnarring and District Historical Society

REG NO.L 7

HISTORY

The Letters of Henry Howard Meyrick May 1840 - November 1841 and January 1845 - April 1847.
Henry Meyrick (seventeen) was sent to Victoria with his cousin Alfred, (nineteen) to make their fortunes as grazier squatters. They, like many contemporaries, encountered a relentless sequence of challenges and hardships. Their Mornington Peninsula runs were ‘Colourt’, Narren- Gullen’ and‘Ballyrungen’. In 1846 they moved their venture to Gippsland in the vicinity of Glenmaggie where Henry struggled on until selling out within a year of arrival there.
Henry drowned crossing a swollen creek in 1847.
Alfred abandoned farming and became Shreiff of Arrarat. He returned to England, but came back to Victoria after three months to live the rest of his life there.

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