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The book contains 160pp with maps and extensive indexes of people, places and subjects. Henry Price took up 100 square miles of land under an Occupational Licence at Todd River, in what was to become the Hundred of Koppio, 20 miles north of Port Lincoln. He had married Isabella Young, originally from Leith in Scotland, in Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide in 1846.
Henry had landed in Sydney in 1841, and had come overland droving sheep down the River, with members of the Hawker family. He had taken up 101 acres of land at Spalding in the north-west. At the time he was about 22 years old, having been born in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, in 1819 and had been educated, with his brother, Professor Bonamy Price at Rugby under Doctor Arnold.
Records show that Henry shipped his sheep from Port Pirie to Lipson Cove near Tumby Bay (Harvey Bay). The land was rough and hardships for a young married couple with four small children were many. Henry went into partnership with his brother-in-law Arthur Hardy (who built "Birkgate" and who married Henry's sister Martha Price). The partnership was over two leases, one centred at Strawberry Hill and Greenpatch and the other at Tulka, all of which are about 30 miles west of Port Lincoln.
The diary sheds new light on the early history of the Port Lincoln area. Many small ships arrived in port bringing Administrators, Bishops, Doctors, Pastoralists, Surveyors, Traders and Miners. Henry who had been appointed a J.P. in Spalding some years earlier, sat on a number of police matters and various preliminary hearings of varied importance. His main occupation, however, was running his numerous "sheep stations".
The second son of Frederick Price and Marguerite de Guerin was Matthew Guerin Price 1787-1847 who married Caroline, Countess Raphael, Before her marriage to Matthew Guerin PRICE she appears to have been from the MAENZA family. Very little is know about Matthew Guerin Price except he was a Private Banker and was married in Naples Italy possibly around 1816/17. We have four children we have found from this marriage - Captain Matthew Price born Naples Italy 1 January 1818 and Mary Caroline Price born Naples Italy, 14 June 1819. Mary Louise Raffaele Price born Naples Italy on 27 September 1820 and married 1850 in Leicestershire but we don't know her husband and Rev Edward Henry Price born Naples Italy, 24 May 1822. See biographies, written by myself in our family history "GRANDMA! Where did I come from?". Stories about: Captain Matthew Price 1818-1883. Pioneer of Victoria Australia and also New Zealand, and PRICE Matthew 1854-1940 born in Victoria, educated in New Zealand was an explorer and bridge and jetty builder in Western Australia. Other names Rev. Edward Matthew Price, Rev. Frederick William Stephen Price, Herbert Johnson Price, Arthur Danvers Price. Henry Mornington Price, Reginald Thompson Price.
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