William Degraves

Containers:

Box 27 (MS 8363)

Component identifier:

File 16B

Content Summary:

(married to Robina Fraser - brother-in-law and employer of Charles Forbes Fraser)

Information on William Degraves' pastoral empire in Victoria and New South Wales and his flour mills in Victoria.

Includes article 'The first flour mills of Port Phillip' VHM November 1937

Extracts on Degraves from Reminiscences of Australian Early Life by a Pioneer; Memoirs of a Sheepman by Hugh Malcolm; The Riverina by Robert B. Ronald; Pastoral Settlement in Northern VictoriaVols I and II.

Extracts from Union Bank records on William Degraves properties Dotsworth and St Ann's in Burdekin district, Queensland - obtained from ANZ Bank Group Archive, Melbourne. Includes correspondence with Bank's Historian. Argus accounts of court case William Degraves MLC v. McMullin (officer of Bank) of which Degraves was a director

6 June 1873 - 24 March 1874 Age account of William Degraves MLC v. McMullin case regarding Queensland properties Dotsworth and St Anne's in Burdekin district. 6 - 13 June 1873 Australasian Sketcher 'Remarkable Bank Case', 12 July 1873

Obituaries William Degraves, Argus, Hobart Mercury 21 March 1883

Will John Degraves

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Patricia Clarke were donated to the National Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme (now the Cultural Gifts Program (CGP)) in 1990, 1994 and 1997. Further donations were received via CGP in 2006 and 2011.

Subjects:

History
Literature

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