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 ==== Rosewood Station 1843-44 ====
-TLM-P started an account book (ledger) for his first station, //Rosewood//, on 23 June 1843 ((MLMSS3117/box 6/item 4. Though it is catalogued as from 24 June, the first entry is for the 23rd)). On its first page he recorded items he bought at a Brisbane sale on 23 June. These items include necessities such as fustian trousers, blankets, guns and knives, but also indicates that he aspired to gentility with silk handkerchiefs and two tablecloths.\\
+TLM-P started an account book (ledger) for his first station, //Rosewood//, on 23 June 1843 ((MLMSS3117/box 6/item 4. Though it is catalogued as from 24 June, the first entry is for the 23rd)). For information about its contents including employees, see entry for Rosewood under [[Gaining Colonial Experience & Early Properties]]
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-One page of his accounts reveals the co-dependence of neighbouring squatters. The 2-page spread lists items borrowed and lent from and to other stations, particularly from a neighbour E.B. Uhr. As well, among his list of expenses for August 1843, TLM-P notes he paid Uhr £20 'for his run [land] at Laidley Creek'. This was Edmund Blucher Uhr who features in David Marr's chilling book, //Killing For Country// (Black Inc., 2023). The co-dependence does not mean lack of conflict. Another entry in the Rosewood accounts is a payment of £26 to settle a boundary dispute with Uhr.\\
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-Employees included current and former convicts as well as others:\\
-   **Robert Scolis**[?] was an assigned servant of J Bell Esq. but worked for TLM-P from April 1844.((list of cheques)) TLM-P increased his wage to £25 pa for ‘being a most excellent shepherd’. \\
-   **John Moore** had a ticket of leave and was employed as a general servant from 21 July 1843. His contract was for 12 months at £23pa. \\
-   **Patrick Flannery** was another former convict, 'free by servitude'. He was employed from 1 July 1843 as a shepherd at £26 pa but just for 3 months. \\
-   **Thomas Moore** (check p.16)\\
-   **Edward Walker** was also 'free by servitude'. On 1 July 1843, TLM-P hired him as a general servant for three months at 10/- per week for 3 months. Walker was then re-hired to shear sheep and kept on for a year less '2 days’. He was paid £43.13.1, but bought goods from TLM-P’s store so received £18.10.6½ as the balance of his wages. TLM-P noted that the “Agreement & wages cancelled by the Court.” \\
-   **James Johnson** was another 'free by servitude'. He was employed on 18 August 1843 as a general servant at 10/- per week but discharged on 1 Oct 1843. He had luxurious tastes as the stores he bought from TLM-P included 3 silk handkerchiefs. It is possible he was the same James Johnson who Tom de M. M-P paid by cheque £1 to in May 1868 for shoeing horses on //Maroon//.\\
-   **Timothy Shea** employed in February 1844 to take change of sheep at £104pa. He bought a large number of goods then was paid out 'to settle a dispute' in July 1845. A later entry (pp32-33) has him employed for 14 weeks and 1 day at £2 per week. Shea was an unsatisfactory employee though he was given a number of chances. TLM-P apparently deducted money from Shea's wages for not mixing flocks (£4); allowing rams to be with flock and presumably mucking up the breeding program (£5); and losing a Carbine rifle (£3.10.0). \\
-   **John Townsend** was hired on 4 May 1843 to use his own horse to ride to Moreton Bay to look after stock. He was paid £30pa but just for 3 months. He was later employed as a hutkeeper until 28 February 1844. The rate of pay is unclear, perhaps£9 per month. When he was on leave in 1844 he apparently decided he needed a new horse, but was convicted 'for horse stealing by Captain Wickham' who was the police magistrate at Moreton Bay. See [[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wickham-john-clements-2790|ADB entry]].\\
-   **Dennis Kahill** was hired on 23 December 1844 at £20 pa and later paid an extra 10/- for shepherding.\\
-,11  **James Stanley and his wife**. It was seen as worth noting that the couple were 'free' emigrants rather than former convicts. They arrived in Sydney possibly on 6 January [the date is hard to decipher] and at //Rosewood// on 1 October 1843. He was hired as a general servant and his wife as a laundress and hutkeeper at a combined wage of £20 pa. TLM-P agreed to pay their passage 'if they conduct themselves properly. One half to be deducted after 6 months the reminder at end of 12 months.' With such a low wage, it was difficult to save so in Sept 1844 TLM-P advanced them £7 to travel to Brisbane and for sundry expenses. Possibly this was the same James Stanley who was employed on //Maroon// in April 1865 as a stockman for £1 per week for 4 weeks, then re-engaged\\
-  **Cornelius? Hughes** hired as as shepherd, hutkeeper and stockman at £10 pa. This amount was doubled to £20 pa due to 'good conduct'. \\
-  **Jeremiah? McCarthy** hired as general servant and possibly shepherd (the word is unclear) on 10 August 1843 at £18 pa. He was discharged in January 1844.\\
-  **Florence McCarthy** hired as general servant on 23 October 1842 for 2 years at £20 pa. This period was reduced to 1 year then in January 1844 she was discharged.\\
-  **John Clarke** in an unknown capacity from 10 December 1844 with wages of £25 pa. [check is this entry for Bromelton? p.31]\\
 ==== Employees at Bugrooperia Station 1848-1849 ====
-A Ledger for Bugrooperia station, Logan River, Queensland, May 1848-1849((MLMSS 3117/Box 6/Item 5)) lists his employees. His male European employees were generally paid much more and more precisely identified than Indigenous, Asian or female employees. Note that, as with the other ledgers, the names are often hard to decipher. Though there is little evidence of personal expenses or his domestic life in these ledgers, he had married in 1846. His first son was born in January 1848 and his second son August 1849 (dying 5 months later). \\
+A Ledger for Bugrooperia station, Logan River, Queensland, May 1848-1849((MLMSS 3117/Box 6/Item 5)) lists his employees. His male European employees were generally paid much more and more precisely identified than Indigenous, Asian or female employees. Note that, as with the other ledgers, the names are often hard to decipher. Though there is little evidence of personal expenses or his domestic life in these ledgers, he had married in 1846. His first son was born in January 1848 and his second son in August 1849 (dying 5 months later). \\
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 **J. Richardson** employed from 25 April 1848 to at least 4 December 1848 (p.1); \\
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 **Patrick C. Sullivan** employed as a builder and servant in 1848 for three months at 12/- week;\\
 **Dennis** (no other name given) employed at £20 pa in August 1849.\\
-**Tinko** 1848, see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\
+**Tinko** 1848, see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list). It would be good to know more about Tinko, and why specifically TLM-P remembered him as 'a very fine fellow.'((Rosa Praed papers, 8370/Box 3, packet 3/1/1/.))\\
 **Eunti** 1848, see above under Chinese indentured labourers (Darnell list)\\
+**Charlie** see above under Indigenous workers.
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 The ledger also shows that he paid accounts to T.S. Mort (e.g. p.2); dairymen Harris & Price (providing butter, cheese etc (e.g. p.2); sold cattle to John McDougal (p.8); and had various transactions with his brother-in-law William Barker (e.g. p.8) as well as J. McConnel Esq; Benjamin Samuda; E. Walker & Jones; A.W. Compeigne. Travellers bought stores from him including D. Graham and Francis Clarke Kerry(?) of nearby Albert River, as well as Watson & Worley, possibly sawyers (loggers). He also owned a one third share of cattle with Captain Collins, worth £46.9.6.\\