Kilmany

Kilmany is looking beautiful and certainly Lilly and Alex [Gooch, her brother and sister-in-law] have not spared themselves.

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Mr. Pearson was at one time the owner of Bonegilla Station, near Wodonga, which he sold on succeeding to the Kilmany Park Estate.

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William Pearson, of Kilmany Park, Sale, and Craigellachie, East St. Kilda, which took place at the latter place on Thursday afternoon [August 10, 1893].

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He drove cattle over to the Gippsland plains, and after a temporary occupation of Lindenow, pushed on, and established himself at Kilmany, being greatly attracted by the magnificent plains between the two rivers, the Glengarry and the Thomson.

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The eldest of these was our pioneering great-great-grandfather, William Pearson of Kilmany Park, near Sale in east Gippsland.

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The rusticizing “cottage” windowframes, and doors, with wrought-iron latches, could not have been more different from, or modern than, the elaborate drawing room at Kilmany Park (q.v.).

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As a Member of Parliament, William Pearson took an active interest in defence matters, and was from time to time co-opted onto colonial defence committees as, for example, when he received the following urgent 27-word official cable from the Bourke Street East Post Office addressed to Kilmany Park at 7.12 a.m. on March 5, 1900:

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While not managing his bank, practising as a stock and station agent, or running his property called Bald Hills, William Borthwick was an auxiliary officer in the Australian Light Horse, with various responsibilities, it seems, to do with cavalry training, which took place each year at Kilmany Park.

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The wedding breakfast at Kilmany Park was a particularly happy one, and there were no speeches.

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Reenie Crooke (Irene), or perhaps another of the Crookes of Holey Plain, who shared a long boundary with Kilmany Park, comes next.

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