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All three explorers took up pastoral runs: Henry formed Baroondah, a sheep and cattle station on the Dawson River in 1860 and in 1861 leased Mount McConnell on the Burdekin River Selheim took up Strathmore on the Bowen and Dalrymple the Valley of the Lagoons.
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In 1859 when Queensland was separated from New South Wales he travelled overland to Brisbane and with George Dalrymple and Philip Sellheim explored the region of the Bowen and Burdekin Rivers, following the latter to the Valley of the Lagoons. With his brothers, Arthur and Alfred, he arrived at Melbourne in February 1858. He returned to England after the Crimean war broke out and was commissioned an ensign but was invalided before the war ended. The lands of the Henrys were confiscated and the grandfather, James, settled in Jamaica as a sugar planter: when he died his sons, James and Charles Edward, were taken to England by their mother.Īt 16 Ernest made his first voyage to Australia as a junior officer in the Victoria of the Australian Royal Mail Steamship Co. In the war of independence (1775-1783) they espoused the Loyalist cause and the sons fought against the American rebels.
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The family had migrated to North America from Ayrshire, Scotland, in the early seventeenth century and settled on land near Boston. Ernest Henry (1837-1919), pastoralist and founder of copperfields and towns, was born on at Harrington, Cumberland, England, the second of four sons of Captain James Henry and his wife Mary Francis, fourth daughter of John Norris of Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire.