1830 - 1890 (59 years)
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| Name |
Edward Octavious Douglas |
| Birth |
19 Sep 1830 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
9 Mar 1890 |
| Person ID |
I114963 |
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| Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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| Notes |
- Note: Edward is not listed in The Peerage of the British Empire, 1832
Edward Octavious Douglas lived at Killichassie, Perthshire, Scotland .
£2000 for acquiring land, the brothers Edward and John sailed for Sydney as cabin passengers in the Malacca and arrived in August 1851. In 1854 they went to the Darling Downs and bought, reputedly for £50,000, the 64,000-acre (25,900 ha) station Talgai which in 1853 ran 20,900 sheep. The Douglas brothers found congenial acquaintances among the squatters, many of them newly arrived from Scotland.
Douglas mortgaged them in 1860 to Gilchrist, Watt & Co. to raise £5000, they ran 1991 cattle. He had probably over-stocked and the evidence suggests that the Douglas brothers had not made the profits they expected from squatting. In 1861 Edward returned to Scotland
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