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Dalgety Downs

Posted: 18 Aug 2002 12:00AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 11 Aug 2008 12:20PM GMT
Surnames: Dalgety
Looking for any information regarding Dalgety Downs especially details of the Dalgety family that settled there.
Thank you.
Regards
Allan

Re: Dalgety Downs

elaine (View posts)
Posted: 23 Jul 2006 12:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Jul 2014 11:23AM GMT
Surnames: Dalgety
was it named after the dalgety family??
contact bonbon9@westnet.com.au who is writing history of the gascoyne currently.

Re: Dalgety Downs

Posted: 22 Jul 2008 6:23PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Jul 2014 11:23AM GMT
Surnames: Dalgety
There is a family of Dalgety residing in the Geraldton area who came from Dalgety Staion, This family were given the name Dalgety after the station.

Re: Dalgety Downs

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 2:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Jul 2014 11:24AM GMT
The name rings a bell to me - i may know someone who could give you a lot of info. I will contact them tomorrow nad check for you

michelle

Re: Dalgety Downs

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 3:05PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Jul 2014 11:24AM GMT
Surnames: DALGETY
Perhaps the following may offer you some clues...

The stout hearts and pioneer spirits of the Fitzpatrick family of "Dairy Creek" and "Dalgety Downs" stations in Western Australia.
Author: Merton G. J. Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 0864451768.

1951 Marriage
ADA DALGETY-DOWNS, married WILLIAM EAGAN
Gascoyne registration district
registration number 6

Re: Dalgety Downs

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 3:32PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Jul 2014 11:24AM GMT
A nice picture of the homestead can be found in the following...

Inventory of tourism assets on Department of Conservation and Land Management rangeland properties: Gascoyne and Murchison regions, Western Australia.
Authors: Amanda J Smith, Michael Hughes, David Wood and John Glasson
ISBN 9781920965501

Dalgety Downs Station
Dalgety Downs was named after Mt Dalgety or Dalgety creek by the first lessees, James and Merton Fitzpatrick
Dalgety Downs was sectioned off from Dairy Creek Station in 1904 and the homestead was built by Billy Jackson.
Dairy Creek was settled by the John Bernard Fitzpatrick in 1883.
Dalgety Downs was run as a sheep station but also bread draught horses in 1909 and in 1911, the Fitzpatrick’s overlanded 170 camels to Dalgety Downs with the help of their six best indigenous stockmen and the two station house girls.
Forty of the camels were sold en route and the remaining 130 were bred to replace draught horses as a means to transport wool in the area.
James Fitzpatrick died in 1923 and Merton Fitzpatrick retired from the station in 1927. In the 1930s Mr Allen
was the overseer of Dalgety Downs.

Aboriginal presence was also noted on Dalgety Downs in 1904 where James and Merton Fitzpatrick encountered people camping near Dalgety creek.
The local name for the area was Coondie, it was a popular spot to replenish stocks of waddies and boomerangs, as a very hard wood grew in abundance in this area

The Fitzpatrick’s spoke some of the local dialect and befriended the local indigenous people, signing many of the families as station hands.

Unions between European men and Aboriginal women are described in verbal and written historical accounts.
Children from these unions were sent to New Norcia to be baptised and educated by the Benedictines.

In 1927, as part of the Aborigines Act Amendment Act 19111 and State Children Act Amendment Act 1919, the
women (aged in their early 20s) and children were forcibly taken by police and placed aboard the steamer ‘Gascoyne’ and shipped steerage to Fremantle, from where they were transferred to the Moore River Mission. Other children also considered at the time as ‘half-caste’ would also have been forcibly removed from the station.

My opinion only....
It is possible the Aboriginal people removed from the station may have used Dalgety as a surname.

There are 2 marriages registered in the Moora district during the 1940s - Ralph Dalgety and Robert Dalgety
2 women named Dalgety married in 1947, one in Perth and the other in Blackwood district.

HTH

Re: Dalgety Downs

Posted: 21 Mar 2014 4:19AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Jul 2014 11:25AM GMT
Hi Allen,
My name is Louise Dalgety I am a descendent from Dolly Bidgemia who was my Great great grandmother. Dolly lived and worked around the Dalgety Downs and Dairy Creek area.
Dolly had a daughter Kitty Noble (née Wadarby), Kitty and her 1st cousin Ivy Wolgar had a number of children to Morten Fitzpartick these children were forcibly removed and sent down to Moore River Settlement. My grand mother Eva Dalgety was one of these children.

A lot has been written about the white history of Dalgety Downs, but not a lot about the Aboriginal history.

Re: Dalgety Downs

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 8:10AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Jul 2014 11:25AM GMT
Louise, since you have roots in that area,why don't you write the Aboriginal history of the place? It would be great have your perspective.
In the mid-1980's the Steadman family owned both Dalgety Downs and Dairy Creek Stations. I have no idea whether they still run these properties. At Dairy Creek, the Aboriginal stockman was called Mervyn , who struck me at the time as being very competent at his job, . He lived on the station with his wife Doreen. There was also an old Aboriginal stockman around the place, known as Jimmy Dingo, who was well-respected by the pastoralists.

Do you know anything about the rock formation called the Mexican Hats/Huts in the area? The area had obviously been part of an ancient seabed, as the rock formations had embedded seashells.

Kika

Re: Dalgety Downs

Posted: 23 May 2015 12:20AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Allan,
May I ask why it is you seek information on the Dalgety/Dalgetty families ?
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