Looking for any information regarding Dalgety Downs especially details of the Dalgety family that settled there. Thank you. Regards Allan
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was it named after the dalgety family?? contact bonbon9@westnet.com.au who is writing history of the gascoyne currently.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Hi Allan, May I ask why it is you seek information on the Dalgety/Dalgetty families ?
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