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25-11-12, 08:32
Name: John Sloman
Date and place of birth: 15 August 1823 Milverton, Somerset (Glen Innes History House)
Names of parents: John Sloman and Amy Pring
Date and place of baptism: 10 October 1823 Milverton, Somerset (David Cheek Index)
Marriages:
1. Sarah Musgrave Callard, C of E, Nether Stowey, Somerset on 9 September 1846 (Marriage Cert)
2. Sarah Jane Rice Glen Innes Reg. No. 9158 in 1902
Occupation(s): John was an agricultural labourer at Preston Bowyer near Milverton in 1841 and at Broomfield in Somerset in 1847. With Sarah and Charles they arrived in Sydney on the 12 June 1848 on the “Canton” - Sarah reputedly taught John to write on voyage out. Assisted immigrants terms of indenture were 12 months free labourer with rations and lodging. John was assigned to Oswald Bloxsome at “Rangers Valley” outside Glen Innes and they were there in 1849 when their eldest daughter Mary Musgrave Sloman was born.
John’s sister Elizabeth May and her husband William and family arrived at Rangers Valley in May 1849. Within a few years both families were engaged in partnership as carriers, hauling wool by bullock team from New England down the “Old Line”, to the ports of Grafton and “The Elbow”, (Lawrence) on the “Big River” (Clarence River). As early as 1851 they had a hut on “Dundee” Station and a resting place for their bullock teams. In 1856, William Sloman, John’s youngest brother, arrived to add to the manpower.
In 1863, while returning to the New England region, after another successful trip to Grafton with wool, William Sloman, William May and his son Eli, were drowned in the “Great Flood”. Unbeknown to the teamsters, who had camped beside the river near Tabulam, heavy rains in the upper reaches, sent a wall of water down the Big River. John Sloman was left to carry on the business alone and as late as 1872 he transported the Dundee Flour Mill to “Bolivia” station for Edward Irby.
However agriculture was John Sloman’s true calling and over a 45 year period he acquired land, both freehold and leasehold, which he named “Severn Farm.” At the time of his death in 1906, John was reputed to be own one of the most compact estates in the New England district. (In 1889, John had acquired Dundee Plain from Oswald Bloxsome.)
John introduced the first seed drill into New England; established the first stud in the district (draught horse); was eulogised as being one of the best men behind a plough in the north and is on record as having grown a ‘savoy’ cabbage 4 feet high with a circumference in excess of 13 feet!
Addresses where they lived: (Born) Milverton, Somerset; (1841 Census) Preston Bower, near Milverton; Somerset; (Marriage) Nether Stowey, Somerset; (Charles baptism) Broomfield, Somerset; “Rangers Valley Station” NSW (1849 Oswald Bloxsome’s workman); Dundee NSW, eventually “Severn Farm”.
Date, place and cause of death: 25 October 1906 Dundee, NSW
Date and place of burial: October 1906 Dundee, NSW (Dundee Cemetery Book)
Details of will / administration of their estate: Need to find
Memorial inscription: Need to locate
Children: 1847 Charles (Broomfield, Somerset), 1849 Mary Musgrave (Rangers Valley NSW), 1853 John Thomas & 1855 William Henry (Dundee NSW), 1858 Elizabeth, 1860 Amy, 1863 Frederick James. (Registered Wellingrove, now Glen Innes NSW)
Date and place of birth: 15 August 1823 Milverton, Somerset (Glen Innes History House)
Names of parents: John Sloman and Amy Pring
Date and place of baptism: 10 October 1823 Milverton, Somerset (David Cheek Index)
Marriages:
1. Sarah Musgrave Callard, C of E, Nether Stowey, Somerset on 9 September 1846 (Marriage Cert)
2. Sarah Jane Rice Glen Innes Reg. No. 9158 in 1902
Occupation(s): John was an agricultural labourer at Preston Bowyer near Milverton in 1841 and at Broomfield in Somerset in 1847. With Sarah and Charles they arrived in Sydney on the 12 June 1848 on the “Canton” - Sarah reputedly taught John to write on voyage out. Assisted immigrants terms of indenture were 12 months free labourer with rations and lodging. John was assigned to Oswald Bloxsome at “Rangers Valley” outside Glen Innes and they were there in 1849 when their eldest daughter Mary Musgrave Sloman was born.
John’s sister Elizabeth May and her husband William and family arrived at Rangers Valley in May 1849. Within a few years both families were engaged in partnership as carriers, hauling wool by bullock team from New England down the “Old Line”, to the ports of Grafton and “The Elbow”, (Lawrence) on the “Big River” (Clarence River). As early as 1851 they had a hut on “Dundee” Station and a resting place for their bullock teams. In 1856, William Sloman, John’s youngest brother, arrived to add to the manpower.
In 1863, while returning to the New England region, after another successful trip to Grafton with wool, William Sloman, William May and his son Eli, were drowned in the “Great Flood”. Unbeknown to the teamsters, who had camped beside the river near Tabulam, heavy rains in the upper reaches, sent a wall of water down the Big River. John Sloman was left to carry on the business alone and as late as 1872 he transported the Dundee Flour Mill to “Bolivia” station for Edward Irby.
However agriculture was John Sloman’s true calling and over a 45 year period he acquired land, both freehold and leasehold, which he named “Severn Farm.” At the time of his death in 1906, John was reputed to be own one of the most compact estates in the New England district. (In 1889, John had acquired Dundee Plain from Oswald Bloxsome.)
John introduced the first seed drill into New England; established the first stud in the district (draught horse); was eulogised as being one of the best men behind a plough in the north and is on record as having grown a ‘savoy’ cabbage 4 feet high with a circumference in excess of 13 feet!
Addresses where they lived: (Born) Milverton, Somerset; (1841 Census) Preston Bower, near Milverton; Somerset; (Marriage) Nether Stowey, Somerset; (Charles baptism) Broomfield, Somerset; “Rangers Valley Station” NSW (1849 Oswald Bloxsome’s workman); Dundee NSW, eventually “Severn Farm”.
Date, place and cause of death: 25 October 1906 Dundee, NSW
Date and place of burial: October 1906 Dundee, NSW (Dundee Cemetery Book)
Details of will / administration of their estate: Need to find
Memorial inscription: Need to locate
Children: 1847 Charles (Broomfield, Somerset), 1849 Mary Musgrave (Rangers Valley NSW), 1853 John Thomas & 1855 William Henry (Dundee NSW), 1858 Elizabeth, 1860 Amy, 1863 Frederick James. (Registered Wellingrove, now Glen Innes NSW)