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View of homestead, Barraba estate, Ellalong, NSW, William Carter’s home 1829, owned by George Thomas Palmer 1834-1974
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InformationBarraba Homestead ... was built in 1830-1831 by William Carter. George
Thomas Palmer was the second owner of the house, purchasing it in 1834 (OEH 2013 V2 A1: 5). Palmer is
described as gaining possession of the 1280 acre estate called Barraba, ‘lying between Carter’s Track (the
track from Ellalong to Mount Vincent) and the Myall Range’. It is believed that Palmer acquired the
property with a ‘ready made homestead and farm buildings’ and ‘little more than 100 acres had been
cleared’ (Parkes et al. 1979:75). George Thomas Palmer also acquired ‘a narrow 40-acre block on the verge
of the road on the north side of the Barraba’ and approximately a mile north east of Barraba ‘a 1200 acre
portion against the Broken Back, adjacent to a 284 ½ acre portion which E.C. Close acquired later’ (Parkes
et al. 1979:75). The Barraba Estate appears in advertising in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales
Advertiser from 1830. When it was sold to George Thomas Palmer in 1834 the advertisement for the sale
read:
A most superior Estate known by the name of Baraba, formerly the property of William Carter, Esq., distant
from the Green Hills by a bush road, only sixteen miles and by the main road twenty five miles from
Maitland and nearly adjoining Elalang, the Estate of Robert Crawford Esq., This Farm comprises 1280 acres
of rich soil, admirably adapted to agricultural and dairy purposes. The improvements are most extensive
consisting of an excellent verandah house of six rooms, four of them 21 feet in length with under-ground
cellar, detached offices..a most substantial barn with mill-house adjoining, about one hundred feet in
length, with flagged cellar, underneath, intended for the salting of provisions..a stable with loose box,
sufficient to accommodate ten horses; good dairy, of two rooms; tobacco house, also of two rooms.
Upwards of one hundred acres are cleared and burned off, a considerable proportion of which has been
under cultivation, and the fencing comprises a large part of the Estate. The timber on the land is well suited
for building purposes, and very fine cedar may be cut in the neighbourhood (The Sydney Gazette and New
South Wales Advertiser 16 January 1934). Source: https://www.yancoal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AUB9B31.pdf, accessed 5/03/2025Date[1829]
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InformationBarraba Homestead ... was built in 1830-1831 by William Carter. GeorgeThomas Palmer was the second owner of the house, purchasing it in 1834 (OEH 2013 V2 A1: 5). Palmer is
described as gaining possession of the 1280 acre estate called Barraba, ‘lying between Carter’s Track (the
track from Ellalong to Mount Vincent) and the Myall Range’. It is believed that Palmer acquired the
property with a ‘ready made homestead and farm buildings’ and ‘little more than 100 acres had been
cleared’ (Parkes et al. 1979:75). George Thomas Palmer also acquired ‘a narrow 40-acre block on the verge
of the road on the north side of the Barraba’ and approximately a mile north east of Barraba ‘a 1200 acre
portion against the Broken Back, adjacent to a 284 ½ acre portion which E.C. Close acquired later’ (Parkes
et al. 1979:75). The Barraba Estate appears in advertising in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales
Advertiser from 1830. When it was sold to George Thomas Palmer in 1834 the advertisement for the sale
read:
A most superior Estate known by the name of Baraba, formerly the property of William Carter, Esq., distant
from the Green Hills by a bush road, only sixteen miles and by the main road twenty five miles from
Maitland and nearly adjoining Elalang, the Estate of Robert Crawford Esq., This Farm comprises 1280 acres
of rich soil, admirably adapted to agricultural and dairy purposes. The improvements are most extensive
consisting of an excellent verandah house of six rooms, four of them 21 feet in length with under-ground
cellar, detached offices..a most substantial barn with mill-house adjoining, about one hundred feet in
length, with flagged cellar, underneath, intended for the salting of provisions..a stable with loose box,
sufficient to accommodate ten horses; good dairy, of two rooms; tobacco house, also of two rooms.
Upwards of one hundred acres are cleared and burned off, a considerable proportion of which has been
under cultivation, and the fencing comprises a large part of the Estate. The timber on the land is well suited
for building purposes, and very fine cedar may be cut in the neighbourhood (The Sydney Gazette and New
South Wales Advertiser 16 January 1934). Source: https://www.yancoal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AUB9B31.pdf, accessed 5/03/2025
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Geotag[1] Barraba Station, Ellalong, NSWPlaceEllalong, NSW
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D'Ombrain, Athel, 1901-1985, View of homestead, Barraba estate, Ellalong, NSW, William Carter’s home 1829, owned by George Thomas Palmer 1834-1974 ([1829]), [B10397-N0111]. Living Histories, accessed 18/03/2025, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/15452