William Joyner purchased the “Samsonvale Run” in 1845 from Darling Downs squatters James Sibley and Joseph King.
He died in 1847 in a shipping accident, and his wife, Isabella decided to sail up from Sydney and manage the property.
This irrigation dam is about a kilometer from where the family built “Aust House” in 1865.
This area is rarely visited, and some of the scrub is very thick. It made me wonder what Isabella would have thought of it when she arrived in 1847.
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