Excerpts
from 'Williams River - The land and its People' by R.L. Ford
Page 89
WILLIAM
and JOHN FLANNERY, residing on a Leasehold of a former Church and School
estate, purchased sixty four acres jointly at the Public Auction held on the
10th February 1872 for the sum of one hundred and twenty eight pounds (128),
situated on the west boundary of Joseph Gorton's seventy seven acre purchase.
William Flannery had married Jane Pardy at 'Clonfert' County Galway, Ireland in
October 1832 and came to New South Wales (1855): sons John Flannery married
Charlotte Gorton (1874) and James married Eliza Gorton (1868) daughters of
Joseph Gorton.
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197
JAMES
FLANNERY, son of John and Charlotte (Gorton) Flannery of 'Glen William',
purchased sixty six acres having a frontage to Williams River on the South and
North, and situated on the East boundary of John Campbell's purchase;
subsequently conveyed to various persons and ultimately to merge into one
ownership.
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197
JAMES
FLANNERY, eighty seven acre purchase dated 10th November 1877, situated at the
North boundary of and adjoining his previous purchase and having frontage to
Williams River adjacent to the 'Mill Falls'; Conveyed to his family.
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198
The
CROWN RESERVATION of forty seven acres, by Government Notice of the 11th June
1904 and described as a STOCK WATERING RESERVE, having frontage to Williams
River, situated on the North Boundary of James Flannery's purchase.
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198
JAMES
FLANNERY purchased the Settlement Lease in 1900 of Portions containing
281,370,260 and 142 acres situated on the West boundary of the lands purchased
by William Lowe, John Johnson and his own eighty acre purchase. He subsequently
converted his propery 'Mill Hills' to Freehold, extending Westerly to and
bisected by the Clarence Town to Dungog Road adjacent to Stony Creek and adjoining
Martin Purcell's 280 acre purchase on the Flannery's South boundary.