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Gregory Blaxland was born 17 June 1778 at Fordwich, Kent, England, the fourth son of John Blaxland, mayor from 1767 to 1774, whose family had owned estates nearby for generations, and Mary, daughter of Captain Parker, R.N. Gregory attended The King's School, Canterbury. In July 1799 in the church of St George the Martyr there, he married 20 ...
An expedition led by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth in 1813 was the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales by European settlers. [3] The crossing enabled the settlers to access and use the land west of the mountains for farming, and made possible the establishment of Australia's first ...
184 hectares (455 acres) of Cox's estate was acquired by D'Arcy Wentworth in 1805 and then by Gregory Blaxland in 1807. [2] Blaxland was a free settler who arrived in 1806 from Kent, where his family had lived since St. Augustine's time, on an estate called "Newington". Gregory was less sociable than his brother John, who arrived in the colony ...
Blaxland was born in Kent, the eldest son of gentleman farmer John Blaxland and Mary, née Parker, of Fordwich, Kent, England. He was the older brother of early Australian explorer Gregory Blaxland. His father died when he was eleven [1] and the family moved to Canterbury where he and his brother were educated at The King's School. In 1787 he ...
Wentworth, Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson led the 1813 expedition across the Blue Mountains, ... was a member of the aristocratic Anglo-Irish Wentworth family, ...
By 1835 Spurway had become overseer of the convicts working on the Brush Farm estate. His masters were Gregory Blaxland and then Blaxland's son-in law, Thomas Foster, who purchased the estate in 1831. [1] Spurway received his ticket of leave in 1838 and leased a farm from Foster adjoining Brush Farm where he established his own orchard.
Helen Blaxland was the daughter of Brigadier General Sir Robert M. McCheyne Anderson and Jean Cairns (née Amos) Anderson. She was educated at Bedales School in England and later at Frensham School in Mittagong, New South Wales. [4] She married Gregory Blaxland on 8 November 1927. [6] They had one child, a daughter, Antonia, who became a ...
Forster was born in Madras, India, the son of Thomas Forster, army surgeon, and his wife Eliza Blaxland, daughter of Gregory Blaxland.His parents married in Sydney and travelled to India in 1817, Wales in 1822, Ireland in 1825 and settled down in 1829 in Brush Farm, [1] Eastwood, built by Blaxland in about 1820, and the birthplace of the Australian wine industry. [2]