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773/1860 LOCKYER EDMUND EDMUND JOAN SYDNEY MAJOREDMUNDLOCKYER 57th REGIMENT [From "THE COMING OF THE BRITISHTOAUSTRALIA 1788 - 1829" by Lee, Ida (Mrs. Charles BruceMarriott)1906.] 57th Reg iment. At the commencement of 1825 thisRegimentwas stationed as follows: Ensigns W. Lockyer, Benson,Kidd, E.Lockyer, and Wood. 21 SERGEANTS. 8 DRUMMERS. 277 RANKAND FILE.HEADQUARTERS SYDNEY. On 21s t December 1830 TheRegiment was transferred to the Indian Establishment and leftAustralia on the31st of the following March. After he returnedto Sydney aboardH.M. "SUCCESS" on 15th April 1827 Locky erexplored the GroseValley in the Blue Mountains in an attempt tofind an alternative route from Sydney to the western plains, butwasunsuccessful in his quest. On 8th November, having decidedtosett le permanently in Australia, he sold his commissionandretired from the Army, settling near Parramatta in N.S.W.whereh e was appointed a Police Magistrate. There he built ahouse onan estate near Ryd e, which he called Ermington, whichhas sincebecome the name of a Sydney suburb. On Christmas Day1826 asmall brig named Amity slipped thankfully out ofthestorm-ridden Great Southern Ocean into th e relative calm ofKingGeorge Sound. On board was Major Edmund Lockyer and a partyoftroops and convicts sent from Sydney t o establish apenaloutpost of the N.S.W. Government. From these inauspiciousbeginnings grew the first European settlement in what isnowWestern Australia. Despite his skepticism Governor RalphDarlingarranged for a party to leave Sy dney for the Sound assoon aspossible. On 9 th November 1826 the Amity set sail withtwomilitary officers, eighteen rank and file soldiers, twentythreeconvicts and a surgeon to found the first settlement inWesternAustralia. In charge of t h e expedition to assess theSound'ssuitability for a penal settlement was Major EdmundLockyer(1784-1860), a career soldier since 1805, who arrived inSydneyin April 1825 with a detachment of the 57t h Regiment.Second incommand and engineer w as Captain Joseph Wakefield,like Lockyera career soldier who had served in the NapoleonicWars. Othersamong the party were Lockyer's son Edmund who served asstorekeeper, and the surgeon Isaac Scott Nind. Theconvictsthemselves were, as fa r as is known, wisely chosen forthesuccessful establishment of a new settlement. TheyincludedDennis Dineen (blac ksmith), James Shuttleworth(carpenter), JohRyan (sawyer) and John Brown (gardener). Onlytwo days aftertheir arrival a party o f Lockyer's men wereattacked by a groupof Aboriginals without any provo cation .Theconvict blacksmithDennis Dineen, Western Australias struck bythree spears andseriously wounded, and others would have beenwounded if thealarm had not been raised in time. On the 6th June 1828Governor Darling appointed him Principal Surveyor of RoadsandBridges, at an annual salary of 600 Pounds. However theColonialOffice in London decided to abolish this position, andorderedthat t he duties be performed by a ssistants of theSurveyorGeneral's Office, and thus on 1st January 1830 Lockyerhandedover his responsibilities to Mr T L Mitchell, theSurveyorGeneral. During his period i n office, Lockyer hadbeenassociated with the building of part of th e Great SouthRoad.In December 1829 he once again became a Police MagistrateatParramatta, and from February to December 1830 was alsoappointed Superintendent of Police. Word of his exploitsinAustralia must have reached England, for on 25th March 1831hewas made a Freeman of the Borough of Plymouth. After hisperiodof duty in W estern Australia, Lockyer was promised 2,560acresof land near Goulburn in the Ma rulan district of N.S.W.inrecognition of his service at King George Sound. In 1835thisproperty was granted to Lockye r, and he named itLOCKYERSLEIGH.By 1837 he had purchased a further 3,635 acres,and in 1838 heleased and stocked CAVAN, a sit e of great naturalbeauty at thejunction of the Murrumbidgee and Goodradi gbeeRivers. Hecontinued to add to his estate, and by 1853Lockyersleigh hadgrown in size to 11,810 acres. In 1899 - 1900Lockyersleigh wasone of the locations promote d as a possiblesite for theFede ral Capital of Australia, and although it wasnot ultimatelyselected, it was duly inspected by Mr A Oliver theCommissioneron Sites for the Seat of Government of theCommonwealth. It isinteresting t o note tha t while Lockyerreceived a small grantof land, he was denied the larger grantsto which he had lookedforward under the regulations which thenexisted for theencouragement of the settlemen t of ex-armyofficers in N.S.W..The reason for the refusa l was that toconform with theregulations, Lockyer should have retired fromthe Army before heleft England for Australia in 1825. Lockyerplay ed an activerole in the local community, and in 1842 he wasa prominentmember of an association whi ch was formed to gainpermission toimport workers from INDIA. In 1843 he announced hisintention ofs tanding in the election for the N.S.W. LegislativeCouncilwhich were to be held in July, but he appears not tohavepursued his ambitions in thi s area, as the SydneyMorningHerald reported that "heari ng nothing more of it wepresume hehas also given up". Lockyer also played a leading partin theanti-transportation movement which was active in Goulburnfrom1843-1850. Deposits of iron ore were disc overedatLockyersleigh, and a mine was established. Ore from thisminewas used in the construction of the first railway in N.S.W.andthe spade which was used to cut the first turf for theSydneyRailwa y Company in J uly 1850, Western Australias madefrom ironore taken from Lockyer's estate. Although the mine alsoshowedindications of copper deposits, it was eventuallyabandoned forlack of labour du e to the gold rush. Over 30 yearslater thewall of the mine shaft whic h Lockyer had sunk wasfound tocontain gold, however this was not present insufficientquantities to make mining it commerciall y viable. On1st May1852 Lockyer was appointed Sergeant-at Arms to theN.S.W.Legislative Council, and on 20th May 1856 he was madeUsher ofthe Black Rod of the Legislative Council. His secondwife S arahdied on 11th July 1853 aged 68 years, and on 18thNovember 1854he married his third wife Eliza Colston. Duringthe Russian warscare of 1854, although aged 70 years, Lockyerenlisted in theN.S.W . VOLUNTEER INFANTRY with the rank ofCAPTAIN. In 1855 hiswife gave birth to a son, Nicholas, wholater became a leadingN.S.W. and Commonwealth Public Servant,and who was knighted in1926. MAJOR EDM UND LOCKYER died at hishome, YORK HOUSE at BayStreet WOOLLOOMOOLOO, on 10th June 1860aged 76 years and wasburied in the Camperdown Cemetery inSydney. On 12th March 1936a memorial to Major Lockye r wasunveiled at Residency Point inALBANY WA, at the spot where helanded in 1826 to establish thefirst British Settlement inWestern Australia, and where by hisproclamation of 21st January1827 , th e whole of the AustralianContinent was officiallybrought under the control of theBritishCrown.**************************************************************************** Place name Lockyer In 182 5 Major EdmundLockyer,57th Regiment, Western Australias sent to Moreton BaybyGovernor Brisbane to investigate a report that John Gray,duringan expedition out from the settlement, had come acros s atribeof white-skinned people who carried bows an d arrows. Hehadwith him Thomas Robinson, a sailor who had been in Gray'spartyearlier that year, and Robinson was able to lead them totheplace i n the Brisbane Valley where the sighting was supposedtohave occurred, but no light-skinned tri be could be found.Whileon this expedition up the Brisbane river by boat, Lockyercameto a large creek r unning in from the west and marked thison hismap. Cunningham later referred to this as Lockyer's Creek,andthe name became official. He also gave Lockyer' s name toaplain which he discovered on hi s travels in the area.EdmundLockyer had been in the army about twenty-two years, mostof itspent in India and Ceylon, at the time of this expedition.Hehad come to the N.S.W. colony earlier that sam e year. Intheyear following his visit to Moreton Bay he was sent bytheGovernor to choose a site for a settlement and to establishiton King George Sound on the North-West Coast of thecontinent.Thi s was to forestall any colonising move on the shore of NewHolland by the French. He was recalled after a shortperiod, andthe Swann River settlement was developed instead. In1827Lockyer exchanged h is army life for that of a propertyowner andgovernment official. He acquired lands around N.S.W.,and servedas Police Magistrate and Superintendent of Police atParramatta,Sergeant-at-arms in the Leg islati ve Council andUsher of theBlack Rod in the N.S.W. Parliament. He marriedDorothea Agathade Ly, 12 August, 1806, in Ceylon. They had onechild. When hecame to Australia he was accompanied by hi ssecond wife, SarahMorris. She had eleven children . After Sarahdied in 1854, hemarried Eliza Colston and she bore him threechildren. He died1860 at the age of76.Source:http://www.ucaqld.com.au/~piula/Placenames/page38.html(Now, June2007,http://www.dovenetq.net.au/~piula/Placenames/page36.html)
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