Dear Friends, Great grandfather's birth (W R MOORE), is shown as Glen Logan in 1841 (Glen Logan civil parish is north west of modern Cowra.) WR's father's occupation is given as "merchant" on the 1843 baptism record of then young Colin Stewart, Presbyterian Minister . An earlier family researcher (now deceased) put his birth at Merriganowry. Possibly family tradition, but cannot be sure. The family arrived from Co. Cavan, Ireland in 1840 as bounty passengers, he a shepherd and wife Sarah a house servant. They were sponsored through A.B. Smith & Co. Both stated that they could read and write. I suspect because they could read and write the "merchant" meant that he managed the "store / shop" for one of the squatters. The prominent initial squatters in that region were Grant, Ranken, Redfern and Sloan. I suspect there were little or no fences. My understanding of the land issues in that region suggests that the squatters runs seemed to have "very flexible" boundaries and descriptions may even have overlapped. The Lachlan River was the "limits of location" or "boundaries of settlement" of the colony. If you crossed the Lachlan to the south-west, you were outside these limits. Cowra as a village didn't exist at that time. The book "Cowra on the Lachlan" by J Marriott, which I own, is very light on details for that period. Wm MOORE is mentioned pg 27, but that is 1854 in Cowra village. Question 1: are there any MAPS, SKETCHES, DESCRIPTIONS etc because all this region was officially unsurveyed until well into the 1850's??? The earliest Civil parish map I can locate dated as 1884. Question 2: WR's father, William, probably overseer and/or store-keeper and or manager for one of the squatters but WHICH ONE??? Where do I start looking ?? I favour John Grant, an Irishman, from Merriganowry Run, but no proof. There is also the possibility that it was on Arthur Ranken's squatters run. Any ideas and suggestions please. Thanks in anticipation, Tony Moore (Castle Hill, NSW)

Hi Tony Lots of info which you may know about http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-NSW-CENTRAL/2012-05/1338426209 Joanne T Flack Sent from my iPad > On Apr 8, 2015, at 10:27 PM, Tony Moore via <aus-nsw@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Great grandfather's birth (W R MOORE), is shown as Glen Logan in 1841 (Glen > Logan civil parish is north west of modern Cowra.) WR's father's > occupation is given as "merchant" on the 1843 baptism record of then young > Colin Stewart, Presbyterian > I suspect because they could read and write the "merchant" meant that he > managed the "store / shop" for one of the squatters. > > The prominent initial squatters in that region were Grant, Ranken, Redfern > and Sloan. I suspect there were little in the subject and the body of the message