Christine et al, A detailed history of Mewburn Park is given by Wal Vardy in "Beneath Blue Hills - a History of Mewburn Park, Tinamba and Riverslea." (Bairnsdale, 1994), pp 5-12. Selected extracts are as follows:: Page 5: "Johnson was granted the licence for Mewburn Park in April 1847. It included all the land between the Macalister and Thomson Rivers. The boundary ran north and south between the two rivers, just south of Heyfield and enclosed some 38,000 acres - most in the Parish of Tinamba. Captain John Johnson-Boe was a seafaring man and owned a number of vessels trading around Australia in 1840. He lived with his wife and family in Hobart Town, Tasmania. Maffra's main street is named after him. Born at Bergen in Norway, Johnson-Boe was christened 'Knud Olia Boe' ... His eldest son John Canute Johnson died in December 1870, aged 29 years ..." "In 1854 John Johnson under his preemptive right to purchase a square mile on his run for freehold land, acquired 640 acres of Mewburn Park. The area was west of Maffra on the northern side of the Maffra-Tinamba Road where he built his home and out-buildings, all from bricks made on the property." Page 6: " In 1856 some of the workers at Mewburn Park included: ... Neil Weir (carpenter) ..." Vardy makes no mention of the presence of Vandemonians or the notorious Orton alias Castro at Mewburn Park. Patrick Morgan in "The Settling of Gippsland", states: Page 75: "During the trials readers of the English and Australian press were regaled with detailed descriptions of daily life on the Boisdale and Mewburn Park runs where the claimant to the Titchborne title worked in the 1850s." Page 77: "Thomas Castro claimed to be the missing aristocrat ... He went to England, was accepted by his mother but rejected by the rest of the family. In May 1871 ... he sued to have the estates returned to him. After a trial lasting 10 months he was unsuccessful. He was immediately charged with perjury and another marathon trial, the longest in English legal history at that stage from April 1873 to February 1874, ensued. The claimant was found guilty and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment.. These long trials and their preliminaries kept England and Australia engrossed for a decade ..." Walter Savige