Christine and Kim, There are many references in the literature to Mewburn Park, a pastoral run taken up by John Johnson in the 1840s. (1) The Tinamba Parish Map shows the position of the pre-emptive right (640 acres or one square mile) granted to the pastoralist following the 1869 Lands Act when the pastoral leases were broken up during the selection era. (2) Billis and Kenyon "Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip" is an excellent reference for pastoral runs such as Mewburn Park. (3) John Wells, in "Gippsland" (1977), p 55, states: "In the mid-1960s, there were three large runs sending between them about a thousand head a week to Melbourne.". (4) Patrick Morgan, in "The Settling of Gippsland" (1997) refers to Mewburn Park a number of times. A sketch on page 46 shows the position of Mewburn Park Run surrounded by Boisdale, Heyfield, Snake Ridge and Fulham Runs. p.45: "Eight historic runs were taken up between 1841 and 1843 including Mewburn Park (Johnson).. In pages 75-80 there are lengthy references to the "Titchborne case" - the longest trial in English legal history, which became a cause celebre in England. It involved a man named Orton alias Castro who worked at Mewburn Park in the Colony of Victoria in 1855-56.. p 75: - "During the 1840s and 1850s the Vandemonians moved north to the central plain to work on squatting properties owned by fellow VDL colonists like John Foster and John Johnson. These were Hobart entrepreneurs ... Their main properties were at Boisdale and Mewburn Park near Maffra on the central plain." p.77: "In late 1855 the businessman John Johnson employed Orton, among many other VDL workers ... as a butcher and rider on his Gippsland property Mewburn Park. Orton remained there till December 1856 ... Orton -Castro ... had been charged with horse stealing ... and there were dark hints of murder in the background..." Walter Savige