Extract of Henry Morgans Diary of Buckland June,1869. 1st. Erecting flume over ? wheel. 3rd. Fixing flume for starting wheel. 4th. Fixing trap door for discharge of water through. 5th. Started the trucks. At 2 o'clock set the mill going. It runs very well. Returning home in the evening found Jane and Ben quite ill of hooping cough. A very wet day. 6th. Sunday fair. Returned in the evening. 7th. Working about mill. 8th. Run the machine one shift. 9th. Quartz looking well. A good many repairs are being made about the mill. 11th. Putting up chimney at mill. 12th. Splitting cap pieces. Returned home. Janes little child Sarah is very ill and not expected to live. Grace and I passed the evening with them. 13th. Sunday. Grace was sent for at 3 o'clock this morning. Sarah gradually sinking. A little after five, father come over and said that the little girl had passed away quarter to five o'clock. A beautiful day but sad the event. 14th. I made the coffin. 15th. Little Sarah was buried at the Lower Flat Cemetery. 16th. Jane is getting better but Ben is more cross than ever. Returned to the Good Hope. 17th. Splitting cap pieces etc for the reef. 19th. Finished here and got home. 20th. Sunday. The children are somewhat better. 22nd. J. Williams child died. It was 10 weeks old. Grace and self went down to their place. I took Williams place at the Nelson reef running machine. G. Shippin consented to continue on from 12 at night until six in the morning 23rd and then I had day light for my shift. 23rd. Running machine. Williams's child was buried. 24th. Grace and I stayed at Williams's last night and to day am cutting firewood for him. 25th. Finished working for J. Williams. 26th. We bought a colonial oven and Grace is well pleased with it. 27th. Sunday - Mr. & Mrs. Williams was our guests. 29th. Had quarrel with Ah Moy and party in which Mrs. An Goon took part in their behalf. I turned the water down my race over their drives against their remonstrances as they would not use the water themselvs. Splitting paling for T Rodda. 30th. Sluicing in the claim with father and J. Walker. Lady Di List Administrator
Extract of Henry Morgans Diary of Buckland July, 1882. lst. Saturday - Ben and I returned home. There has been some showery weather since we went up the river, but on the whole, the weather has been fair. Friday 7th. I have been engaged all this week in the gardens and have the lower garden all dug over and would probably finish the middle one tomorrow if fair- but rain is now falling and the river has risen from last nights rain. Ben and I planted this week onion seeds, tree onions, Potato Onions, Broad Beans, Field Peas, Dwarf Peas, set out about (blank) cabbage plants, Cauliflower, and got the gardens in general good order. The Shire Council of Bright at my recommendation, refused to pay Wm. Oakes a balance of £30.0.0 on an unfinished or defective contract on Omeo road at Mt. Blowhard. 9th. Sunday - weather fair. 10th. Ben and self started at 5 o'clock with wheelbarrow loaded with provision for our new locality, reaching there at 8 a.m. 16th. Sunday. Ben returned yesterday evening to Junction, and I returned this morning - found all well. Have hut covered. 23rd. Sunday, This week we mudded our hut and made a garden, planting out gooseberries, Cherry trees, Raspberries, Blackberries and Eldertrees. George kicked the sewing machine table over and broke the arm during the week. I was the greater part of the day repairing it. 24th. John Weston, a child of about sixteen months old, died this afternoon after a few hours illness, probably from congestion of the lungs. 25th. Made a coffin for John Weston. 26th. John Weston was buried at the Lower Flat cemetery. 27th. Ben and I reached our hut at Sapling Flat, as it is commonly called, at 12 o'clock last night. The night was cold and frosty. There was a little snow on the flat which fell on Tuesday evening. Planted Raspberries and other young trees. 29th. We returned home in the evening. I have been very unwell since Friday; last night I passed a wrestless night. Lady Di List Administrator