Henry Osborne (1803 - 1859), by unknown photographer, courtesy of National Library of Australia. nla.pic-an23149657. .Image Details

OSBORNE, HENRY (1803-1859), pastoralist, was born on 8 February 1803, the youngest of the ten children of Archie Osborne of Dirnaseer, County Tyrone, Ireland. Two of his brothers had migrated to New South Wales and on the advice of one of them he sold his farm and other property for about £3000, invested this in a consignment of Irish linen, married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Marshall of Dromore, County Down, and sailed for Sydney where he arrived in May 1829. He sold his linen at a handsome profit and went to the property of Captain Thompson at Liverpool, where he gained some colonial experience before settling upon a grant of 2560 acres (1036 ha) in the Illawarra near the present town of Dapto. This property, Marshall Mount, entitled him to some twenty-five ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography