Telfer, William

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Telfer, William

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      • William Telfer, Junior

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      Dates of existence

      1841 – c. 1903

      History

      William Telfer, the younger, was born at Calala (West Tamworth) in July 1841. He was the son of William Telfer, the first Australian Agricultural Company employee to be stationed at Warrah in 1833, and who was employed as a shepherd then first manager of "Warrah", under Commissioner Parry. William Telfer, the senior, had arrived from England in 1825 on the “Brothers”. William Telfer, the younger, is attributed to a journal, published in 1980 as The Wallabadah Manuscript, describing life at Tamworth and the surrounding country which relate to the period from the 1840s to the years after Federation.

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      Tamworth and surrounding district, New South Wales

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      farm manager

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      Entered from deposit description on 23 April 2012

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          Sources

          University of New England, http://www.une.edu.au/heritage/collections/catt.php (accessed on 23 April 2012)
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