The following is an excerpt from ‘They Came to a Plateau’ (1972) by Jean Harslett and Mervyn Royle.
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Up rode the squatter
Two large district properties are held by families with very long associations with the properties.
“Glenlyon” passed through a number of different owners between 1845 and 1890.
It was briefly held by Messrs. Harden and Walker, Harden living in the fine new house built by Captain Henry Davis and Walker in the smaller and older house on Pike’s Creek.
When the property was acquired in 1890 by Roderick McLeod, it had returned to the family who had first taken up the property in 1844.
The McLeod family had know hardship and adversity, but by determination and effort described by Donald Gunn in “Links with the Past”, had made good.
In turn the property passed to McLeod’s daughter, Enid, who married Francis Percival Walker.
Today the property is held by Scott McLeod Walker the great-grandson of Alexander McLeod.
“Maryland” too, has links which go back from the present owner, Mr. Victor Greenup, to earliest times.
A number of managers acted for M. H. Marsh until Alfred Sothern Greenup came as manager in 1868.
The Greenup family were already related to the Marsh family, but this relationship was consolidated by Greenup’s marriage to Marion, the daughter of Charles William Marsh.
The property remained in the estate of M. H. Marsh, with A.S. Greenup responsible for Marsh’s Australian interests (“Salisbury Court” and “Borralong” near Armidale and “Maryland”) after M.H. Marsh’s death in 1881, but was sold, according the another Marsh descendant now residing at “Salisbury Court”, Sir Bernard Croft, in 1895.
The Greenup family acquired “Maryland” again in 1905, the present owner being the great-grandson of Charles William Marsh who accompanied his brother on the memorable journey of exploration.
