George Cheyne

Description

Biographical informationGeorge Cheyne, Trader, agriculturist, whaler, sandalwooder, arrived on 2 June 1831 per Sterling chartered jointly with Marshall McDermott. He married Grace Melville b. 1798. They adopted Emily Trimmer. He brought servants and a prefabricated house from Sweden. He was granted 16,600 acres and settled in Albany in 1831 and in Cape Riche in 1836.

He was a magistrate and in 1858 he opened the first flour mill in Albany. He brought out the Moir and Muir families, but returned to Scotland c .1860. Date of birth1790Date of death1869

Document

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Person

Alexander McLaren Moir

Connections

Subject (place)AlbanyFremantleRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionCelebrating 200 Years - National Foundation for Australia-China Relations Project

Item information

ContributorSchool of Social SciencesSource of informationThe Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians

UWA Collected

George Cheyne

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA