James Cassady James Cassady Archive. [Archive] (Unpublished)
Summary
James C. Cassady was a pioneer and pastoralist in northern Queensland, particularly in the Herbert River Region. He was born in Anoghal in Antrim, Ireland in 1837 and died at Mungalla Station in Queensland in 1902. His mother and father, Rose and Charles Cassady, emmigrated to Australia in 1849 to escape the potato famine.
This archive consists of a notebook which has had three authors: James and his wife Maria Cecilia Kelly until her death, then their son Francis Andrew O'Connor Cassady. It covers the years 1864-1879 and concerns James Cassady's life at Rosella Plains Station to 1876 and at Fairview near Ingham from 1876-1879. In his wife's hand are shopping lists from Batavia and her fatal year of illness in Sydney in 1867.
In 1882, James Cassady took up Mungalla Station famous for its beef cattle and thoroughbred horses. Mungalla Station was sold to Mr M. Atkinson of Glen Ruth Station, Mt Garnet in 1944.
List of this archive's contents
Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from this Archive will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
The Cassady Family Albums are located in the NQ Photographic Collection.
References
Related publications held in the NQ Collection at James Cook University Library:
Bolton, G.C. (1963). A thousand miles away: A history of North Queensland to 1920. Brisbane, Australia: Jacaranda Press.
Ripley, P. (2005). The Cassady Family in Australia. Ingham, Australia: Pauline Ripley.
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