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I'm enjoying reading your posts and your reminiscing. I bought my farm off a William (Bill) Balsom. Bill bought the farm by buying into a partnership with his older brother, and had eventually bought his brother out.
His older brother had done the same thing, by buying into a partnership with their oldest brother and he too had eventually bought the oldest brother out.
The oldest brother had bought the farm from the Wright brothers, they too were in a partnership, and were still in partnership when they sold up just after WWII.
Winefride (Winnie,) Wright, the only child of both Wright brothers, married Colin Malcom.
Not long after I'd bought the farm I asked Mrs Malcom (nicely,) if she could put to paper her memories of the place.
She was terribly pleased that I was interested enough in the history of the place to take the trouble to find out more about it.
She came up trumps.
She wrote about the struggles of two English immigrants coming to a block of solid bush halfway up the side of a mountain, who had no knowledge of farming of any description, and were the first people to settle and work on this virgin block.
She really did a great job, describing the wild bush fires of the 30's, unco-operative horses, the actual clearing and draining of the place...I was both pleased and impressed.
I'd also approached the Balsoms to do the same.
They managed to write half a page as against Winnie's 'book'.

Then I realised I'd better do the same myself.
So I did.
I now have the written history of what was my farm going back over 100 years.

Don't really know what to do with it now.
Today's kids couldn't care less.