William was working as a pig dealer in Bristol, when he was sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing a quantity of wood, turnip seed, a wool poke and a sack from a granary at Seaham Farm. On 6 January 1825 he sailed from Cork, Ireland on the vessel Asia I and arrived in Sydney on 29 April 1825. He was assigned to various settlers including the 'Galloping Parson' Rev Thomas Hassall, before obtaining his Certificate of Freedom 1831.
He worked as an overseer at 'Salem Vale', Mulgowrie NSW and was responsible for the construction of the old stone homestead near Mulgowrie Creek, now only a ruin. He was also employed in Mulgowrie Boiling Down Works, where they boiled down the carcases of slaughtered wild horses for the tallow content. The residue was used to feed pigs, which William sold for profit.
He raced horses, including 'Dentist' which won the 'Binda Purse' of twenty sovereigns at the race meeting at 'Funny Hill' (3).
In 1858 he purchased the property 'Sletes Gully' located in Bigga NSW from Richard Moses for 350 pounds. He renamed it 'Markdale' and worked there as a farmer and grazier. This property is still in existence today.
In 1861 he was killed in a fatal accident whilst riding a horse on his way home from Binda. He had just whipped the animal into a gallop when it ran him up against a tree.
Contributor: Ngaire Hanson (49134204) • [email protected]
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The Yass Courier (NSW) Sat. 23 March 1861, p.3
FATAL ACCIDENT. —Yesterday, about eleven a.m., Mr. William Marks, of Markdale, Georgiana, was returning home from Binda, where he had been on business accompanied by his son. In the course of conversation he expressed an opinion that the horse he was riding could race, and that he could beat the horse that had walked over for one of the prizes at the Laggan races the day before. He then gave his horse the whip and started him into a gallop. The animal, a very head strong one, became almost unmanageable, and ran Mr. up against a tree. He was struck full on the forehead, and immediately fell. His son came up directly and raised the body, but life had fled. So violent was the collision that the tree where struck by the deceased's head, looked as if a blow had been inflicted by a large stone or a hammer. Mr. Marks was about sixty-five years of age and was perhaps the oldest resident in his neighborhood, where he had lived between thirty and forty years.— Goulburn Herald.
He worked as an overseer at 'Salem Vale', Mulgowrie NSW and was responsible for the construction of the old stone homestead near Mulgowrie Creek, now only a ruin. He was also employed in Mulgowrie Boiling Down Works, where they boiled down the carcases of slaughtered wild horses for the tallow content. The residue was used to feed pigs, which William sold for profit.
He raced horses, including 'Dentist' which won the 'Binda Purse' of twenty sovereigns at the race meeting at 'Funny Hill' (3).
In 1858 he purchased the property 'Sletes Gully' located in Bigga NSW from Richard Moses for 350 pounds. He renamed it 'Markdale' and worked there as a farmer and grazier. This property is still in existence today.
In 1861 he was killed in a fatal accident whilst riding a horse on his way home from Binda. He had just whipped the animal into a gallop when it ran him up against a tree.
Contributor: Ngaire Hanson (49134204) • [email protected]
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The Yass Courier (NSW) Sat. 23 March 1861, p.3
FATAL ACCIDENT. —Yesterday, about eleven a.m., Mr. William Marks, of Markdale, Georgiana, was returning home from Binda, where he had been on business accompanied by his son. In the course of conversation he expressed an opinion that the horse he was riding could race, and that he could beat the horse that had walked over for one of the prizes at the Laggan races the day before. He then gave his horse the whip and started him into a gallop. The animal, a very head strong one, became almost unmanageable, and ran Mr. up against a tree. He was struck full on the forehead, and immediately fell. His son came up directly and raised the body, but life had fled. So violent was the collision that the tree where struck by the deceased's head, looked as if a blow had been inflicted by a large stone or a hammer. Mr. Marks was about sixty-five years of age and was perhaps the oldest resident in his neighborhood, where he had lived between thirty and forty years.— Goulburn Herald.
William was working as a pig dealer in Bristol, when he was sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing a quantity of wood, turnip seed, a wool poke and a sack from a granary at Seaham Farm. On 6 January 1825 he sailed from Cork, Ireland on the vessel Asia I and arrived in Sydney on 29 April 1825. He was assigned to various settlers including the 'Galloping Parson' Rev Thomas Hassall, before obtaining his Certificate of Freedom 1831.
He worked as an overseer at 'Salem Vale', Mulgowrie NSW and was responsible for the construction of the old stone homestead near Mulgowrie Creek, now only a ruin. He was also employed in Mulgowrie Boiling Down Works, where they boiled down the carcases of slaughtered wild horses for the tallow content. The residue was used to feed pigs, which William sold for profit.
He raced horses, including 'Dentist' which won the 'Binda Purse' of twenty sovereigns at the race meeting at 'Funny Hill' (3).
In 1858 he purchased the property 'Sletes Gully' located in Bigga NSW from Richard Moses for 350 pounds. He renamed it 'Markdale' and worked there as a farmer and grazier. This property is still in existence today.
In 1861 he was killed in a fatal accident whilst riding a horse on his way home from Binda. He had just whipped the animal into a gallop when it ran him up against a tree.
Contributor: Ngaire Hanson (49134204) • [email protected]
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The Yass Courier (NSW) Sat. 23 March 1861, p.3
FATAL ACCIDENT. —Yesterday, about eleven a.m., Mr. William Marks, of Markdale, Georgiana, was returning home from Binda, where he had been on business accompanied by his son. In the course of conversation he expressed an opinion that the horse he was riding could race, and that he could beat the horse that had walked over for one of the prizes at the Laggan races the day before. He then gave his horse the whip and started him into a gallop. The animal, a very head strong one, became almost unmanageable, and ran Mr. up against a tree. He was struck full on the forehead, and immediately fell. His son came up directly and raised the body, but life had fled. So violent was the collision that the tree where struck by the deceased's head, looked as if a blow had been inflicted by a large stone or a hammer. Mr. Marks was about sixty-five years of age and was perhaps the oldest resident in his neighborhood, where he had lived between thirty and forty years.— Goulburn Herald.
He worked as an overseer at 'Salem Vale', Mulgowrie NSW and was responsible for the construction of the old stone homestead near Mulgowrie Creek, now only a ruin. He was also employed in Mulgowrie Boiling Down Works, where they boiled down the carcases of slaughtered wild horses for the tallow content. The residue was used to feed pigs, which William sold for profit.
He raced horses, including 'Dentist' which won the 'Binda Purse' of twenty sovereigns at the race meeting at 'Funny Hill' (3).
In 1858 he purchased the property 'Sletes Gully' located in Bigga NSW from Richard Moses for 350 pounds. He renamed it 'Markdale' and worked there as a farmer and grazier. This property is still in existence today.
In 1861 he was killed in a fatal accident whilst riding a horse on his way home from Binda. He had just whipped the animal into a gallop when it ran him up against a tree.
Contributor: Ngaire Hanson (49134204) • [email protected]
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The Yass Courier (NSW) Sat. 23 March 1861, p.3
FATAL ACCIDENT. —Yesterday, about eleven a.m., Mr. William Marks, of Markdale, Georgiana, was returning home from Binda, where he had been on business accompanied by his son. In the course of conversation he expressed an opinion that the horse he was riding could race, and that he could beat the horse that had walked over for one of the prizes at the Laggan races the day before. He then gave his horse the whip and started him into a gallop. The animal, a very head strong one, became almost unmanageable, and ran Mr. up against a tree. He was struck full on the forehead, and immediately fell. His son came up directly and raised the body, but life had fled. So violent was the collision that the tree where struck by the deceased's head, looked as if a blow had been inflicted by a large stone or a hammer. Mr. Marks was about sixty-five years of age and was perhaps the oldest resident in his neighborhood, where he had lived between thirty and forty years.— Goulburn Herald.
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