N.S. 545/1-2 4   GREUBER, Stephen Henry  -  Diary	

22	Oct	1841	purchased Forrest Hill (now 'Brockly')	
26	Oct	1841	Smith came to town & settled with Cruttenden for Forrest Hill	'settled' = paid
1	Nov	1841	rode to Prossers, 	
2	Nov	1841	to Mannings farm, Prosser's Bay	
13	Nov	1841	engaged with Buscomb to build cottage	
28	Dec	1841	rode with Buscomb to Prossers.  Drank tea at Mr Laphams	
19	Jan	1842	began harvest	
24	Jan	1842	cottage commenced at farm	
10	Feb	1842	fences begun	
12	Feb	1842	purchased 2 cows off Cruttenden	
18	Feb	1842	brickwork of house begun	
22	Apr	1842	purchased 459 sheep from Smith	
19	May	1842	carpenter commenced barn	
26	May	1842	entered our new house	
30	May	1842	dressed the sheep 404 ewes	may be 'drenched'
31	May	1842	Peachie gone over to local ? for shells.  Eves stacking turnips	beach ?
6	Jun	1842	Peachie and Eves ploughing, in afternoon thatching barn. Turned cattle [out] into oats.	
16	Jun	1842	getting wheat ricked, Eves threshing	
1	Aug	1842	Men employed clearing gound	
9	Aug 	1842	Sowed peas	
17	Aug	1842	Sent mill to the coast for mill	may be 'men'
	Sep	1842	New Brockley	
7	Dec	1842	wash sheep.  Engaged Francis Newnham, ticket of leave	
8	Dec	1842	road meeting - passed. Messrs Parsons, Rudd, Manning, Lang (chairman)	
6	Jan	1842	Cut 62 ½ lbs wool from 10 rams purchased from James Grant.	
7	Jan	1843	Men thatching ricks	
12	Jan	1843	sold wool 1/- lb	
20	Jan	1843	wrote for three probation men	
1	Feb	1843	3 men reaping, Jones thatching stable	
7	Feb	1843	Dr Blith called.  Purchased 5 Rams from Mr Grant (pounds) 2.10.0 (each?), Purchased 679 ewes off Mr Gregson at 5/6, Griffiths finished fencing	
				
5	Apr	1843	Mr McLean & myself went out shooting quail		
6	Apr	1843	Mr McLean left. Rode with him to coast and nearly lost my life swimming the bar at Prosser's Bay on my return home		
8	May	1843	My 25th birthday		
					
			Brockley House, Lewishham		
					
			Failure of father's mill, emigrated, went to John Wilson, Staffordshire, paid 100 pounds p.a. to acquire farming knowledge, sailed ship 'Derwent' 1839.		
			Stephen Henry b.  9 May 1819, m. Elizabeth Willis 23 May 1839.  Chn. Mary, Elizabeth, Caroline		
			Stephen Henry b. 1843 m. Hannah Gatenby		
			Thomas William		
			Elizabeth Helen 1847 m Edward Cotton		
			Charles 1849 m Eliza Elliston		
			Henry Francis 1852 unmarried		

			Grueber - son to Stephen Henry [Grueber] & Elizabeth Miller b. 17th June, 1845
			                daughter Elizabeth Helen dau to Stephen Henry [Grueber] & Elizabeth Miller -31 March 1847
			                Charles Frederick Archibald to Stephen & Elizabeth 23 Sept 1849