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BIOGRAPHY: Thomas and Agnes Henderson
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Original stable on Thomas and Agnes Henderson's farm, Balrooten,Vic.
Photographed 1983. Robert Sherwood.

In December 2006 my aunt Jean Sherwood recalls some things her brother Claude and her mother Jane Sherwood nee Henderson telling her about Agnes Henderson..

When grandfather Henderson bought his farm at Balrooten near Nhill he built a small house at the bottom of the garden for Jane Grayling and each night one of the Henderson girls would stay with her. When she passed away she was taken back to Lexton to be buried with her husband and three daughters.

Although she never learnt music she only had to hear a tune and she could go home and play it on the concertina or the banjo. They had a large kitchen built away from the rest of the house and she would play the music and the older girls would teach the younger ones to dance in the kitchen. She had nine daughters and two sons.

She was also very good at sewing and used to make a lot of the girls' dresses and in those days the dresses had a lot of work in them. Her father had been a tailor so she probably inherited some of his talent. She would also tell you off if you did or said something she didn't like. She came and stayed a couple of weeks with us and one of my brothers was having trouble doing something and she heard him swear. He wasn't very old and she gave him a good talking to. He must of got an awful fright as he lived until he was 92 and I never heard him swear.

 


 

 

The town was quite deserted yesterday.
The Presbyterian Sunday School picnic was held in Henderson's paddock, about 2 miles out of Nhill, and this pleasant picnicking ground was the rendezvous of a large number of parents and children.

Nhill Free Press.
Tuesday
11 Nov. 1902.  

The intervening years between the family's arrival at Balrooten and Thomas's death early in 1906, were more prosperous times for the Hendersons. Agnes listed the family's assets for the year 1906 in a small exercise book.

 

In-her small exercise book Agnes wrote...

1909. What things I sold to buy the house in Rose Street, W. Brunswick.

House cost £231. These are my own...

Buggy and harness... £ 37

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from
Agnes's Book

Thrilby (Mare) £ 25

1 Bay filly £ 8

1 Colt £ 18

1 Black Filly £ 42

1907.

Lambs £ 37-9/

Wheat £ 71-5/

Wool £ 79-19/

Wheat sold later on... £ 24-7/

This is quiet (sic) correct and all my family will no (sic) this is quite true. I hereby sign my name.

Agnes Emma Henderson.

1909. April 24th.

 

In 1909 Agnes Henderson moved to Melbourne to live. She bought a house at 30 Rose Street, Brunswick.

Again according to the Henderson family bible...

'Mother (Agnes Henderson ) died February 23 rd 1925, age 73.'
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Last update on 14 February 2008