Individual Details
(1844 - 5 Apr 1886)
In 1870 he married Deborah North, daughter of Lieutenant J. North at "Fernie Lawn" near Ipswich. Fernie Lawn was the nearest station to Ipswich on the Brisbane River and it was occupied shortly after the embargo on settlement within fifty miles of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement was lifted in 1842. Fernie Lawn was purchased by the North family from the Uhr brothers early in 1843. Before the sale one of the Uhr brothers had been killed by Aboriginals while working sheep in a yard near the site of the present Lake Manchester, where he was buried.Wivenhoe was the adjoining station higher up the Brisbane River, owned by thesurviving Uhr brother and J. S. Ferriter, a retired Royal Navy man, who also owned an interest in Barambah station in the Burnett district. Wivenhoe stationwas situated about a mile from the old Wivenhoe Inn, a well known stopping place, on the road to the Upper Brisbane, Dawson and Burnett districts.Wivenhoe was also bought by the North family in 1849, and another property called Northbrook on the east side of the River was also secured. Joseph North lived firstly at Fernie Lawn, but afterwards at Wivenhoe. Apart from daughter Deborah who married Frederick Orme Francis Darvall, another daughter married Frank Villeneuve Nicholson, who afterwards purchased Humberstone, part of Durundur near what is now Kilcoy, and changed its name to Villeneuve. The name survives to this day.
Events
| Birth | 1844 | Penrith, New South Wales, Australia | | | |
| Marriage | 26 Feb 1870 | Queensland, Australia - Deborah Eliza North | | | |
| Occupation | Apr 1881 | Chief Inspector Of Distilleries And Breweries - Queensland, Australia | | | |
| Death | 5 Apr 1886 | Ryde, New South Wales, Australia | | | |
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