DIARY, FARMING ACTIVITIES AT 'NARDIE' 1907
1907Farm diary of daily activities for the year 1907.
Recorded in Letts's No 37 Scribbling Diary.
Diary was transcribed in 2017 and is available for viewing from this link: https://www.toodyay.com/Historical-Toodyay/Toodyays-Heritage/Twentieth-Century
The Nardie locality is in the Toodyay district.
The author of the diary is Morris Lloyd who records his 40th birthday on 21st June 1907.
The owner of the Nardie property at this time was still probably Joseph Morris Lloyd (1845-1932). He married Catherine Sinclair. They later retired down to Perth.
Joseph’s eldest son was Morris who was born in 1867. By 1910 Morris and his wife Mary were living on the farm at Nardie with Joseph and Catherine, according to the 1901 Commonwealth Electoral rolls.
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In 1832 the Nardie grants were taken up by James Lloyd, the proprietor of the 'Star and Garter' in Fremantle. Charles Harper took the lease for the property between 1840 to 1855. He was to become Reverend Charles Harper, the first man to be ordained by the Anglican Church in the colony and the Minister in Toodyay from 1849. Charles Harper did not occupy the property and took up residence elsewhere in the area.
James Lloyd's widow and two sons, Charles and Joseph, returned to the property after Harper's lease expired and divided the property between them. James named his section 'Calbaline' and Joseph had 'Nardie'. The brothers married Sinclair sisters.
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