1. Patrick Leslie was a Scottish settler in Australia.
22 Facts About Patrick Leslie
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Partick Patrick Leslie was born in Warthill, known as Meikle Wartle in Aberdeenshire on 25 September 1815.
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Patrick Leslie was the second son of William and Jane Leslie.
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Patrick Leslie's father was the 8th Laird of Folla and 9th Laird of Warthill, JP, DL, 27th in line of descent from the 1st Baron of Balquhain.
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In December 1834, Patrick Leslie left London as a passenger aboard the convict transport Emma Eugenia, arriving in Sydney in May 1835.
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Patrick Leslie was left deeply in debt to Davidson as a result of this episode.
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When his brothers Walter and George arrived in the colony, Patrick Leslie decided to look for new land to the north.
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In 1840 Patrick Leslie started with stock from a New England station, then the most northerly settled district in New South Wales, and squatted Toolburra and Canning Downs, the first stations on the Condamine River, before the river had been identified as a tributary of the Darling River.
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Patrick Leslie met explorer Allan Cunningham at the home of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur in Parramatta.
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In 1840 Patrick Leslie, accompanied by a convict named Peter Murphy, followed in the footsteps of the explorer.
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On his return to Sydney Patrick Leslie married Catherine, daughter of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, at Parramatta on 9 September 1840.
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Walter and George Patrick Leslie then set about building a residence at Canning Downs.
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The task of building up the property during a time of depression proved too difficult and Patrick Leslie was ruined financially by 1844.
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In 1845 Patrick Leslie acquired 14 hectares of land in his father's name on the banks of Breakfast Creek, Brisbane and built Newstead House, where he lived while pasturing flocks at Canning Downs.
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At the first land sale in Warwick 1848 Patrick Leslie bought the first allotment.
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In 1854 after selling Goomburra to Robert Tooth, Patrick Leslie left Australia with his wife and son and returned to Britain.
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Patrick Leslie was elected as member of the NSW Legislative Assembly for the seat of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett and Maranoa from 19 November to 19 December 1857, when the parliament was dissolved.
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Patrick Leslie purchased land in Waikato, where he established a productive farm and sheep stud at Wartle, just south of Hamilton, on New Zealand's North Island.
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Patrick Leslie sold his New Zealand holdings due to failing health in 1879, returning to Australia in his retirement.
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Patrick Leslie was buried in plot 799 at St Thomas' Anglican Church Cemetery in West Street, Crows Nest, Sydney.
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Patrick Leslie was survived by his wife, Catherine and four grandchildren.
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The Patrick Leslie brothers are memorialised by a set of gates to Patrick Leslie Park in Warwick on the corner of Fitzroy and Guy Streets.