Records. 1830-1956.

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Records. 1830-1956.

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Letterbooks, ledgers, cash books, journals, minutes of meetings, etc., correspondence with Lord Forrest who had a financial interest in the firm and for whom his nephew, John Forrest, acted as executor, and estate records. Also records of various other pastoral companies in which the Forrest brothers were individually or collectively interested. Individual records for "Minderoo", "Hardey Junction", "Blackwattle" and "Cubbine" pastoral stations. Includes original diary of Alexander Forrest kept while second in command of expedition into Central Australia, 1874.

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Forrest and Company.

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This pastoral firm has been variously known as Alexander Forrest & Co., Forrest Bros. and Forrest & Co., directed for the greater part of the time by Alexander Forrest (1849-1901) and then his son, John Forrest (1887-1960). From the description of Records. 1830-1956. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221147611 ...

Forrest, Alexander, 1849-1901

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Surveyer, explorer, financier, and politician. Brother of John Forrest with whom he explored in 1869 in search of Leichhardt and in 1871 along the south coast of W.A. to Eucla and S.A. In 1879 he explored from the De Grey to the Kimberley and Fitzroy River, where he took up several pastoral stations with his brothers. He was Mayor of Perth, 1892-1895 and 1898-1900, as well as MLC and MLA for Kimberley. From the description of Share certificates. 1895. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat ...