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Archer family
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Dates of existence
1813-
History
The Archer family were a group of several brothers and their families who were pastoralists in Australia from ca. 1838. The Archers had pastoral properties near present-day Woodford (Qld) and at Gracemere, near Rockhampton. The Archers were the children of William Archer a Scottish timber merchant, who had relocated to Larvik in Norway in 1825. The brothers who came to Australia were Charles (1813-1862), John (1814-1857), David (1816-1900), William (1818-1896), Archibald (1820-1902), Thomas (1823-1905) and Colin (1832-1921). The Gracemere homestead block remains in the Archer family to this day.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, JH, 07-Mar-2025
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Sources
Mary O'Keeffe, 'Archer, Thomas (1823–1905)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 7 March 2025.
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Revised with History, JH, 07-Mar-2025