Yesterday Today | James Garnett Ewer

By Alan McRae
June 24 2019 - 6:00am
HOME, JAMES: James Garnett Ewer landed in Sydney in October 1835 and later had a property near Toowoomba.
HOME, JAMES: James Garnett Ewer landed in Sydney in October 1835 and later had a property near Toowoomba.

THIS week's image is of a small painting. At this time, photography still hadn't been improved enough to be commercially available. This image of James Garnett Ewer is held by the Bathurst District Historical Society.

James Ewer came to the Bathurst district later in his life. He arrived in Sydney on the three-masted barque William, which had a crew of around 30. He landed in Sydney in October 1835, having left London in May 1835, just after dissolving his business partnership.

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