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Henry's grave head stone outside All Saints Church Middle Swan reads in part: 'One of the oldest Settlers who successfully contended with the early difficulties of the Colony'. Henry died 6 December 1876 at Chittering. After the Morleys' arrival in 1830 they lived in Upper Swan for the next twenty three years. Granted Perth Lot O2 in 1830. Henry and Sarah's family grew to five daughters and three sons. They all worked under primitive working conditions. Tilling small acreages the soil to cultivate of wheat and barley, plant vegetables and fruit trees and bred from a few animals. At fifty years of age Henry purchased 20 acres to farm in Chittering for 20 pounds. Five years later he purchased an additional fifteen acres. The family home was built and in the late 1850's a large barn was constructed by convict labour. The barn's 60 square metre wooden floor provided the isolated local farming community the opportunity to attend occasional social dances accompanied with an accordion player. The Morley family would travel a distance of 40kms to Guildford and would exchange farm produce (barter) for credit to purchase cloth and iron implements. Sarah Morley, pioneering wife and mother raised three grandchildren as a second family. Within a week after the death of her daughter Caroline in 1862, Sarah at the aged of fifty-six years travelled by horse drawn buggy to Greenough. Sarah was determined to retrieve her grandchildren because Daniel Baughan, Caroline's widower had no satisfactory means to support his children who were aged, one, three and six years old. Sarah travelled 12 hours a day, resting to water the horse. Sarah, to ensure that she safely made that arduous journey trip hobbled the horse at night. The round trip lasted 25 days covered 400kms along a bush track. Sarah died 2 August 1884 at Upper Swan. Both Henry and Sarah are buried at All Saints Church, Upper Swan. Reference: 'A True Pioneer Settler' published December 1976 by Douglas Jecks.

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