Name |
Paterson, Andrew Barton |
Moved |
1864 |
"Buckinbah", Obley, NSW |
Born |
17 Feb 1864 |
"Narrambla", Orange, NSW |
Gender |
Male |
Moved |
1870 |
"Illalong", Yass, NSW |
Moved |
1874 |
"Rockend", Gladesville, NSW |
- Description: He lived with his grandmother Emily Mary Barton and attended Sydney Grammer School.
Rose's eldest son, Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson, had been a resident at Rockend in the 1870s while he attended Sydney Grammar School.
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School |
1875 |
Sydney Grammer School, College Street, Darlinghurst, NSW |
- Final year at Sydney Grammar was 1881.
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Education |
1882 |
Sydney University, Sydney, NSW |
law |
- Paterson left university in 1880.
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Employment |
1882 |
A Law Firm, Sydney, Nsw |
Published |
1885 |
- Description: his first poem, "El Mahdi to the Australian Troops" in the Bulletin
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Mentioned |
1886 |
- Description: He was admitted as an attorney, solicitor and proctor of the Supreme Court of NSW
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Employment |
1889 |
South Africa |
- Paterson was a Foreign Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald covering the Boer War. He performed well sending back interesting dispatches and participating enthusiastically in the conflict. He saw and reported a lot of action and even liberated Bloernfontein with a small party of journalists on horseback who arrived ahead of the allied troops. He also met and interiewed Kitchener, Churchill and Kipling, who became a lifelong freind. Paterson returned to Australia and travelled around the country delivering lectures on the Boer War.
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Published |
1889 |
- Description: "Clancy of the Overflow" in the Bulletin
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Published |
1895 |
- Description: Waltzing Matilda
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Published |
17 Oct 1895 |
- Description: "The Man from Snowy River & other verses"
This was Banjos first book and has sold more copies than any other book of Australian poetry.
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Employment |
1901 |
The Sydney Morning Herald |
- Description: as a Foreign Correspondent to cover the Boxer Rebellion in China
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Published |
1902 |
- Description: "Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses"
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Employment |
1903 |
The Evening News |
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Military Enlist |
1915 |
Wimereux, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
- Description: Australian forces as an ambulance driver
On the outbreak of war, Paterson tried unsuccessfully to cover the war as a correspondent. He then enlisted in an Australian remount division and was commissioned a lieutenant in the AIF and posted to the Middle East, where he supervised the allied horses so successfully that he reached the rank of Major. His wife also served in a nearby hospital in Ismailia.
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Published |
1917 |
- Description: "Saltbush Bill, JP and Other Verses"
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Employment |
1919 |
The Sydney Sportsman |
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Military Disch |
1919 |
- Description: Australian forces
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Retired |
1930 |
Published |
1933 |
- Description: "The Animals that Noah Forgot"
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Published |
1936 |
- Description: "The Shearer's Colt", a novel
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Awarded |
1 Jan 1939 |
- Description: Order of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to literature
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Cremated |
Feb 1941 |
Northern Suburbs Crematorium, North Ryde, NSW |
Died |
5 Feb 1941 |
Sydney, NSW |
- Description: a heart attack
"Banjo" died of a heart attack in an unnamed hospital. Would have been one close to where he lived no doubt. He went in for a short illness. He was sitting in a chair waiting to go home again when he died.
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Person ID |
I0147 |
Barton Family Tree |
Last Modified |
17 Jul 2010 |
Family |
Walker, Alice Emily, b. 1877, NSW , d. 23 Jun 1963 (Age 86 years) |
Married |
8 Apr 1903 |
- While touring Australia in 1902, Paterson met Alice Emily Walker at Tenterfield Station in northern New South Wales. He married her at the station on April 8, 1903. They made their home in Woolahra, a suburb of Sydney after he was appointed editor of the Sydney Evening News. His two children were born during this period. Looking for a less stressful and confining life, he resigned as editor and bought "Coodra", a property in the Yass district. This decision ended in failure and Paterson turned for a short time to wheat farming at Grenfell.
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Moved |
1908 |
"Coodra Vale", Wee Jasper, NSW |
Moved |
1912 |
Grenfell, NSW |
Children |
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Last Modified |
17 Jul 2010 |
Family ID |
F0054 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |