This Day in History: 1855-08-11

By this date, the foundations had been laid by ticket-of-leave men for Rev. Charles Harper’s parsonage Braybrook on glebe land (Lot 111) near the Toodyay Convict Hiring Depot.

Sources:
Alison Cromb. The history of the Toodyay Convict Depot. A. Cromb, 2010, pp. 68-69.
Rica Erickson. Old Toodyay and Newcastle. Toodyay Shire Council, 1974, p.132.
Rica Erickson & Robyn Taylor. Toodyay homesteads. Hesperian Press, 2006, p.63.