Australian Primary Industries - Wool. Wool is a natural fibre which grows on sheep, and is a bit like hair. When it is cut, it grows back. Wool clings together and is environmentally friendly. By eating grass and drinking water, sheep produce a fibre that no scientist using chemicals can copy. It has a great feeling and drapes well. Wool has a great ability to absorb moisture and because of this ability, it is relatively free from static electrical charges.
Sheep came to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. Sheep were taken to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) soon after it was settled in 1803. By 1879, there were 1 million sheep in Western Australia. The Henty brothers settled in Portland in 1834 and merino sheep were in the Port Phillip district (Victoria), from the time of that settlement. Sheep were taken to the Darling Downs in Queensland soon after first settlement in 1840. MERINO SHEEP Three out of four Australian sheep are merinos. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. OTHER BREEDS OF SHEEP 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Other products made from wool 1. 2. Elizabeth Macarthur. 1907_ABC1_Education_Schools_Opener_hi.flv ABC TV Education Watch our new on-air promotion Seeking Refuge This BAFTA Children's Award winner is a compelling and moving series of short animated documentaries portraying the real-life stories of young people who have sought asylum. Find out more Lockie Leonard Through the eyes of Lockie Leonard we view the truly mixed-up, yet very normal life of Lockie, his family and friends.
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Our consistently accounts for over one quarter of the world's wool and is often valued at well over $2 billion each year. Australia is also recognised as producing the world's highest quality woollen fibre – Australian merino wool. All of this has been achieved in just over 200 years and began with the hard work of one family – the Macarthurs. The beginning of a dynasty Portrait of John Macarthur. Image courtesy of the . John and Elizabeth Macarthur were married in Devonshire in England in 1788.
In 1788, John Macarthur married Elizabeth Veale in Devonshire and re-joined a regiment that was based in Gibraltar. Portrait of Elizabeth Macarthur. On June 28 1790, John and Elizabeth Macarthur arrived in Port Jackson with their infant son Edward. The merino sheep A merino ram. John Macarthur (wool pioneer) Portrait of John Macarthur by an unknown artist John Macarthur (1767 – 10 April 1834[1][2][3][4]) was a British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer of settlement in Australia. Macarthur is recognised as the pioneer of the wool industry that was to boom in Australia in the early 19th century and become a trademark of the nation.
He is noted as the architect of Elizabeth Farm House, his own residence in Parramatta, and as the man who commissioned architect John Verge to design Camden Park Estate in Camden, New South Wales. Macarthur was born near Plymouth, England the second son of Alexander Macarthur, who had fled to the West Indies after the Jacobite Rising before returning and working as a linen draper and 'seller of slops', according to some accounts.[5] His exact date of birth is unknown, but it is known that his birth was registered on 3 September 1767.[6] He spelled his surname "M'Arthur" for most of his life.
He occasionally varied it to "MacArthur". Macarthur, Elizabeth and John - Campbelltown City Council. Elizabeth Macarthur (1766-1850) Born on the 14 of August in 1766 in Devon, England. Elizabeth married Captain John Macarthur in 1788 and just over a year later sailed from England with their baby son, Edward. On her arrival she found life in the colony difficult. Food was scarce and so rationed. Even so Elizabeth remained cheerful and busied herself with various studies including botany, astronomy and piano. Bibliography Australia’s First Lady by Lenn Bickel, 1991 The Australian Encyclopedia p1963 Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Sir Edward Macarthur. Sir Edward Macarthur (1789-1872), soldier, was born on 16 March 1789 at Bath, England, the eldest son of Captain John Macarthur and his wife Elizabeth. He went to Sydney with his parents in 1790 and spent his boyhood there and at Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta. Sent to England in 1799 to be educated he returned to Sydney in 1806.
With his father he took part in the deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808. He soon left for London taking his father's version of the rebellion and the first bale of merino wool to be exported from the colony. He obtained a commission in the 60th Regiment and served at Corunna and in Sicily. In 1824 Macarthur went to New South Wales as the agent of T. After Nickle died in May 1855 and Governor Hotham in December, Macarthur took over command of the forces and became administrator. Macarthur's portrait by William Strutt is in Parliament House, Melbourne, and his bust in St John's Church, Parramatta. Citation details A. Benefits of wool. The Benefits of Wool Hair or Wool is the only material in the world naturally grown by mammals to regulate their body temperature in all weathers and climates.
So what's so great about wool for people? Wool is a breathable fibre that provides instant warmth unlike synthetic materials. It regulates itself to individual body temperature and really is warm in winter whilst cool in summer. It is also a great buffer against rain, wind and snow. Wool is hard to challenge for its sustainability (sheep are not intensively reared). Wool is a highly practical fibre. Wool accounts for 5-10% of the total value of a ewe. Australia and New Zealand produce the most raw wool, whilst Belgium and Denmark export the most ‘greasy’ wool, including skin wool and re-exports. Back to previous page. Outback :: RM Williams. John Macarthur-Stanham is outside checking on the cows and chickens. His wife, Edwina, is inside making morning tea for some visitors. The children – William, 16, Victoria, 14, and George, 11 – are away at boarding school. All in all this is a normal family going about its business in a normal way – but living in a most unusual situation.The Macarthur-Stanhams are descendants of John Macarthur, who played a leading role in the establishment of the wool industry that laid the nation’s economic foundation.
They are the seventh and eighth generations and they live in the house Macarthur built in the 1830s, believed to be Australia’s oldest residence occupied by descendants of its founder.It is one of the country’s great historic houses, but it is also a functioning family home with dad, mum and the kids leading everyday lives amid the period furniture, the porcelain, the leather-bound libraries of 100 year-old books and the fascinating memorabilia dating back to the 1790s. John MacArthur | 1767 - 1834. Son of a Jacobite JOHN MACARTHUR was born at Stoke Damerel, near Plymouth, Devon, England , 3 September 1767. His parents were compelled to leave Argyleshire after the Battle of Culloden, in which his father had fought with his brothers on the side of the Stuarts in 1745. Young MacArthur was educated at a private school and at the age of 15 entered the army as an ensign.
After spending 12 months with his regiment, he was placed on half-pay at the end of the war in 1783, and he retired to a farm house near Holdsworthy, Devon, where he applied himself to the study and practice of agriculture. New South Wales Corps In 1788, having meanwhile studied history and law and seriously been attracted to the latter as a profession, he accepted a commission with the 68th Durham Regiment from which he transferred in the following year to the New South Wales Corps. He reached Sydney on June l8, 1790, and was sent as commandant to . Agriculture Land Grants Fine Wool Breeding Home Government Concerns Image: Ancient Australian History. John Macarthur is regarded as being a man of great influence in the early years of settlement.
He was a British army officer with skills in architecture, and was involved in politics. But he is best known for his work in setting up the wool industry and introducing the merino sheep to Australia. This was reflected by Australia where there is an image of John Macarthur and a merino sheep on the old $2 note, which is not in circulation anymore. In 1790, John Macarthur and his wife Elizabeth Veale arrived in Port Jackson to join the Corps as a lieutenant and was appointed as commandant at Parramatta.
Later Major Francis Grose arrived, who would indulge with many of the officers of the Corps including Macarthur. In 1796 Macarthur bought some Spanish merino sheep from South Africa. Merino sheep In 1801 he returned back to England to stand trial over a dispute with a Colonel. In 1808 Macarthur was in trouble for his role in the 'Rum Rebellion' where he resigned from the army. History of Wool for Kids! Modern sheep The most interesting thing about wool is that sheep didn't always have wool, or not enough to notice. When people first started hunting sheep, they hunted them for their meat.
Sheep hair was more like deer hair is today, short and thick, not long and fine and curly. Like goat hair. Then around 10,000 BC people in West Asia began to domesticate sheep (tame them) and take care of them, so there would always be plenty of meat around. At this point they began to use the milk from the sheep also, either drinking it fresh or making it into cheese. Man shearing a sheep, about 1550 AD (Brueghel) Sometime not too much later people also began to make clothes, instead of just wearing furs. Sheep being sheared for their wool on the Isle of Skye, Scotland Wool has a lot of advantages over vegetable fibers. For more about wool, check out these books from Amazon or from your library: Warm As Wool, Cool As Cotton, by Carter Houck (1986).
Linen Cotton Silk Main clothing page Welcome to Kidipede! John Macarthur and the birth of the Australian wool industry (not just another Aussie sheep joke!) | Sciencelens. Sheep – serious business Down Under.(© All Rights Reserved) Macarthur was born in Plymouth, Devon in the UK. He began his career in the army, and after various assignments and activities became part of the New South Wales corps in 1789 and was posted to faraway Sydney, Australia. A fiery character, his life story reads like a historical romance novel, with way too many saucy details (battles with authorities, involvement in a military coup, land battles and much more) to get into on this forum.
Suffice to say, after settling in Australia, Macarthur got involved in rearing sheep for mutton, purchasing his first flock in 1795. He also purchased a small flock of Spanish Merino, imported from the Cape Colony (part of the later South Africa) in 1797. The merino is an excellent wool breed, and it didn’t take long for Macarthur to recognise the economic potential of wool production for export, as opposed to simply rearing sheep for the local meat-market.
Like this: Like Loading... John Macarthur. John Macarthur (1767? -1834), soldier, entrepreneur and pastoralist, was baptized on 3 September 1767 at Stoke Damerel, near Plymouth, England, one of three known children of two expatriate Scots, Alexander Macarthur (formerly of Argyllshire) and his wife Catherine (d.1777), who lived in the parish of St Andrew in Devonport. Alexander Macarthur was a mercer and draper in Plymouth, whose business was inherited by his eldest son, James. It was this background that later gave John Macarthur's enemies in New South Wales the excuse to lampoon him as 'Jack Boddice', a staymaker's apprentice. However, by 1782 enough influence had been secured to obtain an ensign's commission in Fish's Corps for the 15-year-old John. This corps, specially intended for the American war, was still being assembled in England when the war ended.
When it was disbanded in 1783 Macarthur, on half-pay, retired to a farm at Holsworthy in Devon. In these two years accounts had been settled for the Bligh rebellion. John Macarthur (wool pioneer) Elizabeth Macarthur. Elizabeth Macarthur (1766-1850), was born on 14 August 1766 in Devon, England, daughter of Richard Veale, farmer, and his wife Grace, who were apparently of some education and affluence. Elizabeth received an education which allowed her to write letters of eighteenth-century style and grace and which equipped her to manage the complicated affairs of her husband's business in later life. She married John Macarthur in October 1788. In June 1789 he joined the New South Wales Corps and Elizabeth accompanied him when he sailed to take up his position in the colony. Her letters to her family written during the journey to New South Wales are one of the outstanding records of early voyages on convict transports.
A daughter born on the voyage did not survive, and Elizabeth landed in Sydney Cove on 28 June 1790 with her ailing eldest son Edward, born in Bath in 1789, to face the rigors of the foundation years of New South Wales.