Dr Ken Greenwood
Discover the lives of the people who lived at Bankfoot House
Historian in Residence 2024
Topic: The lives of the people who lived at Bankfoot House: 1868 – 2002
This paper explores the lives of seventeen people who lived in Bankfoot House between 1868 and 2002. Key figures within the Grigor, Burgess and Ferris families are included, together with their children, some of whom became significant players within their community. The paper begins with Willian Grigor ‘a farm servant from the highlands of Scotland who ended up owning more than 900 acres of land in Australia’. His third son, William Andrew Grigor was a carpenter, sawmill owner and dairy farmer who later became one of the first elected councillors for the Landsborough Shire in 1912.
Download and read the outcome of Ken Greenwood’s Historian in Residence research into the lives of the parents and children of Bankfoot House.
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