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Warrawang Murray Children:James George Robert Fred

Six of the Warrawang Murray children left the property and became pioneers of the Queensland Pastoral frontier. Jessie went with John and James to Wide Bay around 1850, where Jessie at first bore the domestic responsible so that the boys could establish themselves as squatters at Woolooga. But their first attempt failed because of the effective use of fire by the Kabi Kabi aboriginal men. Jessie married a squatter Henry Corfield. She died during her first pregnancy and was buried in a lone grave at Teebar Station, which grief-stricken Corfield then abandoned. John decided to join the Native Police to protect the squatters from aboriginal opposition and raids. James remained as a grazier, eventually settling north of Little's Rosedale property at "Green Vale" (north of Baffle Creek). The younger George, Robert and Fred all became members of the Queensland Native Police. From the beginning of the force to its disbandonment, Murray brothers were officers and magistrates of the Queensland Native Police. Their histories represent the changing attitudes of Queensland society to aboriginal-european relations through the 2nd half of the nineteenth century. Jessie 1824-53; John 1827-76; James 1836-81; George 1837-1910; Robert 1840-1918; Fred 1841-1915.

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