Chapter 9.2

William George Mosman 1850-1916

William “Willie” Mosman was born at Burrowel when his mother, Jane Blanch, was 19 and two years before she married twin George Mosman when she was 21. 
William Mosman’s parents 
Willie spent much of his life in Far North Queensland. In 1874 when he was 37 he married the love of his life Frederica Ellen Florence Snell. She was 22 and came from a good family on the Darling Downs. 

Less than a year later they were expecting their first child. Willie was heartbroken when both Frederica and their baby died in childbirth. Willie told one of his nieces that he never wanted anyone else and could never settle anywhere for long after his great loss. Hugh Mosman, his cousin, was a bachelor and they travelled the world together. 

At one time around 1892 he was in partnership as a horse and cattle auctioneer in Brisbane and he may have even spent a few years as a farmer on the South Island of New Zealand. 
A “Sociable” carriage”
Willie was known to be a great horseman and family memories are of Uncle Willie driving a “Sociable”, a one horse open carriage, at Brandon. When Willie Fisher wasn’t well he drove his three in hand with covered carriage. That is a formidable feat controlling three spirited horses abreast. 

Willie had rheumatic heart disease and used to suffer very severe heart pains. In his sixties he lived in a convalescent home in Sydney and one day when out shopping in central Sydney he dropped dead in the street. 


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