Photo and painting of Cornelius Sharpe Haley, circa 1850s
Provided by Dianne Switzer, fourth generation descendent of Haley
In 1836, Henry Arthur, the nephew of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania’s) Governor, George Arthur, was one of the founding members of John Batman’s ‘Port Phillip Association’ that took out a lease on land in the Diamond Valley. Soon afterwards, Cornelius Sharpe Haley and his wife, Jane were residing in the parish of Nillumbik, in a slab and shingle roofed cabin on a run of some 160 acres that they called ‘Allwood’.
The Haleys also leased an additional 9,280 acres that extended from Allwood towards Kinglake.
