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The Hamersley family were a wealthy and well-connected family of early settlers in the colony
Colony

In politics and in history, a colony is a Territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies....
 of Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
. Members of the Hamersley family emigrated to Western Australia from England in 1837.

Prominent members and connections of the family include:

A number of places in Western Australia have been named after the Hamersley family.






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The Hamersley family were a wealthy and well-connected family of early settlers in the colony
Colony

In politics and in history, a colony is a Territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies....
 of Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
. Members of the Hamersley family emigrated to Western Australia from England in 1837.

Prominent members and connections of the family include:
  • Edward Hamersley
    Edward Hamersley (Snr)

    Edward Hamersley was an early settler in colony Western Australia. He became a successful and wealthy pastoralism, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council....
    , pastoralist
    Pastoralism

    File:Nomadic Camping .jpgPastoralism or pastoral farming is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. It is animal husbandry: the care, tending and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas, sheep, and so forth....
     and MLC;
    • his sister Frances, who married William Locke Brockman
      William Locke Brockman

      William Locke Brockman was an early settler in Western Australia, who became a leading pastoralism and stock breeder, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council of the Western Australian Legislative Council....
      ;
      • their son Edmund Ralph Brockman;
      • their son Henry Brockman
        Henry Brockman

        Henry Brockman may refer to:*Henry Brockman *Henry Brockman , early settler of North America*Henry Stafford Brockman , British admiral...
        ;
    • his son Edward
      Edward Hamersley (Jnr)

      Edward Hamersley was a Western Australian pastoralism, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for nearly ten years.Edward Hamersley was born in Paris on 1 September 1835....
      , pastoralist and MLC;
      • his wife Jane, sister of Andrew and Charles Dempster
        Charles Dempster

        Charles Stewart 'Stewie' Dempster was a former New Zealand cricketer and coach. As well as representing New Zealand cricket team, he also played for Wellington, Scottish cricket team, Leicestershire County Cricket Club and Warwickshire County Cricket Club....
        ;
    • his son Samuel
      Samuel Hamersley

      Samuel Richard Hamersley was a Western Australian pastoralism, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for six years.Samuel Hamersley was born in Guildford, Western Australia on 12 October 1842....
      , pastoralist, explorer
      Exploration

      Exploration is the act of searching or traveling a terrain for the purpose of discovery, e.g. of unknown people, including space , for Petroleum, gas, coal, ores, caves, water , or information....
      , MLA
      Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

      In Western Australia, a Member of the Legislative Assembly or MLA is a person elected to sit in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Western Australia....
       and MLC;
      • his wife Matilda, sister of Maitland Brown
        Maitland Brown

        Maitland Brown was an exploration, politician and pastoralism in colony Western Australia. He is best remembered as the leader of the La Grange expedition, which searched for and recovered the bodies of three white settlers murdered by Indigenous Australians, and subsequently killed a number of Indigenous people in an incident that remains...
        ;
      • his son Vernon
        Vernon Hamersley

        Vernon Hamersley served the longest term ever as a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council....
        , MLC;
    • his daughter Margaret
      Margaret Forrest

      Lady Forrest , born Margaret Elvire Hamersley, was the wife of Sir John Forrest. Born in Le Havre, France, she was a member of the prominent and wealthy Hamersley family; her father was Edward Hamersley , and amongst her brothers were Edward Hamersley and Samuel Hamersley....
      , who married Sir John Forrest
      John Forrest

      Sir John Forrest Order of St Michael and St George was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament....
      ;
    • his daughter Flora, who married Frederick North;
      • their son Charles North;
    • his nephew Malcolm, who accompanied John Forrest on his 1869 exploring expedition.


A number of places in Western Australia have been named after the Hamersley family. John Septimus Roe
John Septimus Roe

John Septimus Roe was the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia of Western Australia. He was a renowned explorer, and a Member of Western Australia's Western Australian Legislative Council and Western Australian Executive Council Councils for nearly 40 years....
 named the Hamersley River in their honour in 1848–49; and Francis Gregory
Francis Gregory

Francis Hoyt Gregory was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 through to the American Civil War, serving then as a Rear Admiral....
 also named the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region
Pilbara region of Western Australia

The Pilbara is a regions of Western Australia in the north of Western Australia. It is one of nine regions of the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993, and is also a region under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ....
 in their honour. John Forrest, during his 1869 exploring expedition, named Mount Malcolm, Mount Flora and Mount Margaret all in honour of members of the Hamersley family.

The Hamersley ward of the City of Stirling
Stirling, Western Australia

The City of Stirling is a Local Government Areas of Western Australia in the northern List of Perth suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, Western Australia, located about north of Perth's central business district....
 (formerly Perth Road Board), the suburb of Hamersley
Hamersley, Western Australia

Hamersley is a residential List of Perth suburbs 14 kilometres north-northwest of the central business district of Perth, Western Australia, the capital of Western Australia, and six kilometres from the Indian Ocean....
, settled in the late 1960s, and a golf course in North Beach
North Beach, Western Australia

North Beach is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located from Perth's central business district via Mitchell Freeway and Reid Highway....
 are all named after them. Their 19th-century home, Hamersley House in Beachton Street, North Beach, was demolished in 1962.