Archibald Clunes Innes

Infobox Person
name = Archibald Clunes Innes

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caption = Archibald Clunes Innes
birth_date = 1800
birth_place = Thrumster, Caithness, Scotland
death_date = 29 August 1857
death_place = Newcastle, New South Wales
occupation = pastoralist, soldier
spouse = Margaret, daughter of Alexander McLeay
parents = Major James Innes, soldier
children = three sons and two daughters

Archibald Clunes Innes (1800-1857) was a soldier and pastoralist from Thrumster, Caithness, Scotland. When he arrived in Australia in 1822 he was a captain in the Third Regiment (Buffs), on the ship “Eliza”, in charge of 170 convicts.

Innes was a commandant at Port Macquarie, New South Wales penal settlement from November 1826 to April 1827. Captain Innes returned in 1830 and settled on his grant of 2568 acres (1039 ha) of land near Port Macquarie where the 22 room Lake Innes house was built, using convict labour, in several stages between 1831 and 1843. In 1837 Innes had 85 convicts working for him at Port Macquarie. [1837 Muster p156. film 2724, bench book 8 Folio 161 #2694 p.156 ] His wife Margaret, was also an early grantee and received land at Crottys Plains on the Wilson River near Rollands Plains.

Major A.C. Innes owned Innestown on the Manning River and Yarrows (Yarras) on the Hastings River. He was one of the first squatters in the New England district when in 1836 he held Waterloo Station. [cite encyclopedia
title = Chisholm, Alec H.
encyclopedia = The Australian Encyclopaedia
volume =
pages =
publisher = Halstead Press
location = Sydney
date = 1963
id =
accessdate = 2008-08-08 ] Some of his other New England properties included Kentucky Station, Beardy Plains, Dundee Station and Furracabad Station and it was on this station that the town of Glen Innes was named after him and laid out in 1851.Australian Dictionary of Biography
last=Flowers
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year=1967
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title= Innes, Archibald Clunes (1800 - 1857)
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title = Chisholm, Alec H.
encyclopedia = The Australian Encyclopaedia
volume = 5
pages = 82
publisher = Halstead Press
location = Sydney
date = 1963
id = Innes, Archibald Clunes
accessdate = 26 September 2008]

Archibald, during the 1830s was one of Australia's richest colonists. However in the 1840s credit squeeze he lost just about everything and he became bankrupt in 1852. He was later an assistant gold commissioner and magistrate at Nundle and later police magistrate at Newcastle. Archibald Innes died at Newcastle on 29 August 1857.

ee also

* Squatting (pastoral)

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