UMPHERSTON, James of 1812
James arrived in Aust. in 1860.
There is, to add to the confusion, the arrival of James
UMPHERSTON / (HUMBERSTONE?) in 1839-08-13 on Ariadne from Greenock
[1,2,7,21,23(1)] There were no other family members with him.
James Umpherston, an early pioneer of Mount Gambier in the 1860s.
General Notes
Mr Umpherston's farm near Mount Gambier is described in the Register,
8 December 1869 (supp.), page 2e and 9 April 1889, page 6f, 11 January 1893, page 6d,
a report of a bunyip lurking in Umpherstone Caves appears on 27 August 1895, page 5e.
Report of the shark [in the Blue Lake] was not true. The creature has been identified by several reliable perjurers as the 'bunyip'; its lair is in Umpherston's cave, but it fishes in the Blue Lake... The creature was spotted all over with stripes and when seen was carrying off a wotisit alive. The monster's footprints have been found in the water about the centre of the lake. They are about the size of the Premier's foot tracks.
A letter from James Umpherston alluding to the Ridley stripper is in the Register,
26 May 1886, page 3h;
an obituary is in the Chronicle, 3 November 1900, page 37d,
Chronicle, 3 November 1900, page 37d and details of his will in the Express,
5 November 1900, page 2c.
An obituary of William Umpherston is in the Register, 15
January 1915, page 4f,
of Mrs Mary Umpherston in the Observer, 15 December 1917, page 23e.