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174:(convict no 7821) for sheep stealing. In 1882 Dansy Powell arrived in the Gascoyne District with a survey party and shortly afterwards took up Meeragoolia Station. He then sold Meeragoolia to Dan Matheson and took up the Callagiddy country, which was the first portion of the area between Carnarvon and Wooramel to be taken up and stocked. In 1894 Powell married Ellen Matilda Bird, and their first child James was born at Callagiddy in 1896. They had nine children, all of whom except the last, Jessie, were born at the station. After the sale of Callagiddy in 1909 the family moved to
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The property was placed on the market in 2010 and sold to David Chown in May 2011; it occupied an area of 654 square kilometres (253 sq mi) with a high carrying capacity, 99.2 percent of the property being rated either very high or high under the government's rangeland ratings. The property
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Jackman sold the property in 1930 for £37,000 to the Waite family. The 160,000-acre (64,750 ha) property was stocked with 16,000 sheep at the time. In 1969 Jim Waite sold the property to the
Johnston family. Peter Johnston took over management of the family station in 1985 and had full ownership
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place names, "plenty water" and is pronounced with a hard G (J). Why the name
Callagiddy was significant to Powell is unknown, however he named his seventh child, "Amy Callagiddy Powell". The original homestead on Callagiddy was located in the north-east section of the property known today as "Old
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456:. Perth. 25 November 1923. p. 14 Section: First Section
428:. Carnarvon, Western Australia. 19 November 1910. p. 2
344:. Carnarvon, Western Australia. 10 November 1906. p. 2
316:. Carnarvon, Western Australia. 2 September 1905. p. 2
372:. Carnarvon, Western Australia. 7 August 1909. p. 2
400:. Carnarvon, Western Australia. 25 June 1910. p. 2
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566:Russel Coote & Assoc, valuation Feb 2011
247:List of pastoral leases in Western Australia
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591:. realestate.com.au. 2013. Archived from
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