Known as Ted.
Ted and his pilot, Lieutenant Robert Norman Fawcett, died as a result of an airplane crash during the inaugural Airmail flight through the North West.
It is thought that Mary Ann was married to a Mr Eagan, who was a water borer on Murchison House Station and could possibly have ben a Ticket of Leave man employed by Andrew Jameson Ogilvie. However, this has not been confirmed.
Robert & his engineer, Edward Wilson Broad, died as a result of an airplane crash during the inaugural Airmail flight through the North West.
There were no children of Nathaniel's first marriage to the former Lucy Empshall, who died in December 1843.
At the age of about 44 years, on 9 December 1848, in York, Yorkshire, England, Nathaniel HORSEFIELD was sentenced to 15 years and transportation for burglary. He arrived in Fremantle on 25 October 1850 on the Hashemy and obtained his Ticket of Leave on the same date. On 17 February 1852, he obtained his Conditional Pardon.
At the Murchison House Station Cemetery, the gravestone which was erected in memory of Nathaniel Horsfield was erected by his master and fellow servants.
The Murchison House Station Cemetery record states that Nathaniel Horsfield was a botanist brought to the station by the original owner, Charles von Bibra, who died in October 1869.
This Aboriginal died in 1889 and was a servant of Charles Von Bibra, the original owner of Murchison House Station, who bred Arab horses.
Murchison House Station was originally taken up by Charles Von Bibra, who bred Arab horses on the lease. Andrew James Ogilvie bought the property in 1885 and owned it until his death in 1906.
During his time on Murchison House Station, Andrew Ogilvie employed a Ticket in of Leave cook in 1878 and a Ticket of Leave well sinker, possibly Mr John Eagan, in 1881. He visited South Australia in 1888.
In an article to the Geraldton Express in 1906, Dr Moffit, of Northampton, detailed his incredible two day journey across most inhospitable countryside to reach the Murchison House Station homestead after he received a letter at the Courthouse from Mrs Ogilvie, informing him that her husband had been drowned on the previous day,
Andrew Jameson Ogilvie died on 8 October 1906 at Watts Pool, Murchison, Western Australia, by drowning. An inquest was conducted and his death was ruled "accidental by drowning". It appeared that he had gone duck hunting, which he enjoyed, and slipped and fell into 3 feet of water which soon became 10 feet where his body was found. His wife said that he was "timid of water" and he apparently had tried to grasp an object to hold onto, but could not and drowned in the Murchison River.
Following Dr Moffit's post-mortem examination, Mr. T. A. Drage, J. P. acted as coroner, with Messrs. S. H. Mitchell, jun., J. P. Oxenham, and Best as jurymen. Having inspected the site of the drowning, the coroner and jury sat from after lunch on Friday until 1 am on Saturday morning, and then adjourned until the following day, when the jury for the second time visited the scene of the fatality. Finally, the jury brought in a verdict of accidental death, the only one that could be expected, after a most searching inquiry.
Mr Ogilvie's second wife, Ada Leila Frances, was born in 1872 in Sydney. In 1908, two years after the death of Andrew Ogilvie, she married Thomas Brougham Birkbeck. In 1909, Ada Leila Frances was living in Melbourne. In 1916, her address was at the Villa Mirasole, 40 Boulevard D'Italie, Monte Carlo. She died there in 1949.
The deceased's father, Frederick Albert Porter, married Maude Evangeline Carledge at Kalgoorlie in 1907 (Marriage Registration 1800049/1907, East Coolgardie). Children from this marriage were Frank Albert born 1908 in Kalgoorlie (Birth Registration 1800229/1908, East Coolgardie); Roy Frederick born 16 February 1910 at Kalgoorlie (Birth Registration 1800130/1910, East Coolgardie); Benetta Mary came next in 1911, followed by Lorna Adelaide, who was born 25 October 1914 in Geraldton (Birth Registration 2900174/1914, Geraldton). Finally, Gladys Maude arrived some 13 years after the birth of her eldest brother, Frank Albert.
The child's father, Frederick Albert Porter, was born 8 October 1887 at Walkerville, South Australia. His wife was born in Sale, Victoria, on 13 January 1883.
Little Gladys' mother, Maude, died in 1970 in Geraldton. Her father died there on 11 June 1978.
Jilba is buried at the Murchison House Station Cemetery in the same plot as Andrew Ogilvie.