Biography

Patrick Scanlan was buried by Charles Lincoln at the bottom of the range on Granite Creek at a place known as Durack's Folly, Argyle Station. Witnesses present at the burial were Frank Bowles and William CH Renfroy. The deceased had lived in Queensland for about 14 years before moving to Western Australia.

Patrick was a big, red-bearded Irishman who came from County Clare with his brother and sister. and took up land in the Argyle district. He died trying to forge a route across Granite Creek that would shorten the track for travellers with buggies, wagons or drays, by about twenty miles - and was buried at the foot of the hill on which he had been working.

Patrick's father, William, was born 1834 in Ireland.  His wife, whose name is unknown, was apparently born in 1839.