Anne Drysdale

[citation needed] She initially had a farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, on her own account, and lived with the Houison Craufurd family in their Craufurdland Castle.

[2] Anne Drysdale arrived at Port Phillip on 15 March 1840, and soon after became a guest of Dr Alexander Thomson and his family in Geelong.

She and Caroline Elizabeth Newcomb (1812-1874), also a recent immigrant, became friends and, when Anne decided on Boronggoop as the site for her run, they also became partners.

On 18 July they settled the sale of the property from Mr. Austin and by the late 1840s they were living there in the stone house Coryule,[3] overlooking Port Phillip Bay, built by Melbourne architect, Charles Laing.

[3] Newcomb died in 1874 and was buried beside Anne Drysdale at Coryule; their remains were later moved to the Geelong Eastern Cemetery.