Bradshaw Station

The leases to lands along the Victoria River were acquired by Joseph Bradshaw in 1894; the property occupied an area of 4,800 square miles (12,432 km2).

[3] A second lease adjacent to the station of 2,000 square miles (5,180 km2) was granted to Frederick Bradshaw, Joseph's brother, in 1898.

Frederick joined his brother in 1898 to stock the property with sheep[4] and both leases, which shared a boundary, were being run as one entity.

[5] Both Frederick Bradshaw and Egoriffe were murdered by Aborigines[6] near Port Keats in 1905 when two men boarded their ship and killed them along with five of their companions in a revenge attack.

Prior to his death in 1938 Patrick Quilty and his brother Tom acquired Bradshaw, Coolibah and Bedford Downs Station.