Frederick Augustus Hely

Frederick Augustus Hely (1794 – 8 September 1836), a public servant and settler of colonial Australia, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland.

While there is no evidence of the actual time when Hely came to Australia, it is known that he was given the post of Principal Superintendent of the Convicts in New South Wales sometime in early 1823.

Hely held several other additional positions of public and social influence becoming a justice of the peace in 1825 and president of the Board of Magistrates in 1826.

Later, in 1832, Hely applied for an appointment as stipendiary magistrate at Brisbane Water, where he had a farm and had commissioned a home, Wyoming Cottage.

[1] Hely established a farm, which he called Wyoming, after he was granted almost 550 hectares of land at Narara, Brisbane Water in 1824, and, in doing so, became the first European man to settle there permanently and to grow a citrus fruit orchard garden.