[1] He was the son of William John Bartram of Aylmerton and Ann Jane Strange.

He firstly worked for Carter at his Merrow Farm Inn - the half way house between Guildford near Perth and York.

[7] He returned to visit England in 1858 and brought back farm equipment including the first wheat stripper in the Beverley district.

He had earlier in February advertised a portable steam mill with French Burr wheels and dresser.

One document about the Avon Dale research station states:[10] Nicholas Carey was from Frogmore, on the island of Guernsey.

Carey visited Britain between 1841 and 1843 and, in 1844, he leased Avondale to Bartram and George Kersley for four years, for an annual rental of £35 and improvements.

The improvements included a 'good and substantial dwelling house with a stone foundation and rammed earth walls' to the value of £100 sterling, a barn worth £50 and 50 acres (20 ha) of land cleared.

The southwest portion of Location 14 was the site of soldiers barracks, a mud brick structure built in the 1830s and most likely used by the lessees of Avondale.

His younger son John Robert Bartram remained in the Beverley district and farmed Emerald Hills and married his relative Julia Sophia Strange.