Bluey
The Tom Utility Project Association
Victorian Office: 67 Railway Crescent WILLIAMSTOWN LIIC
3016 Phone 03 399 9191
NSW c/o Elands Post Office NSW 2429
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To: All forseeable sources.relating to
The Life and Times of Tom Quilty, Master Drover and Horseman]
Dear Friends,
VCM [WHIM? M' UNE MEN MT 'TIE EOGIDEG1IE2?
I am Bluey Utility, writer and historian. Tom Utility was a
master drover and rider, a well respected man in the cattle
industry. But he was not, to my knowledge, an immediate
blood relative.
Yet Tom Quilty's name is one which came to my ears early in
life. He seemed to be a person who so contrasted with my
immediate Uncles & Hunts that I knew I would seek out his
story in time. My father, Cyril Quilty, (1917-1985) lived in
the inner West of Melbourne. But Tom Quilty lived as a larger
than life figure against the backdrop of the immense open
spaces of the "real Australia"
The Tom Quilty Cup was created to celebrate the riding abilities
of people such as Tom Quilty. Meaning drovers and horseman
and horsewomen who made the Australian cattle industry and
the folklore of the outback. Tom Quilty was amongst those
who could ride over 100 miles (160 km) a day.
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However, my investigations find insufficent detail to the
historical record of Tom Quilty himself. I know that he wrote
a book of bush ballads. That he was a persoanl friend of R.M.
Williams. find that he left Queensland to line with his second
wife Olive in Hall's Creek in the Kimberleys of the North West
corner.
I ask you now to consider your ability to help this project in
gaining greater knowledge of Tom Quilty.
Please send details to the above address.
Yours sincerely
Gluey Quilty
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THOMAS JOHN QUILT? O.B.S.
1887/1979
1887
In this year at 6 a.m. on the ist April at Normanton,
North Queensland, a baby boy was born to his parents Tom and
Mary Quilty, and the y called him Thomas John. His lovely young
Irish immigrant mother must have been very proud as she looked
for the first time on her son, her first son and second child.
Baby Tom was born with a sha p el y head covered with a shock of
black curls. The little bo y grew into a sturdy lad and at eighteen months was followed by a brother, Patrick James. Unlike his
brother , the new baby had straight brown hair, but had the same
dark brown penetratin g eyes of their father. The I cr - la boys
became inseparable and remained so throughout their youth and
manhood. A little girl Molly, and another boy Reginald Jerry and
lastly Kathleen made uo this family of six strong children. The
boys, Tom and Paddy, grew into sturdy lads with the hard manual
work of developing a grazing lease known as Oakland Park in the
Gulf country of North Queensland. They matured early,
1905
When Tom was 18 years of a g e, he was sent to NudgeeCollege in Brisbane. His 18 . months as a school boy was full of
incidents. You can imagine a raw bush lad of 18 conforming to a
strict Catholic College routine. He had many brushes with the
Brothers, but in s p ite of this, formed a strong and a".--ionate
friendship with the Head Brother, known as Brother Maroni, who
guided him through his turbulent school days. The Catholic teachm=c1 H,nr.
1:4-ar
Tom; the desire to b c OCT: I
was strong within him- but the Call of the Wild, of those carefree da y s chasing wild cattle and horses through the scrub and
over plains was stronger. So he returned to continue working
on Oakland Park, Cro y don, with his father.
1908
Found Tom enroute to Western Queensland with a mob of
Oakland Park cattle to stock newly accuired land on the Flinders
and Saxby Rivers. In that year Tom was 21 years of age, already a
strongly built man, full of ambition, with plenty of ability, a
noted horseman and cattleman. Their destination was an unusual
hill formation known as Fort Bowen. This later was known as
Euroka Springs. A hut, yards and fences were built. The but on
the N.E. side of the hillwas their base for many years- other
blocks of adjoining country were acquired under Special Crown
leases, each block approximately 20,000 acres.Tom worked
Euroka. Big holdings such as Dalgonelly and Sedan Din, were unfenced and with labour shortage were left unbranded. Poddy
dodging was rife.
1909
Tom .Quilty Senior, his wife Maty and daughters Molly
and Kathleen left Oakland Park, Croydon to live at Randwick,
S y dney. Mary, in spite of little education had a good business
head. She saw there was. money to be made in buying up old
houses either to renovate or demolish and rebuild with flats.
All flats, wherever situated were known as Oakland Court. This_
once poor immigrant family were now on their way to success and
prosperity.
The boys, under what wasknown as Reserved
1914/18- War Years.
Occu p ation were exem p t from front line service.-The Government
agreed they were doing theirbit by su pp lying cattle for the
Army.Tom Quilty Senior, as head of Quilty & Sons and with money
in the Bank, feared that surplus monies may be confiscated by the
20
' Government and sent Tom to West Australia to inspect Bedford
Downs in the East Kimberleys. Tom travelled by train from Sydney
,to Perth. It will be interesting to note that Tom had ticket NO.7
on the first run on the newly opened rail Link between these
cities. From Perth to Wyndham, Tom proceded by boat, arriving at
Wyndham on Christmas day 1916. He duly inspected Bedford and the
property of 1500 square miles with a pp roximately 9/10,000cattle
was purchased for 38,000 pounds. (A big price in those days)
' However, with the o p ening of the Wyndham meatworks that year
the proposition was sound enough. Tom returned to Euroka,QT1d.
and Paddy was to manage Bedford.
A house was transported from Normanton by .horse team
1918/19
to Euroka and rebuilt on a site about four miles south of where
the first but was built. It was a lovely spot, with the Hill in
the background. To the north L west were the fertile black soil
plains of the Flinders countr y and to the south-east the.Saxbv.
*On the 30th , April, 1919, Tom was married in koma, Q'ld., to
Lillian, the dau g hter.. of Suh- Tr= n er -o r Roderick Byrnes(late of
Cloncurry). Tom met his wife in Cloncurry, a pleasant well
educated girl and a ver y talented pianist.
Their first child was born, abov 7 Roderick Thomas, followed
1920
by Patrick, Irene and Doreen.
924
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In tnat
year Tom renewed his friendshi p with my parents,
wnom ne nad known in t.:1= G17 = ct .antryc = 2ueensland. mY father
had recently purchased a p ro p ert y Arizona, on Spear Creek with
a fronta g e of _black soil Plains to the Saxbv river and adjoining
Euroka S p rings on the western boundary.On the 24th April (1924)
just seven da y s after m y sixteenth bprthda y , mv father and i were
returning from Millungera Station w=ere we had gone for our mail.
Tom was on the same road travelling in the op p osite direr-ion
Thus I met Tom for the first time and was strangely affected by
this handsome, clean cut manin his wide brimmed hat, Harvard
work shirt, crey.moleskins and elastic side boots. The intervening years were filled with conflict, hardship, sadness, bitterness and hap p iness, but the love at f irst sight on that fateful
April da y in 1924 remained unchanged. Perha p s God in His mercy
will understand and 'forgive the wron g s we inflicted.
1937
Tom and I left Queensland with little money but a lot of
ho p e and faith, for the Northern Territory. Tom's brother Paddy,
(Patrick James: had recentl y p urchased Bradshaw's run on the
Victoria River. Padd y 's love of thoroughbred horses was the sole
attraction in acquiring this wild coastal run of 7,000sg. miles.
The beautiful imported sires L y samicus and Sir Douglas had recently been added to the horse stud:
1938 In April , with borrowed mone y , Tom and I in partnership,
Purchased the Six Mile Hotel in,Wyndham, West Australia. Paddy
had brought horses-from Bradshaws tc race at the Wyndham race
meeting. He was staving at the hotel with us when appendicitis
struck him down.Before he could be moved to Perth (hospital
facilities at Wyndham being inadequate at the time) he died.
With sorrow and a feeling of g reat loss, this fine man, a
brother was buried in Wyndham.
As beneficiar y of Padd y 's will Tom. became the owner of
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Bradshaw's Run and his 1:3 share in Bedford Downs, East Kimberley
West Australia.
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Tom was awarded the O.B.E. for his long serviceto the
cattle industry. He had resided on . and worked his land and pros p ered. He had given a helping hand to others less fortunate
than himself. His book of poems , "The Drovers Cook", was publi sh e d for the benefit of the Royal Flying Doctor Servive,a
nob l e cause_ Three publications were made. Tom's health gradually
det e rioated and doctors advised that he be taken to where good
m e d i cal and nursing help could be obtained.
As a gesture of good will, the R.F.D.S. arranged to trans1978
port Tom by aircraft, south to Capel, south of Bunbury, W.A.. One
of the R.F.D.S. nurses accompanied him. On the 22nd October, 1978
we arrived b y ambulance at our farm house on the edge of the
smal l town of Capel. For twelve months this fine man fought off
the ordeals and regrets of leaving his home in the Kimberleys and
his terminal illness.
1979
. At 6 a.m. on the 24th November, 1979, his soul departed
his tired body to wing its way over the hills andvalleys of
Springvale to tarry for a while by the Saxby River, then onward
through the mists of Ireland, tc rest at last in peace with His
Maker in Heaven.
So ended the life, at 93, of a true son of Australia. A
life well spent with work well done.
am
Tom has been gone from my life for eleven years now. 82 years, living in the same house where we s p ent the last Year
together. On lonely days and nights I feel he is still with me.
In my dreams I see again that Handsome young man of 1924, in the
grey moleskin trousers, elastic side boots and broad brimmed hat
for the true cattleman that he was.
Olive M. Quilty.
August, 1990.
NOTICE
The Annual General meeting of Q.E.R.A. inc. is to be held
at BROOKFIELD HALL, BROOKFIELD.
on
10th Febrt
Y,
1991.
Nomination for committee and notice of motion forms are in this
issue. The y _must be in the hands of Secretar y , Sue May, b y the
9th January, 1991.
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J. Vivian Williams
3rd May 1887
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do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of an entry in a register kept in
General Registry Office, Brisbane.
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