Walter Scott

Walter Scott was born in 1787^[1] and arrived in New South Wales in 1823 on the ship Regalia.^[2] A few months after his arrival he was granted 600 acres of land on the Paterson River and he named his grant Wallalong. His land was bounded on the south and west by the Paterson River, on the north by John Galt Smith's Woodville and on the east by J McClymont's land (see map). He later purchased more land at Seaham on the Williams River, which he named Eskdale.

Within about the first year of his arrival in the Colony Walter Scott joined the Commissary (a colonial government supply department). It was in this role that in 1824 he sailed to Moreton Bay with the initial party to establish a place of further punishment for convicts there (now the site of the City of Brisbane). In addition to his official role as government storekeeper he acted as surgeon to the penal settlement at Moreton Bay until its first Assistant Surgeon was formally appointed. Scott returned to the Hunter Valley and the 1828 census of NSW lists him as with the Commissary in Newcastle.

In 1843 his nephew, also called Walter Scott, emigrated from Scotland and settled at Seaham on his uncle's Eskdale land.^[3]

In 1854 Walter Scott (the uncle) left New South Wales, and he died in London later that year.^[4]