Bob at Walhalla

"It was a tough life. They were so isolated here. You know, there was this woman....Mac, MacDonald, no, Mac something, scottish anyway. She came out to Rosedale with her husband. He was a doctor but he died. So she got herself a dray and some bullocks and hauled potatoes from Rosedale to Walhalla. She'd sell 'em here because they nearly starved in the early days...they were so cut off. She must've been tough she had eight, or was it ten bullocks at hand? That means she drove them through the swamps on the other side of the range, then over into here! It's all true, I researched it.

She had a couple of sons. One became a doctor and the other one was a professor of something at Melbourne Uni. I met him...oh I can't remember when and he was quite old then. Probably gone now, but he confirmed the whole story."

[I checked the Rosedale and District Historical Society site and it has no mention of this resourceful woman and all the pioneers appear to have been only male. Thanks Bob, for herstory!]