In 1840, Robert Langlands, a young Scottish man, took a huge step for love and left his family to embark on a romantic escapade across the ocean.

He shocked his family by deciding to pursue his lady friend, who had been deported to Australia for a minor misdemeanour. After arriving in Melbourne, Robert immediately set off to Sydney to ask his girlfriend, Agnes, to marry him.

Robert’s brother, George, and his wife, Betsy, during his leave, and having fallen on hard times, had become interested in an offer to start a Post Office in Western Victoria. So, they loaded their five children (including Ted’s future grandmother, Margaret, at age six) on board three bullock drays and set off to find a survey peg 300 miles away on the Wimmera River marked as “A place to be called Horsham.”

Robert set up a foundry in Flinders Street in 1841, which thrived, and Horsham grew around the Langlands store. The rest, as you will discover in this book, is wonderful history.

“An authentic telling of real life in a part of our history not to be forgotten… A wonderfully written and engaging book…”
– Dillon, Readalot Magazine reviewer

About the Author

A retired farmer, Ted Stephens comes from a literary family. His grandfather Edward James Stephens founded the "Horsham Times" in 1873. Ted's father Harold was brought up in his father's many Wimmera newspapers and wrote prolifically for "The Leader", "Weekly Times", the "Gadfly" and others. They wrote their history as it happened, enabling Ted to publish their story, "The Langlands", in 2024. This gave him the will to research and write about the forgotten Ormond family. After 60 years with the CFA, church and local committees, writing local histories, and 53 years developing a world-class collection of historic machinery at the Geelong Showgrounds and now a museum, he has been honoured as a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem Hospitaller for his contribution to society.

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