Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsStock and station agentsFarmersHistoryJames Butchart migrated from Fifeshire, as a lad of 19, disembarking in Melbourne from the William Nicol in February 1842. Over the ensuing decade he undertook pastoral employment with James MacArthur at Ballawarra, Capt. John Hepburn at Smeaton Hill, Donald Campbell Simson at Glenisla and Charlotte Plains, and with William Campbell, M. 1. C., at Strath Loddon. During this time, James Butchart also acquired pastoral interests of his own. In 1853 (when the present series of letters ceases) he entered into partnership with William Kaye as a stock and station agency (Kaye & Butchart), purchasing the business· of Messrs Mickle & Bakewell in Bourke Street. This enterprise was very successful, and after ten years James Butchart retired. He built a mansion - 'Beleura' - at Mornington, and died there on 11 Nov. 1869, aged 47.Search records of this agent
