Person Of Interest

At the moment I am searching for the stories of my family. One of the people includes
This is my 5 generations; great-great-great-grandfather.

Alfred Benjamin Waldron
DOB:  27/2/1825
Place: Stourbridge, England

Baptism: 27/02/1828
Place: Worcestershire, England, UK

Occupation: Merchant, Dairyman, Farmer, Hotelier, Horse Breaker, Gold Digger

Immigration: 1854
Place: Victoria, Australia
More Findings: Arrived via "Sultana" from UK

Deceased: 28/09/1910
Place: Roma, QLD, Australia
Buried: 28/09/1910
Place: Roma cemetery grave 1459

Alfred chased gold and settled in Chiltern, Victoria where his first wife died along with their new son. 

Alfred then married Mary McIntyre and this family travelled in 1874 to Queensland in a covered wagon and Mary bore a child during that very long trip. An infant died on this trip and was buried on roadside. Once they moved to QLD Alfred built a coffin whilst crying in the yard then got on his dray and went back to the child, bought it back to Roma to bury. 

Three daughters stayed in Victoria but Emma and Jonathan Harvey followed Emma's parents to Queensland. 

End of the 1800s the family gave up dairying and combined wheat growing with grape growing. He grew black wine grapes.
 
Alfred had a wine shop in Roma near where Brandts is now situated. 
He bought to Roma the first Mechanical Grape Crusher which was later sold to Bassetts.

A Chiltern blacksmith was making double farrow ploughs by 1880 for vineyard use and Alfred was the first to introduce the FIRST one to the Roma area

Wine was made by the foot method and he used brandy made from the grape seed, as a preservative. After being fermented in casks the wine was bottled and ready to use after 12 months. 

Marketed under the name Dairy Farm. Alf also made apple cider, mede and tended to the farm orchard which included peaches and plum trees. He Also kept bees and made his own honey

Alf was one of the first directors of the Roma Co op Flour mill, which was later burnt down.