The Langlands

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p>