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Thomas Bell was a native of Northern Ireland and came to Australia in charge of convicts. He brought his family of three sons and two daughters. His youngest son, Joshua Peter, was three years of age when he arrived in Australia about 1829.
Thomas Bell purchased Jimbour with sheep, cattle and all improvements for the sum of 3,200 pounds sterling. Records of depasturing licences, held by the Mitchell Library in Sydney, state that a license was issued to Thomas Bell on 6 March, 1844 for the period from July, 1843, to 30 June, 1844. In the manuscript the property is called Gimba, in the district of Darling Downs. Subsequently, on 18 October 1844, the Government Gazette shows a licence for "Gimba" having been issued to Thomas Bell on 10 October, 1844.
After purchasing Jimbour, Bell left the management of it to Henry Dennis, who was later drowned in Moreton Bay when the "Sovereign" went down in 1847. After the death of Dennis, Bell he undertook the management himself.
From then on the property was run as a partnership under the firm name of Bell and Sons, of which the partners were Thomas Bell,and his sons, Joshua Peter Bell, John Alexander Bell and Marmaduke Bell.
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Courtesy: Public History Review
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