Obituaries Australia

Alexander Haley, n.d.

from Pastoral Review, 16 June 1914

The death in Melbourne, at the age of seventy years, of Mr. Alexander T. Haley, of Booberoi Station, N.S.W., removes a member of the second generation of early Victorian pioneers.

Mr. Haley was the eldest son of the late Mr. Cornelius Sharpe Haley, of Lancefield, who arrived in Sydney in 1838, and soon after came to Melbourne, taking up Sugarloaf run in the district of Kilmore, Victoria. His son, the late Mr. Alexander Haley, bought Nelyambo Station, on the Darling, N.S.W., in 1868, and used it as a sheep and cattle station. In 1873 he sold it, and a year later bought Upper Moira and Yeilma, on the Murray, in Victoria, but in 1879, owing to the advance of closer settlement, he found it necessary to sell out, and make a further move to the Lachlan River, in New South Wales, where he bought Booberoi Station, which is situated about 38 miles west of Condobolin.

The late Mr. Haley married Isabel, daughter of the late Mr. Robert Barclay McPherson Stevenson, of Melbourne. His wife survives him, and he leaves four sons, all of whom are engaged in pastoral pursuits in New South Wales. Mr. Haley's death will be greatly regretted, as he was a sterling type of man, and was genuinely admired and respected for his many fine qualities.