Vincent Dowling – Pioneer Bushman, Squatter and Explorer
Ian Itter ASRP
Australian Short Run Publishers
Ian Itter ASRP 
VJ Darling is my great grandfather(paternal)
Are there any copies of this book?
Hi Ruth, my grandmother Charlotte Osborne (nee Powell) is the daughter of Susan Powell (nee Dowling). Charlotte lived at Thargomindah Station in her childhood. We have come up here on a road trip..staying at the Station in a cottage.
So we must be related!
Hi, I am very keen to get a hold of a copy of your book on Vincent Dowling. Could you please direct me to where I can purchase?
I’m also keen to see if you perhaps came across any information during your research on the early squatters/explorers that were tied up along the Bulloo (Bulla) with the early Robert Towns holdings in the same area. (NOTE: Robert Towns was a shipping merchant based form Sydney and assisted the financing of the ill fated Leichhardt expedition) I have a feeling that there is a link here and i’m struggling to bring the story together; the era I am paticularly interested in ranges from the beginning of the 1850’s to late 1860’s. There could be a link between these early pioneers DeRinsy/DeRinzy, Keale, WEP Giles, W Glover, GE Curlewis, J Arnold, and i’m trying to find a connection here of some sort which you may have already encountered?
My grandmother was Charlotte Powell, daughter of Susan Dowling. But Robert Towns was also my great great grandfather, through the Osborne side……but I dont know how they interrelate!
Hi, I would really like to touch base with you to discuss some really remarkable things we’ve found here near Thargomindah. I am contactable through the local visitor information centre, they all know who I am as I’ve lived in Thargomindah for the past 25 years.
Hi, We are going home early Monday but happy to keep in touch by email?
I will talk to the tourist centre today. I would think Dowling and Towns would have known each other. I knew Towns had land as well as shipping. He didn’t spend much time in Townsville, despite it being named after him.
Thanks Dale, I’ve sent the VIC a message to let them know you’ll be contacting them. I think that there’s another important reason that Towns came to be tangled up with the Bulloo area and it originates back with the bill fated Leichhardt expedition of 1848. I’d like to talk you through it. Hope to hear from you soon.