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 ‘Werona’ via Bollon  1920s & 1930s

The ‘Werona’ story - written by Kathleen Frazer (nee Stephenson) in 1990.

 My great-grandfather Alexander Frazer selected the land that was to become known as Werona on 17th November 1924. By the start of the 1930’s he and his wife Agnes Jane (nee Stewart), and their daughter Alma, had established a homestead on the property. At this time his daughter Grace then moved from Wyandra  to live with them.


1932 Electoral Record for Bollon.


In the slab-built, zinc-roofed homestead of some lately taken run,

In the tent beside the bankment of a railway just begun,

In the huts on new selections, in the camps of man’s unrest,

On the frontiers of the Nation, live the Women of the West.

from The Women of The West by George Essex Evans.

Agnes Jane Frazer (nee Stewart)

 (Photo taken prior to her husband’s death in 1937)

Alexander Frazer at Werona

Werona wool bales.

In August 1936 my grandfather Alexander William Frazer, (always known as “Sonny”), died in Barcaldine. He was Alexander’s eldest son.

When my great-grandfather Alexander died in the March of the following year, my father Tom was only 14 years old. He was brought home from school and sent to live with on ‘Werona’ with his grandmother and great aunts to help run the property.

Thomas, Alma, Agnes Jane, ’Lex’, and Lily Grace Frazer

On 3rd June 1940 an area of 11,700 acres was resumed to form an additional area to the 16,927 acres of  Werona. This property was named Beneree.

Beneree Homestead

We believe that this set of  Blacksmith’s bellows came from Werona, and that they once belonged to Alexander Frazer.  They were placed on display in the Bollon Heritage Centre after the sale of the property in 1971.

Frazer