Etienne L. de Mestre
1 child with Sarah Lamb Helen Ahoy nee Bond nee de Mestre children with his wife Clara Eliza Rowe Etienne George de Mestre Helen Melanie Amy Ramsay nee de Mestre Alice Gertrude Kate Morrice nee de Mestre John Charles Prosper de Mestre Hurtle Edward de Mestre Marie Annette Clare Badgery nee de Mestre Edward MacKenzie de Mestre Nellie Rowe Yates nee de Mestre Unnamed Boy Leroy Livingstone de Mestre
Etienne was born in George Street, Sydney onApril 1832 in his parents home, on the same block of land backing onto the Tank Stream that his mother had been bornyears earlier. He was the third and youngest son of the Frenchman Prosper de Mestre , a Sydney merchant, and Sydneyborn Mary Ann Black . His career was a series of triumphs with a long succession of champion horses passing through his hands. Many of these he bred himself, and many others such as Archer, Tim Whiffler, Chester, Yattendon, Plant and Veno he trained, and even sometimes rode. De Mestres association with George Taylor Rowe of Liverpool, the owner of the celebrated Veno, and the father of the little girl who was to grow up and one day to be his wife and with his good schoolfriend Thomas John Tom Roberts of Jembaicumbene near Braidwood, one of the owners of many champion horses including Mariner, Sailor, Archer, and Tim Whiffler, was at the forefront of a wonderful career of thirty years. He occupied a leading
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