Moreauvia was a large Victorian era country house designed by the prominent colonial architect Benjamin Backhouse, built in 1876 for John and Margaret Yates (Beatty) Palmer on a 320 acre (129 Ha) grant of Crown land at Orton Park just south of Bathurst in New South Wales. Margaret's grandmother was Maria (Moreau) Beatty, the granddaughter of an early eighteenth century Huguenot emigrant, Jaques Philippes Moreau. Following on from the passing of John Palmer in 1884, and a visit to Britain by Margaret and one of her daughters, Florence, later to become the wife of Charles Woodford, Moreauvia was put on the market for let or sale during the depression years of the 1890s. However, it appears the property was not sold until 1909. From about 1927 to 1931 it was being advertised as a guest house. The house was largely destroyed by fire in the 1980's, and is no longer heritage listed.

1909 Charles Boyd
1915 Thomas William Aubin
1924 Sydney Hamilton Cutler
c1930 Henry Charles Brewster
c1940 Vivian Charles Moreau Palmer

Sources

• Lawrence, David Russell. “A Naturalist in the Solomon Islands.” The Naturalist and His ‘Beautiful Islands’: Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific, ANU Press, 2014, p. 127. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13wwvg4.9.
• Early (pre 1960) sales indicators - National Library of Australia digital data base:
  The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Sat 15 Feb 1890, Page 19, Advertising "To let or for sale"(https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13759588?searchTerm=Moreauvia#);
  National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 - 1954) Thu 4 Feb 1909, Page 2, "Property Sales" (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/157333356?searchTerm=Moreauvia#);
  The Bathurst Times (NSW : 1909 - 1925) Wed 12 Nov 1913, Page 3, Advertising "For sale" (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111226473?searchTerm=Moreauvia#);
  National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 - 1954) Sat 27 Nov 1915, Page 2, "Sale of a Mansion" (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158158558?searchTerm=Moreauvia#);
  The Bathurst Times (NSW : 1909 - 1925) Wed 4 May 1921, Page 2 "PASSED IN" (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111538912?searchTerm=Moreauvia);
  National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 - 1954) Thu 24 Jan 1924 Page 2 "BATHURST DISTRICT HOLDS ITS OWN" (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/159137601?searchTerm=Moreauvia#);
  National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 - 1954) Thu 5 Oct 1939 Page 5 Advertising "AUCTION SALE" (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164390241?searchTerm=Moreauvia#)
  National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 - 1954) Wed 9 Jan 1952, Page 3, Advertising "For sale by public auction (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/161376340?searchTerm=Moreauvia#)
• New South Wales Repealed Acts https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/repealed_reg/blep1997327/sch3.html