Yarralumla was originally two separate land grants, which were used for farming. In 1828 the western side was sold to a Sydney man, Henry Donnison. The second grant was sold to a German, William Klensendorffe in 1839. The western side of Yarralumla belonging to Donnison was named Yarralumla in 1834. Donnison called it this as according to the local people it meant ‘echo’. In 1837 a New South Wales parliamentarian, Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, bought Yarralumla and lived there with his wife. In 1859 Augustus Onslow Manby Gibbes, Murray’s brother-in-law bought Yarralumla. Augustus improved the estate dramatically but in 1881 sold it to Fredrich Campbell. Fredrich built a new 3-story brick house, which later became the basic plan of the Governor-General’s
