About this objectMary Marsden, daughter of Reverend Samuel Marsden, married John Betts at St John’s Church in Parramatta on 23 September 1830.
Mary received a land grant of 1280 acres in Molong, as a marital incentive from the Government to encourage young married couples and free settling women in the colony to set up a house in the outback. Mary’s grant was called ‘Vale Head’.
Sometime between 1835 and 1839, John built a house at Vale Head called ‘The Roundhouse”. This 'Round House' residence which is said to have been designed from the circular front round house of 'Greystanes,' at Prospect, or that of Bungarrabee House, near Blacktown,
The house was destroyed by a fire and demolished in 1970.
